Tractors

[weecalf]

While going about my business today .Had to take bus .now two mile from the town I was going there was a dramatic slowing of traffic .last two miles took 25minutes because of a slow moving tractor. .The wardens in the same town have been booking cars for inches over white lines and staying minutes over the allotted time .So are traffic wardens just another way of taxing the motorist .When the traffic disrupters on the roads are not held accountable

[Barmaid]

But the tractors are not acting in contravention of any local byelaws (such as parking in marked bays or overstaying time).

Considerate tractor drivers pull over and let other vehicles pass; have an escort vehicle if with a wide load and take the mud off their wheels when they leave a field to enter a public road (this is what I was taught when I was driving tractors).

[Zacs-Master]

You seem to be asking two, rather confused, questions in one.

Yes, traffic wardens are another way of taking the motorist. If you don't play by he rules.

Tractors & tax. You seem to be suggesting hat slow moving vehicles are taxed more. Am I correct?

[vulcan42]

Do you pay tax on tractors?

[Zacs-Master]

Vulcan
Vehicles used just for agriculture, horticulture and forestry
This includes tractors, agricultural engines and light agricultural vehicles used off-road. It also includes ‘limited use’ vehicles used for short journeys (not more than 1.5 kilometres) on the public road between land that’s occupied by the same person.

[Zacs-Master]

Sorry, should have said, this was under exempt vehicles.

[vulcan42]

Thanks Zacs, I must assume the one I followed last week for 12 miles has paid up. :o)

[Buenchico]

As Suffolk is at the heart of the UK's principal wheat-growing area, we get lots of agricultural vehicles clogging up our road especially at this time of year, when harvesting is under way. (Harvesting is a 24 hour operation for many farmers around here, with the noise of combine harvesters coming across the fields right through the night).

However most people here accept that efficient agriculture is vital to our nation's economy (and to keeping food prices down in the shops). You hear very few people complaining about tractors and agricultural vehicles on the roads.

The biggest traffic problem here comes about when a large motor cruiser, built many miles away from here, needs to be launched. The only hoist in the UK which is big enough to get the vessels into the water is in Ipswich, so the boats have to travel by road along the A14. But where the A14 bypasses our town the bridges are too low for the boats, so they all end up trying to squeeze down our narrow High Street instead (while staff from BT and the power company try to get all of the overhead cables out of the way). We end up with power cuts and general traffic chaos!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ianpressphotography/5782365444/
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/ianpressphotography/4437122645/

[Maydup]

Its harvest time For Funks Sake!

Unless you'd prefer us to import all of our food, our wheat and our barley.

[Ellipsis]

Have tractors got bigger lately? A couple of times this year I've encountered them where they completely fill both sides of a two-way country road (a bit bigger than a "lane"), where anything coming the other way simply has to stop, reverse and get out of the way. In past years it's been tight but normally enough room to squeeze past.

[vulcan42]

I realise it's harvest time but did think it a little strange when having followed the tractor for 12 miles we came to a roundabout and the driver returned the way he had just come.