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House panel advances law to require drivers and oncoming vehicles to slow for agricultural equipment and to allow implements to pull off when safe
Summary
Rep. Edward Byrne’s bill would require vehicles approaching agricultural equipment to reduce speed to the slower vehicle’s pace, require oncoming drivers to reduce speed when passing is necessary, and direct farm equipment to pull off into designated pullouts when safe to allow traffic to pass.
Representative Ed Byrne introduced House Bill 739 to require motorists to exercise greater caution around agricultural vehicles on Montana public roads. The draft requires a motor vehicle approaching an agricultural vehicle to slow to the agricultural vehicle’s speed and to pass only where passing is permitted and it is safe to do so. When an agricultural vehicle…
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