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Michigan Legislator Introduces Bill Inspired By My Post

February 17, 2020

Actual photo from the event described.

During #harvest19, I shared a story about a frustrating situation. My family was moving equipment from one field to another. My brother was in the combine, my dad was in the semi-truck, and mom was pulling the corn head. A tire on the corn-head trailer blew. Mom managed to maneuver it just off the road. But the tire had to be changed. So my brother and dad set to the task.. Mom unhooked the trailer and moved the pick-up truck down the road a bit and turned on the hazard lights.

But cars continued to fly by. They didn’t reduce their speed. They didn’t move to the other lane. And they didn’t proceed with caution. I posted in exasperation asking people to move over and slow down when presented with this situation. That was my family on the road side and these drivers were creating a dangerous situation.

The post was popular among my followers, who widely shared it. Michigan State Senator Kim LaSata saw the story and was concerned. She understood how dangerous the situation was, so she decided to take action.

Senator LaSata introduced legislation requiring vehicles to react when disabled farm equipment is on the road. Senate Bill No. 77 requires drivers to reduce their speed by 10 mph below the posted speed limit and move into the other lane, when possible. If passed, police officers can ticket any drivers violating the requirements.

I’m frustrated we need legislation making people react this way. But I’m so thankful that Senator LaSata is doing something about it. It requires police officers to enforce it, but it’s a good start. If the legislation passes, there’s at least a consequence if people race by and put our farmers in danger.

Zaluckyj Farms hosted Senator LaSata at our farm this past fall shortly after this happened. She took a combine ride during corn harvest. And she discussed some of the challenges facing Michigan farmers, including inattentive drivers. It’s so awesome to have a local lawmaker who is willing to climb into a combine and meet farmers where they are. It’s really impressive and I appreciate that she actually took the time to listen and follow through with legislation to help.

I’ll continue to follow this bill as it makes its way through the process. Hopefully it will become law and start offering some protections to farmers soon!

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  1. Cathy Spare says

    February 21, 2020 at 12:12 pm

    This is awesome! We have a small family farm in Kansas. There have been times when my husband has been moving the combine from one field to another, he will have a blocker in the front and back with flashers on to alert other drivers to slow down and they just zip past us and then boom there’s the combine. He will try to pull over as much as possible but I don’t think the other driver realizes that all it might take is a wheel off in the wrong ditch and there could be serious consequences. Whats more frustrating is we live in a farming community and you would hope they would respect that large equipment a little more. Our sheriff puts out reminders every year to watch out for our farmers, but…

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