sugar beet season

[riverview]

lucky more people don't die a lot of idiots driving overloaded semis that couldn't pass a cdl test if they had to.

 

[guywhofishes]

Farm use. Untouchable typically 

got the scales out

just north of Fargo, 200 yds from the MN border headed east

 

[fj40]

Beautiful dash there, guy.

 

[lunkerslayer]

got the scales out

just north of Fargo, 200 yds from the MN border headed east

Thanks for sharing guywhoposts I like it when famers get nailed for not getting the proper load restriction permits.

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Ps aka meeloshing without permits

 

[AR-15]

They will just let him go, he's a poor farmer

 

[lunkerslayer]

Maybe some but not everyone will some farmers will get fined, does the driver have to post a bond right on the spot if found to be over weight. I know that some P.O. can make the truck unload before driving off.

 

[PrairieGhost]

Thanks for sharing guywhoposts I like it when famers get nailed for not getting the proper load restriction permits.

I do too, but I wouldn't care so much if it wasn't that they blame hunters for tearing up "their" roads in the fall. Overloaded on gravel roads tears them up bad.

 

[BrokenBackJack]

I do too, but I wouldn't care so much if it wasn't that they blame hunters for tearing up "their" roads in the fall. Overloaded on gravel roads tears them up bad.

Especially when wet.

 

[guywhofishes]

all the trucks around here are Transystems, LLC. That isolates any risk, etc. to an LLC vs Crystal Sugar or the farmers I would imagine. Trucking heavy crops on slickery roads is fraught with liability risk.

 

[Brian Renville]

In full swing over here, be careful out there fellas!

 

[feather_duster]

The windshield guys love beet season. Big grip mud tires can sling some giant rocks.

Appt monday for a big ass chip :;:lame

 

[Norske]

Overloaded to the point of spilling isn't covered by overweight permits.
The lack of CDL permits keeps me away.

 

[Jigaman]

hauled my last load saturday morning. My farmer got1/3 of his acres off during pre-harvest so harvest went fast for us with the nice weather. Glad to be done!

 

[Colonel Angus]

Got done yesterday morning with 98 hours. Not totally unscathed this year...had a brake fire that ruined a tire, had another tire blow out, the beet cart backed into my trailer and put a ding in it. I did manage to miss 4 close calls with the elusive and evidently nearly extinct white tail deer, got close enough to a skunk that it got one of my tires all stinky. The traffic this year was much more respectful and only got about run off the road once by another truck. So all in all a pretty quiet year of driving and glad it's over.

 

[SDMF]

There was a Semi from Ponsford MN eastbound on '94 near Jamestown yesterday afternoon hauling either grain or beans that was doing his level best to piss off every driver within 1-mi of him. Drove in the left lane not quite passing another semi for 2mi. Put all his left-side tires off the concrete throwing dust and rocks multiple times as he nosed ahead of the semi next to him and finally caught the wind on his nose. Decided to stay in the left lane for another 3mi to catch another semi doing 2MPH slower than him and did the same peek-a-boo bullshit and drive off the road stuff when he passed that one too. I'd guess the guy was ~70 and when I finally passed he looked to be in WAY over his head when I glanced over and saw him sweating like a carnal sinner in confession. He drove off the left side and over-corrected almost hitting the semi next to him so many times I almost called him in for suspected DUI.

 

[Brian Renville]

Can a guy go to Fairview and get a couple dozen? Deer love em!

Probably. At the same time there is all you can handle laying on the gravel roads and ditches and finished field. Have at them.