Tractor on road / crazy divers / What can be done?

[6MMsteve]

I usually pull over and let people pass when I'm driving my tractor down the road..I have a roll guard so I also use the SB ..people r going places in a hurry these days..so be careful be safe

 

[markT]

I’m not sure of the law about blocking. I would think that would be illegal I wouldn’t do it.. The issue yesterday was two d$m fools passed me and didn’t give a crap about on coming traffic. Probably had to get to “da club.”
My cousins son totaled his car last WE. This happened on isle of palms SC one week after graduation from The Citadel. He said he was looking at his phone. Next week he reports to a base in FL.

 

[Erk]

I was always more worried about the idiots who don’t pass when you pull over as far as possible to let them go by. They back up traffic and cause a bad situation. If a semi can go by ay 60 miles per hour you should be able to squeeze your little damn car through there. Rant over. Edk

 

[Texas10]

Here in Texas, on roads labeled Farm to Market (FM1234) or Rural Route (RR1234) assign right of way to farm vehicles. Very few people moving into Texas from out of state are aware of that, and many bring their bad driving habits with them also. They tend to get a very expensive 'splaining after causing a wreck.

 

[abishai]

When I have to move the old tractor, I do it before 5 am. If you are the guy doing 14 in a 55, You may in fact be the ass hole.

 

[okie]

Idiots. Everywhere.--and they vote!! I live in Oklahoma of all places you would think people would know how to deal with tractors/equipment. Every fall I have to contact the highway patrol to escort me to my fields to plant--they dont mind and I feel "safer" doing it this way. When I was a kid, it was no problem. Now I have to do it this way. It is very rural here. The stupidity amazes me.

 

[okie]

Sometimes it just isn't practical to remove the head from a combine when there's only a short distance between fields and most cars will pull to the shoulder of the road to give the combine room to pass. That's a great thing except when they stop directly across from a mailbox. Then, the operator is forced to squeeze between the car and the mailbox. Most people in cars have no idea.

Amen

 

[GaryL1959]

What county in S.C. are you in Mark?

 

[hogpatrol]

I'm surprised no one has brought up bike riders, the ones with spandex and helmets. In my neck of the woods, they're on double yellow line roads with no shoulders where a lot traffic is usually moving 45 to 50. I just shake my head at how what is probably an intelligent person either having no common sense are think they own the road. Usually it only takes one close call and the bike is off to Craig's List.

 

[GaryL1959]

I'm surprised no one has brought up bike riders, the ones with spandex and helmets. In my neck of the woods, they're on double yellow line roads with no shoulders where a lot traffic is usually moving 45 to 50. I just shake my head at how what is probably an intelligent person either having no common sense are think they own the road. Usually it only takes one close call and the bike is off to Craig's List.

I started to bring up the bicycle riders...I'd 100 times rather be behind a tractor doing 14 in a 55 than a herd of dam bicycles that WILL NOT get out of the way. I see signs that have a picture of a bicycle and says "Share the road", don't see anywhere it says to give them the road.
My opinion, if the bicycles are on a state maintained road, they should be required to havea minimum of liability insurance, be tagged and registered, and pay road taxes, just have like I have to have to drive my vehicles on a public road.

 

[Jim Hankins]

Porcelain from a spark plug will break a windshield way easier than a piece of gravel...

 

[rockhound78]

You have to give the cyclists here, IIRC, at least 5 ft, and they will ride almost next to the center line. Supposed to be in a line, but they will ride side by side. Some are great people though, but some are opposite.

 

[hogpatrol]

I started to bring up the bicycle riders...I'd 100 times rather be behind a tractor doing 14 in a 55 than a herd of dam bicycles that WILL NOT get out of the way. I see signs that have a picture of a bicycle and says "Share the road", don't see anywhere it says to give them the road.
My opinion, if the bicycles are on a state maintained road, they should be required to havea minimum of liability insurance, be tagged and registered, and pay road taxes, just have like I have to have to drive my vehicles on a public road.

Uber liberal state of Maryland enacted a law/regulation that says bikes can take the entire lane. One has to shake their head at the thought process dreaming that up.

 

[markT]

What county in S.C. are you in Mark?

I’m in southern Greenville SC.
And don’t get me started on bicycles. They don’t pay taxes and want to use roads paid for by gas tax. No I don’t pay taxes on diesel.
All these people moving in here from all over want bike trails and stuff. Drives me nuts.

 

[Macropod]

Had a tailgater follow me for miles on a development road. I'd speed up, so did he, I'd slow down so he could overtake but no, he'd slow down, all the while hanging off my bumper. Went on for ages and I was not slow on the road.
This behaviour stopped when I could see a really nasty, bloated roadkill coming up. I swerved at the last second, he didn't...

The explosion of very rotten gut contents of a very dead kangaroo (I'm in Australia) was very impressive in the rear view mirror. The tailgating stopped after that. Lesson learned.

 

[thejamesd]

Had a tailgater follow me for miles on a development road. I'd speed up, so did he, I'd slow down so he could overtake but no, he'd slow down, all the while hanging off my bumper. Went on for ages and I was not slow on the road.
This behaviour stopped when I could see a really nasty, bloated roadkill coming up. I swerved at the last second, he didn't...

The explosion of very rotten gut contents of a very dead kangaroo (I'm in Australia) was very impressive in the rear view mirror. The tailgating stopped after that. Lesson learned.

One day I had a kid tailgating me, right on my butt I was driving my full sized pickup, he was in a small truck. Up ahead I saw a huge dead coon so, knowing he couldn't see it I swerved at the last minute and ran it over he must have thought I was trying to miss something so he also swerved too, the look on his face was priceless as he ran over it !

 

[338 dude]

I started to bring up the bicycle riders...I'd 100 times rather be behind a tractor doing 14 in a 55 than a herd of dam bicycles that WILL NOT get out of the way. I see signs that have a picture of a bicycle and says "Share the road", don't see anywhere it says to give them the road.
My opinion, if the bicycles are on a state maintained road, they should be required to havea minimum of liability insurance, be tagged and registered, and pay road taxes, just have like I have to have to drive my vehicles on a public road.

I live off the Natchez trace Highway in Tennessee a beautiful scenic road with many bicyclists and it is illegal to pass them without going into the other lane completely there have been many accidents

 

[markT]

I am guilty of administering driving lessons all the time. Dead animals, pot holes, stopped cars work great on tail gaters

 

[Downhill]

I am guilty of administering driving lessons all the time. Dead animals, pot holes, stopped cars work great on tail gaters

And the 100 pound piece of 18 wheeler tread laying on its edge. Very effective tailgater lesson.