Flagging oversize load

And if their nice enough to pull over to let you past
it's always directly across from a mailbox or a guardrail that you can't clear. So then you come to a complete stop. Then the blank stare contest begins.

 

I used to drop my trailer at the grain elevator before inherited a better spot. One evening I came into town worn out and in no mood to be messed with, well a 58' beam trailer requires a wide swing. So I swing and make my right, I had a green light so should have been easy. A little snooty chick in a little cavalier pulls way past the white stop bar blocking my turn. So now we have a traffic jam, she refuses to back up, I'm not backing up so I set the brakes and go set on the park bench in front of the bank. She stared at me for a minute the asks "what are you doing" I said waiting on you to move or the cops to show up which ever comes first. She decided to move at that point. I'm sure to this day she thinks I was in the wrong but that's her problem.

 

I had that fight with the wife of the mayor in a small Ohio town on 40. The cops showed up and told me that it was well known that she was a #### because of her husbands position. After the cops forcibly moved her car so I could clear the intersection she was spitting mad about having his job, I handed him my card and told him we had a whole bunch of witnesses that would back him up two weeks later I got a call from the mayor apologizing for his wife. I was 98 long and 15 wide at the time.

 

Good day. I had a situation regarding a load going through Colorado. DOT told me to REMOVE my flags. They don't want the flags on the tractor/trailer because it make your tractor/trailer oversized. ??????? I'm..... moving.... an... oversize.... load........ Duh......
Something about the rule is in the little blue book which they don't issue any more.

The next time I went into Colorado with flags, I didn't get any flack and the officer said I should have them on the truck.

Has anyone run into this before???

 

We're you wide or long?

 

I was 11'6" wide..

 

Sounds like someone dont know or trying to get you busted down the road

 

I don't know about Colorado's oversize laws, but maybe what the LEO meant, not to flag the corner's of the truck and trailer, BUT to flag all four corner's of the oversize cargo load itself. That is what I do here in California.

 

Generally it's the outter extremities of the load. Some states want the truck and trailer also. Like Oregon.

Only oversized i hauled in colorado was long. 70 feet.

 

Exactly. I had the truck/trailer and load flagged and they didn't want the truck/trailer flagged, but, the last DOT encouraged the truck/Trailer.

Funny you should mention California, This load came from California and I had the load/truck/trailer flagged and there wasn't a problem.