Tractors on the roads again

[buildersmate]

Summer's here, the farmers are busy bringing in the harvest. But most of the tractors and all the combines am seeing up and down the public roads don't have licence plates to be on the roads. Which presumably means they don't have road fund either. How does that work then?

[Ethel]

Tractors used for agricultural purposes have not had to pay road tax since April 2001.

[buildersmate]

Ah well, learn something new every day.

But I trust they do have to have 3rd party insurance to trundle up rural roads at high speeds?

[gina32]

but they still have to display a free road tax disc

[Ethel]

They are not allowed to go above 20mph on the public highway.

[jno]

I've never found myself behind a high-speed tractor, funnily enough; they all seem to do a stately 10mph.

[Toureman]

You two above should live here on Anglesey, not many tractors go under 40mph, one farmer boasted his would do 50mph, it's quite hard to pass them sometimes.

[buildersmate]

My sentiments entirely, Toureman - and for free as well.