Crawford County, Robinson, Illinois | State police are strongly thinking about, and in some areas already, enforcing axle weight limits in Illinois for farm wagons. No recent tickets in my local area, but I remember some meetings not so long ago concerning trucks, where they said wagons were a target. They are issuing tickets for parking on gravel roads next to fields, which makes harvesting possible in wet conditions. Neighbor got a ticket a few years ago when he was unloading across a ditch. A lot depends on how hard-nosed the trooper is, but you cannot really fault a guy for doing his job. The law says it is not legal, but in the past we had a lot of slack given us due to the seasonal nature of harvest and field conditions. I'm guilty, for many years I pulled 1200 bushel behind tractors in three wagons, but finally got a big truck to do almost the same thing legally and much safer. |