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Tractors on the road???
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Posted by Dobbin Nobbin on July 17, 2007 at 02:40:48 from (4.229.195.150):
Many years ago, I was driving a tractor with a rear mounted cultivator, down a paved 2 lane highway, I was at a point where the road had very little shoulder and had to drive mostly on the pavement. It was very close to dark as a car came up from the rear, extremely fast. Luckily a driveway was handy and I managed to pull into it just as the car passed at high speed. I believe people would have died had that driveway not been handy.
I say this because normaly I tend to drive a tractor as much off the road as I can get because I believe very seriously in driving defensively and always keep an eye open for others.
Many have said I am wrong and I have a right to use the highway as much as anyone else and I should drive a tractor on the highway the same way I would drive a car. What say you?
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