Farmers moving equipment over roads and rural mail carriers face a lot of the same kinds of hazards. To accomplish what they do requires some unconventional driving and does not always allow them to leave a clear lane for ordinary traffic. I've inspected any number of rural routes over the years and had to drive several in a pinch a few times. One in particular I remember, was about eight miles of a two-lane state road, nothing more than the narrowest of a gravel berm on either side, ditches in close, curves, hills, you name it. Every stop along that sretch would leave the carrier's vehicle hanging out into the travel lane. And just to make it interesting, we had three oil suppliers hauling fuel between two terminals over that road and their traffic just about tripled in the winter. They could clip you if they had oncoming traffic and you were hanging out, and you almost had to close your heyes and hold your breath to pull back out onto the road after a stop, and hope that one of them didn't come around the curve and nail you. On that stretch, we used the rule that you don't pull out while you can see oncoming traffic.
Point, bottom line, is that every situation of that sort, whether delivering mail or moving equipment is going to be different every time. There's drivers out there who can't puzle out how to adjust their speed to merge onto an interstate even with a 1000-foot get-on ramp. I sure don't trust them to be able to respond to an unusual situation on a country road.
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Today's Featured Article - History of the Cockshutt Tractor - by Danny Bowes (Dsl). The son of a very successful Toronto and Brantford, Ontario merchant, and himself quite an entreprenuer, James G. Cockshutt opened a business called the Brantford Plow Works in 1877. In 1882, the business was incorporated to become the Cockshutt Plow Company. Along with quality built equipment, expedious demand and expansion made Cockshutt Plow Works the leader in the tillage tools sector of the farm equipment industry by the 1920's.
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