The Association of Equipment Manufacturers has three tips to keep you safe on the road during harvest season.
AEM’s Curt Blades says that all rural drivers should be aware, be predictable and be patient, this harvest season. And Blades adds that applies to everyone, saying, “we all need to recognize that everyone has to go down these same roads as safely as possible.”
A recent study from the University of Iowa Great Plains Center for Agricultural Health found that higher speed roads, and roads with limited visibility, such as narrow, hilly, or curvy roads, have a higher instance of traffic accidents between motor vehicles and farm equipment. Their study also found that 30% of these accidents occurred in urban zip-codes. Maximizing the safety of farmers in their equipment has also been a priority of the Association of Equipment Manufacturers, and that extends to keeping drivers on the road safe as well.
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