burnt
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Heading out to town the other night on an errand with a couple of neighbors. Soybean harvest in full swing. See lights coming toward me and slow down with my lights on low beam, get over tighter to my side with shallow drop-off ditches on both sides of the road.
Can't see much because of the on-coming truck's headlights when buddy in the front seat screams out "TRUCK!".
Here the doofuses taking soys off just up the road from us had parked a tandem truck on the road in the dark with no lights on. Dark blue box and body, no reflectors of any kind. Practically invisible, especially with the headlights of the other truck blacking everything else out.
Hard brakes, hard turn - we just missed going under the back of that truck. Stopped beside the other truck, now pulled over onto the side of the road to load with beans, and had a few words with the outfit.
Farmers are pretty important to this country, but doing beyond-stupid things like blocking roads during harvest is totally unacceptable. And most of the big outfits around here seems to think they can do it. It's not uncommon to have to wait however long it takes to unload a grain buggy full of beans or corn before they get off the road. One outfit that usually runs 3 combines will line up two buggies at a time, stopping traffic. People are getting PO'ed.
It's against the law, but the cops don't seem to want to touch them. Now it's time to change before someone gets injured or killed.
If you are doing this, think about the liability issues you are going to have to deal with when someone hits your truck or machinery - it won't be pretty or profitable . . .
Can't see much because of the on-coming truck's headlights when buddy in the front seat screams out "TRUCK!".
Here the doofuses taking soys off just up the road from us had parked a tandem truck on the road in the dark with no lights on. Dark blue box and body, no reflectors of any kind. Practically invisible, especially with the headlights of the other truck blacking everything else out.
Hard brakes, hard turn - we just missed going under the back of that truck. Stopped beside the other truck, now pulled over onto the side of the road to load with beans, and had a few words with the outfit.
Farmers are pretty important to this country, but doing beyond-stupid things like blocking roads during harvest is totally unacceptable. And most of the big outfits around here seems to think they can do it. It's not uncommon to have to wait however long it takes to unload a grain buggy full of beans or corn before they get off the road. One outfit that usually runs 3 combines will line up two buggies at a time, stopping traffic. People are getting PO'ed.
It's against the law, but the cops don't seem to want to touch them. Now it's time to change before someone gets injured or killed.
If you are doing this, think about the liability issues you are going to have to deal with when someone hits your truck or machinery - it won't be pretty or profitable . . .