Re: Highway Patrol on Donut Patrol

Posted by Wayne on April 05, 2004 at 21:07:45 from (205.188.116.78):

In Reply to: Highway Patrol on Donut Patrol posted by Rauville on April 04, 2004 at 21:25:17:

Doing field service on equipment, as well as simply doing alot of driving, I see dangerous things done all the time, as well as seeing cops on the road drive right by obvious, serious violations. Like many posts seemed to agtree most are too busy writing the easy tickets for seatbelt violations than actually being a police officer and trying to keep the roads safe for everybody as opposed to keeping you (and your insurance company I suppose) safe from you. Heck even if it isn't "their job" to stop the guy they are "law enforcement" and they do have radios to notify the right "law enforcement" officer to do what they can't. As far as binding a load, I don't care if it's legal to haul a piece of equipment not bound down, it's just plain stupid and dangerous. Just because a vehicle is tracked doesn't mean it won't move on a trailer, in fact it's more likely to move than a wheeled vehicle. The tracks are good in soft ground where they can distrubute the weight over the full pad and get a bite with the grousers. When sitting on a trailer the only point of contact is on the grousers. A wheeled vehicle is gonna have a much larger amount of material in contact with the bed of the trailer than the crawler, as well as having a rubber surface that at is gonna have a larger holding power from friction than a small sliver of metsl. Imagine the crawler setting there, in effect it's just setting on a bunch of little rails,just like a person on ice skates, just waiting for the one little thing that makes it start shifting. Once it does, it's all over but the shouting, and hopefully nobody gets injured.
Everybody is entitled to their own opinion, but in the end it's not really a matter of what's legal or illegal, it's a matter of what is safe for the other vehicles that are sharing the road...Just my .02

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