Tractor in front of me was pulling a chopper and wagon. Couldn't see the operator, or the cab of the tractor for that matter due to the width of the equipment behind him.
He slows, pulls to the right on a straight stretch of state highway.
It's across from a restaurant parking lot, and the pavement for that lot is seamless with a road that comes out there. I don't drive that stretch every day, so it's easy to not realize there's road.
As I start to pass, he starts to make a left turn.
In hindsight, I can understand his actions -- he slowed and he pulled to the right in order to make the turn given how the intersection was setup. My actions, IMHO, were also reasonable -- someone slowing and pulling to the edge of the right shoulder along a straight stretch of road normally is someone letting traffic pass.
Perhaps some of this is requirements for things like turn signals that are grossly inadequate for today's volume of traffic. Just because something was engineering appropriate 50 years ago doesn't mean it still is.
Many of the roads around me -- interstates included -- don't need new roads or widening as much as they need (or recently needed until fixed) improvements like sight lines, straightening curves, and turning lanes simply for the reason that there's more traffic and more chances of conflicts. I think a lot of ag equipment I've seen is similar in that they need to update them because there's an increasing risk of conflicts simply due to more traffic traveling longer distances on better quality (i.e. higher speed) roads.
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