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One man, one truck companies is also efficient union busting. Since they are contractors and not employees, they have zero rights and can be fired on the spot. Need a day off to take your truck to the shop and have it repaired properly? Don't bother coming back. PS that thread title made me, a grown man, as proud as when I won a prize at the national day fair as a kid.
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literally a fish posted:Yay, tax fuckery! 
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Jun 9, 2016 12:34
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Collateral Damage posted:If the tax laws weren't meant to be abused they wouldn't be written in a way that allows for so many loopholes. This, but unironically.
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Jun 9, 2016 12:51
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Ola posted:One man, one truck companies is also efficient union busting. Since they are contractors and not employees, they have zero rights and can be fired on the spot. Need a day off to take your truck to the shop and have it repaired properly? Don't bother coming back. I don't think that is what's going on here, his truck has been down for a week or so a few times for serious mechanical overhauls and he's still working for the same place. He fired it up to warm up for a run one morning a few years back and came back outside to the sound of it pounding a piston and connecting rod into the cylinder head, for example. Mechanical failures happen, it's just a fact of life sometimes.
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Jun 9, 2016 13:36
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That single-person-company trick used to be pretty commonly used by lawyers and accountants in the UK. Then software developers worked it out, and suddenly the rules got changed and it's (mostly) banned now. You're not counted as self employed if you do more than (IIRC) 80% of your business with one company. No idea how truckers over here normally organise themselves.
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Jun 9, 2016 13:38
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kastein posted:I don't think that is what's going on here Probably not in that specific case, I concede. But making people  run their own business instead of being employees is a common trick for shifting the risk, responsibility and cost of the owner over on the worker. Happens even here in Soviet Norway.
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This is basically the core of the Uber controversies as well, isn't it?
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literally a fish posted:It skirts having to pay income tax on buying stuff for her too (and just in general) - as an employee she can just be given a company chargecard (company buys things) rather than being paid a salary then having to use that to buy stuff, and her "salary" can be $1 less than what you'd have to pay income tax on - it's a fairly common thing to do for small businesses like this in Afaik here in Germany the tax authorities are really anal about what counts towards income, in terms of gifts or "deprecated" equipment etc. Or my employer's are just really careful.
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Computer viking posted:This is basically the core of the Uber controversies as well, isn't it? I would say that the core of the Uber (and other "sharing economy" services) controversy is that they don't neatly fit into any existing regulatory paradigms, and how an individual participant in those platforms is best classed can depend on their choices of how they use the platform. When you consider the influence of Taxi companies and other rent-seekers that don't want their monopolies hosed up, you will get endlessly dueling think-pieces with an ulterior motive. E: I hope this was a decent answer without going too D&D or injecting my own opinions. Alereon fucked around with this message at 22:19 on Jun 9, 2016 |
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Ola posted:One man, one truck companies is also efficient union busting. Since they are contractors and not employees, they have zero rights and can be fired on the spot. Need a day off to take your truck to the shop and have it repaired properly? Don't bother coming back. trucks breakdown as a matter of course, sick days are necessary, etc. there is such a shortage of drivers(especially drivers with clean records) that anyone with a cdl a is not wanting for work. in fact, we often import people from other countries to drive trucks for us. the independent contractor o/o paradigm is more about controlling risk and cost. if there is no work, then there is no associated labor cost. in turn the company has less control over their actions. they cant dictate a route or set start times, only pickup/delivery appointments. that being said, drivers in some areas of the country(namely los angeles/long beach and ny/nj) are agitating for a change in employment classification. this is partly due to the inefficiencies of pulling containers out of the ports. drivers often sit in hour long lines or spend hours in the port waiting for a container to be mounted and, since they are paid by the trip, are losing money as a result.
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I can't imagine being a trucker in LA/LB. gently caress. That. Noise.
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Jun 10, 2016 06:20
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To get things back on track here's a wheel I probably broke at our last race when I took an optional grass shortcut.  Still held air fine and if it was actually me that broke it that wheel was on the car for another five hours of racing 
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NitroSpazzz posted:To get things back on track here's a wheel I probably broke at our last race when I took an optional grass shortcut.  Grass and what? That is a shitload of damage for grass. How did the undercarriage fare in this little shortcut escapade? Or did you manage to find the one well placed rock in said grass?
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H110Hawk posted:
Grass, curbing/rumble strip at the edge of the track and the edge of the track itself getting back on. Ran wide at a corner then ran in the grass for a while before coming back on.
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Disgruntled Bovine posted:Apparently what works on cars doesn't always work on mining trucks: Before these incidents are cleaned up, companies should fly people who were busted for cardinal safety rule violations to these places and parade them by before they filter into some other job and get people killed. Lots of dead people have prior horrible violations.
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Saw this out & about today. Scion tC vs. Dodge Calibur (Pacifica?)?   
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B4Ctom1 posted:Before these incidents are cleaned up, companies should fly people who were busted for cardinal safety rule violations to these places and parade them by before they filter into some other job and get people killed. Lots of dead people have prior horrible violations. I heard second hand that a RAF maintenance guy got killed when working on a plane because he didn't bother to fit the mechanical lock-outs that prevented the ejector seat mechanism from going 'bang' while he was working in the cockpit. The senior officer had the entire ground crew form up on parade and each one had to view the scene before they shoveled the bits away. Probably apocryphal, but it always stuck in my mind as a good way to drive home a point.
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friend of mine in Saskatchewan hit a moose at night last week That's one hell of a close call with hitting a moose
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Moose collisions can be pretti nasti...
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TKIY posted:Moose collisions can be pretti nasti... They sure kan.
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Memento posted:They sure kan. We apologize again for the fault in the subtitles. Those responsible for sacking the people who have just been sacked have been sacked.
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Jun 12, 2016 02:22
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Best derail ever.
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Moose probably got up, gave the now-totaled car a "whooooa take 'er easy dere baie" look and walked back into the bush Moose will gently caress your day up right quick.
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Pipe will also gently caress your day up right quick.  Don't know much about the circumstances yet but the cab sides are both buckled with visible distortion right up to the B pillar. Driver's okay. Turbo Fondant fucked around with this message at 06:29 on Jun 12, 2016 |
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Failed to get a picture, but today I got stuck behind an 80s Range Rover doing 65 on the 610 loop and pouring this James Bond-esque smokescreen behind him as he puttered along. The driver seemed utterly unconcerned. I assumed it was electrical.
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Propaganda Bob posted:Failed to get a picture, but today I got stuck behind an 80s Range Rover doing 65 on the 610 loop and pouring this James Bond-esque smokescreen behind him as he puttered along. The driver seemed utterly unconcerned. It was coolant.
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cursedshitbox posted:It was coolant. Land Rover, not Volkswagen
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Enourmo posted:Land Rover, not Volkswagen I would trust him.
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Enourmo posted:Land Rover, not Volkswagen Like he said, it was coolant.
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Enourmo posted:Land Rover, not Volkswagen VW would be coolant, too. It would just be dripping out of the tail lights instead.
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VW built their reputation on cars without coolant, so maybe adding it in is where they went wrong.
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xzzy posted:VW built their reputation on cars without coolant, so maybe adding it in is where they went wrong. Quoting this because never have a I read a more correct statement.
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xzzy posted:VW built their reputation on cars without coolant, so maybe adding it in is where they went wrong. Indeed. Great Moments in Crappy Engine History: Volkswagen Wasserboxer http://www.sub5zero.com/great-moments-crappy-engine-history-volkswagen-wasserboxer-w-video/
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Vanagoon posted:Indeed. From the picture it doesn't even look based on the more robust Type 4 engine, instead a Type 1 that they added a water jacket to (like, literally just added it).
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More of a future mechanical failure, but there is a local guy who decided he needs to cool the rotors on his fiesta at autocross. So he sprays them with a water after every run.
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Crustashio posted:More of a future mechanical failure, but there is a local guy who decided he needs to cool the rotors on his fiesta at autocross. So he sprays them with a water after every run. Group B had total-loss water cooled disc brakes.
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Group B also didn't care so much about cracking rotors or consumables as a whole, really. They also would've been running much hotter brake temps than a Fiesta running through a parking lot for a minute.
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And they probably at least set it up so it got both sides of the disc in an even manner. I also have no doubts that he will do it on lapping days as well where the thermal shock will be much higher.
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Geirskogul posted:From the picture it doesn't even look based on the more robust Type 4 engine, instead a Type 1 that they added a water jacket to (like, literally just added it). The water cooling is basically just tacked on. The heads are "sealed" to the water jacket by what amounts to a big O-ring.   In a pressurized, water cooled engine this means that the coolant doesn't want to stay in the engine as the seal ages. VW offers this special black water jacket seal glue just for this engine.
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Would have been a cool idea if it had worked. Retrofitting is fun!
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