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I heard that Barney has been de-funded, is it true??

Geo-TH,In

Geo-TH,In

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How many country boys that stay off the Interstate get pulled over by Barney for any violation other than speeding or turn signals not working?

I'm 72. I have never gotten a speeding ticket, seat belt violation, never been stopped for anything related to not having a secure load or being overloaded. I don't run interstates.

Please share your experiences you have had with Barney on country roads or hauling your harvest to town.

What Barney did to Commercial carries, running interstates don't apply here. Only country boys, country roads, hauling hay or grain to market.

I'm not advocating unsafe practices, I just want to know how many have been Stopped by Barney and for what violation,
 
Got pulled over for not tarping silage corn. He drove us back to the farm in his patrol car to get the tarps. Guess he knew the boss. Lol.
 
About half a century ago, as a teen, I spent the summers in a town in CT that had a lot of well to do NYC summer homes. The town used to be policed by a resident state trooper. The town finally decided to have a full time police so they hired a Barney who thought he was going to clean up the town. He was smart enough to not harass the adults because they largely were political fund contributors but the teens, in their hot rods were fair game (back then the teens wouldnt cry to their parents over these things). When he would stop us (seemed just for the hell of it) he would always have his hand on his gun and you just knew he wanted to stick it in your face to make you pi$$ in your pants. Back then they still needed probable cause to search a car. He was convinced the teens were hiding drugs. He finally came up with this great idea; he got this nasty temperament German Sheppard from the pound to ride along with him proclaiming it was a trained drug sniffing K9 police dog. When he would stop the kids he would get out with the dog which wanted to rip their throats out and he was now the hero cop saving the teens from dog justice. After the dog calmed down it, like many dogs, would sniff the kids crotch. This was the signal that they had drugs on them so it was a full on search. After a while this group of kids (slightly younger than me) got together and tailed this cop to learn his habits. They found that he would always stop for lunch at the local diner to brown nose with the town council that would always be there. Like any dog owner he would leave the dog in the cruiser with the windows cracked. One day the teens were waiting for him and while inside the diner tossed a piece of stake in the car shot up with a couple of tabs of LSD. Some passers by notified the cop that his K9 was going crazy. He comes out and cant do anything with the dog so in front of everyone, including the council, pulls out his service revolver and blows the dogs brains out. Now the town has a cruiser filled with bullet holes and dog brains and a populace asking why this cop was transporting such a dangerous and unstable animal let alone the gun play. Needless to say his contract was not renewed.
 
20 years ago a friend was hauling a load of hay piled in a high-side kicker wagon back home from a field I was baling, with his truck that had a NJ Farm Use plate on it, in the afternoon. Newly-posted, just-graduated trooper pulls him over and writes him up for not having the load properly restrained and towing an unregistered trailer. So off to municipal court on stated date. Judge at the time was known to be farmer friendly. He admonished the trooper because A: It is legal in this state for a Farm Use truck to tow a farm wagon during daylight, B: farm wagons don't require registrations, C: hay wagons with high sides properly restrain a load by design. He then told the trooper, who was from the urban eastern part of the state, to familiarize himself with normal practices in this rural part of the state. So ended up just being time wasted.
 
Rural state and county roads here are pretty much like you say very low chance of getting pulled over.. However they do stop and weigh the log haulers on state roads ever now and then. Tractor and trailers or pickup and trailers are very seldom stopped. Twenty years ago the State of tennessee had their own DOT officers in vans riding around. Actually had almost one to ever county and they really dogged old trucks until most folks cleaned up their act. Drivers got their CDLs , owners quite running old junk trucks and things got to be in pretty good shape. I think budget constraints forced the state to do away with the DOT section and absorb it in the the highway patrol and most of those guys are too lazy to weigh or inspect a truck. I hear folks talking about hauling fuel or propane tanks or something just never see anyone stopped for those things. Farmers can haul wide loads no permit as a dealer we have to permit wide loads.
 
Back when I was in my late teens- early 20's. Local village hired Barney. First words he said to me was how he was going to straighten me out. He tried but never could. I had a lot of fun baiting him. He needed a here's your sign bumper sticker
 
I have only received one ticket ever.In 1977 was pulling a 11 foot wide disc behind my pickup on a Saturday morning,had a slow moving sign on.A state patrol on his way to work stopped me and gave me a ticket.In Wisconsin you can not tow farm equiment over

eight foot wide after 3pm on Friday until daylight on monday.The funny thing was I was taking the disc to his neighbor. (His neighbor owned a septic service) Guess who got charged a extra 32 dollars on his septic pumping the next time.
 
(quoted from post at 10:47:19 09/12/21) About half a century ago, as a teen, I spent the summers in a town in CT that had a lot of well to do NYC summer homes. The town used to be policed by a resident state trooper. The town finally decided to have a full time police so they hired a Barney who thought he was going to clean up the town. He was smart enough to not harass the adults because they largely were political fund contributors but the teens, in their hot rods were fair game (back then the teens wouldnt cry to their parents over these things). When he would stop us (seemed just for the hell of it) he would always have his hand on his gun and you just knew he wanted to stick it in your face to make you pi$$ in your pants. Back then they still needed probable cause to search a car. He was convinced the teens were hiding drugs. He finally came up with this great idea; he got this nasty temperament German Sheppard from the pound to ride along with him proclaiming it was a trained drug sniffing K9 police dog. When he would stop the kids he would get out with the dog which wanted to rip their throats out and he was now the hero cop saving the teens from dog justice. After the dog calmed down it, like many dogs, would sniff the kids crotch. This was the signal that they had drugs on them so it was a full on search. After a while this group of kids (slightly younger than me) got together and tailed this cop to learn his habits. They found that he would always stop for lunch at the local diner to brown nose with the town council that would always be there. Like any dog owner he would leave the dog in the cruiser with the windows cracked. One day the teens were waiting for him and while inside the diner tossed a piece of stake in the car shot up with a couple of tabs of LSD. Some passers by notified the cop that his K9 was going crazy. He comes out and cant do anything with the dog so in front of everyone, including the council, pulls out his service revolver and blows the dogs brains out. Now the town has a cruiser filled with bullet holes and dog brains and a populace asking why this cop was transporting such a dangerous and unstable animal let alone the gun play.
Needless to say his contract was not renewed.
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Interesting story. It's BS, but interesting. On the off chance that you did know anyone who gave acid to an animal I would just say that had I caught them when I was on the street I would have made them DRT.
 
The YTDOT is funded by the lies and false information spread by the YTDOT officers and honorary officers every time someone posts that crap barney gets 50$
 
SV,
To sum it up, you are saying those that quote form the DOT Bible are breaching to country boys and no one enforces DOT rules in the country?
 
Several decades ago, my great uncle quit farming and had the sale of his equipment in the local community building, about three miles from his farm. One of the pieces of on the auction was a John Deere H. Another uncle was driving the H into town on the local hilly two-lane highway to where the sale was to be held. A state trooper pulled my uncle over because the tractor didnt have a SMV triangle on the back of the tractor. (It didnt) The trooper than admitted that he had a John Deere H on his farm when he was growing up and he just stopped my uncle to take a look at the tractor. He walked around the tractor a few times admiring it and got back in his car without writing a ticket. So really, he wasnt a Barney at all.
 
Strangely enough I never heard about until about a year later. I was also surprised as I thought that particular group of kids weren't smart enough to come up with something like that.
 
Where does it say anywhere in your dot Bible that straps are illegal or cam type binders are illegal or mobile home axles are illegal?? You just gave barney 50$
 
Never cut a strap yet barney . If its something that will cut a strap I use chain . So when I strap hay I need an edge protector ? Sounds another 50$ check barney will live forever at this rate
 
(quoted from post at 11:43:08 09/12/21) How many country boys that stay off the Interstate get pulled over by Barney for any violation other than speeding or turn signals not working?

I'm 72. I have never gotten a speeding ticket, seat belt violation, never been stopped for anything related to not having a secure load or being overloaded. I don't run interstates.

Please share your experiences you have had with Barney on country roads or hauling your harvest to town.

What Barney did to Commercial carries, running interstates don't apply here. Only country boys, country roads, hauling hay or grain to market.

I'm not advocating unsafe practices, I just want to know how many have been Stopped by Barney and for what violation,
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We don't have any interstates where I worked George. Everything was pulled over on a 2 lane, or a lane and a half. Stupid NYS adopted the entire FMCSR enmass, so we got to talk to everything that was over 10,000 lbs and commercial.
 
Stopped during frost laws in the spring a few times such crap. You can by a permit to haul the same load without reducing. How does that make the road hold up any better? Good ole boys county here. Shiawassee county MI.
 
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