Highway safety... and Class 1 Vehicles

[the big wheel]

Tom4$$$$4Tom

" Very Rare farm equipment accidents involving other vehicles...on public roads...indeed! "

Do a little googling before pulling such a statement out of your ass and posting it.

"National statistics recently complied by the Canadian Agricultural Safety Association show collisions between motor vehicles and farm equipment killed more than 150 people since the early 1990s. This study only tracked fatalities. The number of accidents is much higher."

Also remember the majority of heavy farm equipment is only moving five month of a year compared to other industries.

God Bless you!

The accidents I know of it wasn’t the farmers fault impatient drivers pulling out to pass or cutting off a farmer turning is where the accidents occur. Not a lot a farmer does wrong going 20 km down the road. There needs maybe to be more awareness by the public as to patience and right if way to farm equipment. Class 1 training does nothing for this part.

Tom has a point also about challenging the test if you are cape able you shouldn’t have to spend 125 hours training.
Perhaps mandate that you sign up with training school and you can challenge it there if the instructor feels your ready you can then take the test at the gov test place if not brush up on what is required.
Really the 125 hours is only better for the green horns and usually they will need maybe even more than that. The more I think about it the more maybe it should be when the trainer feels you are ready. Training and licensing should not be at the same facility to avoid corruption and free passes.

[GDR]

Tom4$$$$4Tom

" Very Rare farm equipment accidents involving other vehicles...on public roads...indeed! "

Do a little googling before pulling such a statement out of your ass and posting it.

"National statistics recently complied by the Canadian Agricultural Safety Association show collisions between motor vehicles and farm equipment killed more than 150 people since the early 1990s. This study only tracked fatalities. The number of accidents is much higher."

Also remember the majority of heavy farm equipment is only moving five month of a year compared to other industries.

God Bless you!

Whats the point of googling if you can't even figure out what you find, look what you posted. 150 deaths in almost 30years. So 5 deaths a year caused by farm equipment! In a country of 36 million people you don't think that is minimal compared to deaths caused by highway trucks in a year? And besides my assumption would be that those stats are not based on fault either.

Although tragic, accidents are going to happen, thats kinda how come they invented the word!

Insurance premium for your farm use semi is about a 10th of the cost for the same rig used commercially, maybe even less. Actuaries use past loss ratios to calculate premiums, that right there is about the best indication of frequency of farm accidents vs commercial.

[foragefarmer]

GDR + Wheels

As a farmer I have witness farmers moving equipment at dusk when the sunlight is in your eyes not having proper flashers on or having a pickup with it's four ways flashing following the farm equipment.

Take your farmer' hat off and realize this is an issue that we all know happens, which will result in stricter regulations if more common sense is used. Pointing figures at the motorists won't win this battle in the end.

[the big wheel]

GDR + Wheels

As a farmer I have witness farmers moving equipment at dusk when the sunlight is in your eyes not having proper flashers on or having a pickup with it's four ways flashing following the farm equipment.

Take your farmer' hat off and realize this is an issue that we all know happens, which will result in stricter regulations if more common sense is used. Pointing figures at the motorists won't win this battle in the end.

For something like that 1000 dollar fine advertise it everywhere for someone not lit up properly, don’t need 125 hours to figure out put some bulbs in or fix the wiring