Wind farm traffic $5000 fine

Thats for driving down the wrong county rd. See it all the time. Usually we stage up somewhere and they come to get us to keep us out if trouble

 

We deliver to a windmill farm in Burlington,KS. They sent a map with what roads we had to stay on and if we got off the route they would not use our company anymore. So our company told us that it was an immediate termination of our employment if this happened.

 

What is wind farm traffic and why a 5,000 dollar fine?

 

Those signs are mostly related to the trucks that haul the blades and parts to build those giant wind turbines. Making a wrong turn with one of these is an entire ordeal since you can't just find a lot big enough to turn around in, so I figure the steep fines are there to encourage drivers to double check their routing.
See them all the time going up and down the 80 in Illinois and Iowa. Makes the overhang on a 53-footer seem nonexistant!

 

That's the company I started pulling blades with. Good times.

 

Yep. They give you directions and the phone number to the site rep.

YET, there are so many drivers who

-won’t communicate with the site rep
-won’t trip plan in the slightest
-won’t read their OSOW permits.
-hand a permit to a Braindead pilot car and follow a pilot car as the gospel truth. And that Braindead pilot car who couldn’t cut the mustard at CR England will set their GPS and follow it blindly. After all, when SHTF, it’s your ticket, not theirs.

Stupid should hurt.

 

Sometimes there’s only one way to get to their stop. Any other route will not work. They plan it ahead of time.