Why are allot of farms on 10 ton roads?

I know a few farmers as the in laws are. Gatherings with neighbors and such.
Not one of them care. What does happen is suburbanites want a rural lifestyle and go buy a farmhouse.
They then demand stuff like paved roads, blight ordinances, smell ordinances and other stuff like that.

 

I run for the oil field as well. We are warned to stay on the designated "turn by turn" route to a rig or frack site. Frequently we travel weight restricted roads and bridges rated as little as 6 tons. It's my understanding that local municipalities will cut a deal with the oil company that sets the routing and the oil company pays for damage and upkeep (such as having a road grader on hand to regrade dirt roads that get almost impassable after heavy rains).

 

First off what kind of local police officer or sheriff would write you up a ticket cause those farms need your service to pick up milk for processing, it'd be kinda like allowing companies to build cars then fining the owners cause there using fuel that pollutes the atmosphere. I'm also wondering why the roads are rated 10 ton for? normally the weight restrictions are put up in certain city streets to stop heavy vehicles going down them.

 

What do you mean you asked what your clearance is?

Don't be lazy, get the tape measure out and measure it for yourself. That way you know for sure.

 

Generally you're exempt if required to make a delivery. Simply shorter don't cut it. If you have a choice of 1 mile back to the highway or 10 to another highway that will save you 30 miles they don't care, the correct answer was 1 mile back to the highway. They generally cannot make it impossible to access a site, but they don't have to make it cheap. You have to watch that. A farm hand might say oh yeah, just go this way but the farmer didn't tell you that, he told you to come in the other way and paid for you to do so. Yeah, trucks do it all the time but you're the one that got caught.

 

Fairly certain that most road restrictions are null if the customer is having you come to their location to pickup/deliver so long as you are using the shortest route to their location and leaving the same way you came in.

Here in Manitoba, we not only have weight restricted routes (RTAC, A1 and B1) but spring restrictions on top of this, limiting axle weights to 90% and 65% during spring thaw. Yet, if you have to deliver to the customer down the 65% route, you can go down it so long as you return the same way you went in.

 

Not rap, but uses a tractor as a metronome...that has to count for something:

 

Exactly. Yuppies show up and ruin everything.

 

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