No injuries reported in pea combine accident on Route 98

Tis the season folks, these machines are enormous and they're on the move 24-7 this time of the year all over western NY. I had to get entirely off the road with all 4 wheels on the shoulder as 3 of them passed in the other direction being led by nothing more than a pickup truck with its flashers going & headlights on. No "Oversize Load" signs or any warnings at all for that matter on the "escort" to warn oncoming traffic of what's coming.

Be careful, especially on the back roads! It appears the public's safety isn't very high on the "poor farmer's" priority list.

Howard, I want to thank you! I awoke at 3am and noticed a state trooper outside my yard, flashers going, blocking 98 heading south! With no clue what was going on I logged on to the Batavian hoping there was something to ease my mind! Because you chose to report this I was able to go back to bed with no worries, thank you!

Ten years ago I was T-boned and my truck was totaled at 6 o'clock in the morning at Rt 237 and Griswold road by an enormous Stieger tractor that was north bound on rt 237running in near darkness without any lights. Against a darken back ground of trees I never saw him coming until he hit me on the passenger side and crushed the truck's side and cab. Luckily I wasn't hurt except for my pocket book.

I was ticketed for "insecure cargo" with a dump trailer load of gravel once because dust was blowing out the top of the trailer back when I was driving truck. As we were sitting on the side of route 33 just east of route 237 a farm truck went by with silage blowing out of it all over the road and when I asked the DOT cop why that was allowable, without hesitation he said... "farmers are exempt from NY State DOT regulations".

Remember that the next time you see one of those overloaded old farm trucks barreling down the road... since they're exempt from the DOT safety checks too you'd better hope for your sake that the "poor farmer" has some form of a maintenance program.