Sum People Just Can't Wait to Pass

Adirondack case guy · May 5, 2010

Followed this pair of tractors on US20 Near W.Winfield NY yesterday. The guy in the pu in front of me passed me on a blind crest, as I was slowing for them. Then he rode the yellow line.Just after I took this pic. he passed . An 18 wheeler appeared coming the other direction, and thanks to everyone else he squeeked through. At the next stop light I was on his tail again, because the tractor drivers moved over as soon as there was room and visibility.

DH in Carolina · May 5, 2010

The problem today is too many people are in too big of a hurry to get nowhere and end up getting someone else hurt or killed. They don't think tractors or farm machinery should be on the road. You must have been visiting somewhere as you have a visitor's permit on your dash. Take care DH

Erik Ks farmer · May 5, 2010

This is a serious problem, in addition to those who ignore or don't recognize hand signals. Can't count the number of times I have been passed as I attempted to turn after signaling.

1970-1655 · May 5, 2010

Fatality near here yesterday. A car was turning right and trafic was coming the other way. The first car behind slowed also. The third in line was impatient and decided to pass, hitting the oncoming vehicle head-on. Then, some people are trying to blame the one turning or the car slowing behind it. This kind of driving is common any more.

Anonymous-0 · May 5, 2010

The amount of stupidity I see on the roads lately is astounding. I move a lot of Machinery on both NYS RT7 and NYS RT8. My favorite is when people pass me with oncoming traffic. It is like racing 3 wide sometimes. Every time I have someone come up behind me i get VERY tense. I tell all my guys to expect people to do the dumbest thing possible and be ready for evasive action. I definitely have all my lights, flashers and turn signals working. The turn signals get ignored by people most of the time though.

landlord7012 · May 5, 2010

Had a 17 to 18 year old kid impatiently following my hay wagon last summer. No load so I could see him. Flashers on so when I was getting ready to turn left into my property I stuck my hand straight out not wavering one bit. I get 3 feet across the center line and hear this kid lay on his horn steady. I looked back to see he was about to pass when I turned. Well' he's sitting next to my wagon (no impact) so I get out and ask if he knows what hand signals are. He says he thought I meant he should pass. I says "On a bridge?" (my drive is 50 ft from the bridge rail). And "this (waving) means pass, your lucky you missed the chance to by me a new wagon". Kid mumbled something and got in his car. I took my sweet time finishing my turn after he moved.

There's also a neighbor girl who knows who I am and exactly where I'm taking my equipment but insists on riding my tail everytime and beeping as she passes. Somedays I just love being a road hog! one of these days her dad will get a call from me. Better me though that the Sheriff or hospital.

Good driving,
Bill

Don-Wi · May 5, 2010

I'm always amazed at the stuidity out there. When I'm hauling wagons of hay or chopper boxes and need to turn left, I prefer to do it at night when i can see headlights behind me. Then I atleast know what to expect. The hwy. in front of the farm is busy enough I usually have to come to a full stop before making the turn, which helps too.

Some still try to pass, but as long as we have working lights and SMV signs, we're doing nothing wrong.

Donovan from Wisconsin

Dave Sherburne NY · May 5, 2010

I haul manure with this outfit, and can't see anything behind it. I am on the road for 2 minutes from the farm to the field. I've been passed on the right, passed on the left on a double solid they pass when another vehicle is coming even been passed by the Encon police on a double solid. Woman was passing me on a curve just as I was turning left to go into the field. I didn't see her till she was right along side. She used all of the shoulder, and made it. The worst was a couple of weeks ago when I was turning into a field on the right side of the road double solid line right before the crest of a hill. The driveway setup causes me to cross the road and make a U turn into the field. Some guy decided to pass just as I started to cross to make the U turn. He barely stayed out of the ditch. But he made it too. I always check and clean the rear lights every load, and have to plan which direction to unload according to the wind. On the county roads I run right down the center of the road unless I meet a vehicle. This tractor has Duals on it year around, and more than fills the whole lane. A fellow in the next town north uses an articulated JD and a triple axle tanker and he sometimes has to go right thru Hamilton I understand the village tells him what street he must use.

jared in wi · May 5, 2010

I know what you mean. After two close calls when turning aftier i used a had signal, i decided to stop signaling. when i make a left turn, i will ride the yellow line, or go right down the middle of the road if i can.

on my way home from work, i sometimes run in to a local farmer who is hualing on the road. I usually know where he is going and it is not that far, so i just follow behind with my hazards on.

Cas · May 5, 2010

It is not only people that can't wait to pass.
Ten years I was going up a small knoll with a
White 2-155 with a full manure spreader. Guy
came over the knoll the towards me. He lost
control and knocked my front end half off.
bounced off the back tire. Went up a bank and
down into a creek. Car was totaled and driver
hurt pretty bad. I just sat in the cab and
wondered why I did not feel hardly anything.
Saw the my front tire go up in the air and
in a nearby field.
His insurance company wanted me to buy him
another car and pay medical bills. He didn't
get a car and I don't know who paid his medical
bills.
This almost like a war on the road. Personally,
my experience is if the equipment is heavy
enough you are quite safe. But, financially I
don't know if the farmers can win this war.

RoyIA · May 5, 2010

If you can't see behind you, you should get a set of mirrors so you can see. If you turn left and can't see if anyone is about to pass, you are probably contributing to the accident if one happens.

Nancy Howell · May 5, 2010

Living in Dallas we see all kinds of road stupidity. Just when we think we"ve seen every stupid stunt someone can pull driving a vehicle, we get a new surprise.

We see people make a 45 degree right turn from the far left lane and shoot through 4 lanes of traffic to exit, just missing the crash barrels. We"ve see this so many times its not a surprise anymore.

Anonymous-0 · May 6, 2010

I would never think to use a camera or camera phone during an event like this one. I think I would be concentrating on the traffic and the road. But then I'm old as dirt.

Nebraska Cowman · May 6, 2010

My farm is on a busy highway posted for 65 mph. I have gone to driving well out in my lane because if I drive partially on the shoulder cars (and trucks)pass me without slowing down regardless of oncoming traffic. I don't like that.

Gene Stevens · May 6, 2010

Drive on 635 a lot? Quit that one several years ago. I now stay on 287 to I 30 and go across.. Have you noticed the difference in drivers from Ft Worth and Dallas?

ericlb · May 6, 2010

its stupid people these days seem to be trained to pass equipment and big trucks no mater what the circumstances, i drive a truck and ive seen them run red lites in town, pass on the right side even when im in the right hand lane and pass me when im wound up to 80 mph, they see a truck and just absolutly must pass it even if they are going to use the next exit or road theyll pass me cut back in and then throw on the brakes to turn and nearly [ so far] get a rig permenantly installed in a certain part of their body, just dont have any brains anymore

old · May 6, 2010

To bad you didn't get a few pictures of him braking the law. If you had then you could have handed it to the cops and the guy might have gotten a ticket for passing on the double lines or some other thing like wreak-less driving which can cause a person to loose there lience

twomen · May 6, 2010

Nancy, I'll second that - I think 1/2 the population of Dallas drives that way - always assume the worst and you're never suprised!

Mike (WA) · May 6, 2010

Had a strange one a few years ago. The Seattle to Portland (STP) Bicycle Run is about 10,000 folks on bicycles every summer, riding the back roads from Seattle to Portland (190 miles). Some do it in one day, most in 2. I was roading a baler home with an Oliver 550, right in the thick of it. Bikes right in front of me (and Ollie's brakes weren't all that great), but the one that was most disturbing was this belligerent looking girl who was riding about a foot from my rear tire. I motioned for her to move over a bit, she just glared. She obviously didn't understand that if she got into that tire, it would have sucked her and her Schwinn right under my rig. Wasn't much I could do, but just concentrate on going straight. I didn't want to make her any madder for fear she would use a hand to flip me off, and wobble into me.

The riders think they own the road that weekend, and resent all the gas-tax-paying folks who dare to try to share it with them.

James Howell · May 6, 2010

Speaking of impatient drivers, years ago I drove our 95 Dodge 4x4 dually to work every day.

As I635 North and I30 West intersect, there is a large, tall "cloverleaf" intersection.

I take the off ramp to I30 West which climbs the highest and is one lane only.

Woman in a small car (probably a Toyota with a stuck gas pedal) passed under the right side of my big truck almost at the peek of the ramp.

Just one of the many reasons I don't want a concealed hand gun permit.

olgentdc · May 6, 2010

Must be related to sum of the damfools we have here in IND....got some stories myself ..old is right, pix could put drivers t-t in the ringer....

504 · May 6, 2010

I am on all sides of this,I have tractors, and I drive a truck for money to keep the farm. The trouble with turn signals on a tractor is too many lights flashing sometimes, it is hard to pick out the signal. I will never wave a car around me, it makes you liable in case of a wreck. We had a woman killed in our driveway 4 years ago passing a tractor and a line of cars in a double stripe zone(pick up head on). What kinda Ts me off was the fact that the farmer(neibor) could have pulled over a 1/2 mile back and let traffic go, he never stopped just went up the road and started planting. Yes the lady who died was wrong but a little bit of courtesy would have prevented the whole mess.

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