Car Thread

[robert.]

Here is a photo from someone else
https://www.reddit.com/r/AwesomeCarMods ... n_trailer/
This bottom one is a video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYa-i6kZ7D0

[healey36]

Making hay in Dresher, PA:


Library of Congress, July 1944, by photographer Pauline Ehrlich.

We'll be cutting/baling hay two months from now...almost impossible to believe given this weather.

Healey

[up148]

Robert,
So what is wrong with it that it should be taken out of service?
Not snide, real question.

At least here in OK, semi drivers passing through the state have really changed in the past decade. Rude, dangerous, many looking like they had no training at all and driving over the speed limit of (75 MPH) on the turnpike, zipping in and out of traffic like a sports car.

Seeing a cab unit that looks like that one certainly paints a picture of the driver I don't care to be around on the highway. What's the point of looking like a crazy, whacked-out Mad Max type driver if you're not?

BH

[rogruth]

OK. Thank you. It's the driver not the truck.

[Mitch]

Having been a professional over-the-road trucker with a little over 1 1/4 million miles in a bit over 13 years, I'm absolutely appalled at the "so called professional" drivers out there on the road today. Don't get me wrong; I've done my share of speedin', but never in any dangerous way like some of these clowns do now. On the northern part of Michigan I-75, comin' south from St. Ignace in the middle of the night, I had the speedometer in a '72 Jimmy sittin' comfortably on the P in MPH at the bottom of the speedo for 2 hours. High beams on, and I'm the only one on the road. Back then, that was a very desolate road; no traffic, no cops, and God help ya if ya broke down.

These drivers today act like they're drivin' a sports car through traffic, with an added touch of road rage.

[Roy]

Why don't we have truck trains, like the Australians?

[Tom Dempsey]

Why don't we have truck trains, like the Australians?

'Cause we got these things called railroads.

[Roy]

Why don't we have truck trains, like the Australians?

'Cause we got these things called railroads.

So do the Aussies. The more you pull with trains, trucks or whatever, the lower your transportation costs.

[HONDO74]

Why don't we have truck trains, like the Australians?

'Cause we got these things called railroads.

So do the Aussies. The more you pull with trains, trucks or whatever, the lower your transportation costs.

If you do a little research on the subject you will find out that these truck trains are used mostly in the outback. Big country with no rail service in the outback.

Railroads in Australia.

[Roy]

Yeah, OK. Just a thought.

[robert.]

Robert,
So what is wrong with it that it should be taken out of service?
Not snide, real question.

At least here in OK, semi drivers passing through the state have really changed in the past decade. Rude, dangerous, many looking like they had no training at all and driving over the speed limit of (75 MPH) on the turnpike, zipping in and out of traffic like a sports car.

Seeing a cab unit that looks like that one certainly paints a picture of the driver I don't care to be around on the highway. What's the point of looking like a crazy, whacked-out Mad Max type driver if you're not?

BH

I looked around on the net. This guy has more violation then you can imagine. I can'y believe companies hire him to pull their trailers.

[E7]

I looked around on the net. This guy has more violation then you can imagine. I can'y believe companies hire him to pull their trailers.

The 64 dollar question: How does he keep his CDL????

[Roy]

I looked around on the net. This guy has more violation then you can imagine. I can'y believe companies hire him to pull their trailers.

Are we talking driving violations, or violations related to his customized truck? I can easily understand hiring him, to show off the truck.

[healey36]

Spent the weekend in Lodi NY working on my brother-in-law's cabin. With a gutted kitchen, I spent a bunch of time in Watkins Glen searching for food/coffee. The bakery/coffee-shop has a sense of history:



The village looks a bit run down from what I remember...maybe it's been a hard winter. We left yesterday morning under white-out conditions.

Healey

[Rufus T. Firefly]

The bakery/coffee-shop has a sense of history:

Nicely done!