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Rapp-Chats
By W. H. Lyne
: Tractors on the Highway
Owner8, why hot Instruct
your tractor driverstoprao
tice a hit of courtesy when on
d»e highway?
Last week 1 was driving west of Washington on 211; caught up with a tractor doing about ; 15 miles per hour just beyond
Mrs. Floyd Compton’s, sounded my horn, the driver looted around momentarily and "kept I merrily on his way. I By the time I reached Ginger l Hill curve a glance in my | rear view mirror showed sev1 eral other cars had caughtI up. f The highway shoulder for a | quarter mile or more was * broad enough for the tractor ^ to have pulled over. Also the i double line or solid yellow | line on my left extended alii most to the Toll House.
Another beep of the horn <r resulted only in another lookf; around on the part of the
driver, who again .held to the h middle of the lane, p How many cars slowed to a •L. snails pace, I don't know. The | thought struck me, ‘which 5. drivers were behind the
wheels of licensed vehicles, S' and which vehicles were burn-H tng road-tax-gasollne?* We all fi realize farmers; help build t; roads, need good *farm-to•4 market* roads, and must at S3 times use these roads for ip: farm machinery; however no p one can afford to be dlscourteous
and monopolize drlv £5 lng space. Then too there is ^ the question of highway safety
.. vehicles tnoving at alow
rates of speed are dangerous, 55 tOO.
2S And .. In mentioning highway Ss safety lets consider another -T situation. Rounded a rightr .hand curve - fleet an approach ping tractor-trailer came Into p view. h He was In place and driving ip. properly, as was I. Next a ST boy on a bike came in sight. He was just off the shoulder b. of the road in loose gravel h, and also approaching but on my right. There was nothing E for me to do but drive be£ tween these two vehicles. S If the front wheel of that boy’s bike had hit a sizeable tz loose stone, there would have h been a 50-50 chance he’d have b fallen on the highway smack in front of my car! £ Even If not at fault, I don’t ;:-want the memory of having mangled or killed anyone.
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