Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP); Flight Crew Flight Engineer; Flight Crew Flight Instructor; Flight Crew Instrument; Flight Crew Multiengine; Flight Crew Sea
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 300; Flight Crew Total 23000
Other / Unknown
Ground Event / Encounter FOD; Ground Incursion Runway
General None Reported / Taken
Airport; Human Factors
Truck towing a piece of farm implement drove onto the taxiway and past the runway hold bars without stopping and or looking and at the edge of the runway turned into the field to unload the piece of equipment. Vehicle had no lights; flags; or VHF radio with numerous aircraft in the traffic pattern. No effort to remove F.O.D. from taxiway/runway from the dirt on vehicle tires. The piece of farm machinery; a plow; is now next to Runway 16/34; unmarked; not NOTAMed; unlighted. Yolo County Airport is unfenced; non-gated; [and] poor to no markings identifying either taxiways or active runways. In its 68 year existence it has NEVER had a fence or gate to prevent people from walking; driving; or bicycling on the taxiways and runway. Yolo County refuses to address fencing issues. In the reporters opinion it is only a matter of time before an event takes place.
General Aviation pilot reports conditions and practices at DWA airport that are not safe.