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| Our local paper is published in IL (Danville) and it had a couple articles on your DOT's crackdown on wagons. According to the article(s) DOT considered the towing vehicle as part of the unit (just like on a semi) and weighed it as well. Iheard some rumors of pretty steep fines, one of over $30,000. Also was told that the DOT was giving their officers class on how to determine wagon sizes, seems that some ingenious farmers were putting decals on their wagons for smaller models than what they owned hoping to confuse the DOT.
I can remember back in the '50s & early '60s Indiana had a law requiring farmer tractor to have a license on it if it was operated on a hard surfaced road. I f operated on a gravel road it didn't have to have the plate. At the time we feed cattle & one of our feed lots was on a blacktop road about 2 miles away & we plated the feed wagon tractor. Also hauled grain to 2 elevators, one of which was located on a blactop & used that tractor to hauk grain to that elevator but a different tractor (unplated) to haul to the one that was on a gravel road. Don't know when that law was dropped or it may still be on the books but no longer enforce as it has been years since we plated any tractor even thouh we have to move machinery on a state highway. | |
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Gravity wagons
