Posted by Goose on September 06, 2012 at 18:11:35 from (174.253.140.182):
In Reply to: OT School bus accident posted by omahagreg on September 06, 2012 at 17:25:25:
I live on a gravel road 20 miles west of Lincoln, and, frankly, I feel a helluva lot safer rolling down the Interstate at 75-80 mph than I do driving the gravel roads around our house.
This accident didn't involve farm machinery, but the way farm machinery has grown in size exponentially over the last few years, it's amazing there aren't more serious and fatal accidents on country roads.
There's a stop sign a quarter of a mile south of my house, and just his afternoon when I was coming home on the road with the right-of-way, a huge John Deere MFD tractor with duals on all four corners pulling a 1,000 bushel grain cart first ignored the stop sign, then locked up his brakes, and slid half way across the road in front of me. I slid to a stop beside him.
I can sit on my deck all day and watch all manner of harvest equipment, including semis, blow through the stop sign like it wasn't even there. And there are trees blocking visibility in one direction.
If a trucker needs a special permit to haul this huge equipment down a public highway, why aren't farmers required to have a permit to drive down public roads that are usually narrower than a highway? I know, that's a subject no politician in his right mind will touch. Theyll wait until things get totally out of control before they do anything. And I have nothing against farmers, I was one myself, once.
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