Posted by casered on December 02, 2007 at 11:14:14 from (71.181.174.210):
In Reply to: Farm Traffic Laws? posted by hayray on December 02, 2007 at 04:10:28:
I personally have not been pulled over yet but I know of some people who have for things that I think are ridiculous. Here in PA a neighbor of ours was recently pulled over pulling a forage wagon behind his pickup. The cop was just giong to give him a warning about his hitch setup until he recognized the driver from a recent class that a local farmer held with a D.O.T. cop on the law and what is required on the road. Instead he got a hundred and some dollar ticket. The law supposedly reads that any piece of equipment behind a "vehicle" such as a pickup or farm truck must have a solid hitch such as a ball or pintle hitch and cannot be pulled by a hitch pin only. If it is behind a tractor a pin is fine but not behind a truck.
In my personal opinion I think this is one stupid law. What are you supposed to do if say you had just bought the implement at an auction and were towing it home? Take a welder with you and adapt a hitch onto the implement before towing maybe? I agree some laws are good but then some such as this example are out in left field to me. Just my .02 cents.
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