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chitoryu12 posted:I'd imagine a guy isn't going to make the best judgement driving while on LSD. There's no damage to the truck, so it seems the balance of drugs he achieved allowed him to safely do his job for 50 consecutive hours. Imagine what you could achieve with that kind of efficiency. knock your work week out in 2 days and have 5 days free to sit around and do drugs. Zipperelli. posted:How does this happen? Truckers are required to stop and rest every 'x' amount of hours. How did he not get caught at a weigh station or something? I was always paranoid about getting my log books filled out and in the end, nobody else ever saw a single page. Powershift fucked around with this message at 16:18 on Mar 30, 2017 |
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Gorilla Salad posted:The opposite of OSHA: these iron throne parodies are getting really mundane
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Michigan is having all kinds of issues with trucking right now. The state weight limit is twice the federal standard, companies can even be allowed to have a "superload" which weighs even more for just a flat $50, and the State Police only have the budget for like 14 commercial vehicle officers in the entire state to run weigh stations and to roadside checks. Couple that with both a heavy logging industry and one of the main cargo transit points with Canada and you have an absurd number of overweight trucks destroying roads with virtually no oversight or regulation. And any time the state legislature tries to do anything about that the logging and agriculture lobby destroy it before it gets anywhere close to a house floor.
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not to mention that Michigan has some of the worst roads in the country to begin with because of the freeze/thaw cycle
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Scruff McGruff posted:Michigan is having all kinds of issues with trucking right now. The state weight limit is twice the federal standard, companies can even be allowed to have a "superload" which weighs even more for just a flat $50, and the State Police only have the budget for like 14 commercial vehicle officers in the entire state to run weigh stations and to roadside checks. Couple that with both a heavy logging industry and one of the main cargo transit points with Canada and you have an absurd number of overweight trucks destroying roads with virtually no oversight or regulation. And any time the state legislature tries to do anything about that the logging and agriculture lobby destroy it before it gets anywhere close to a house floor.
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Scruff McGruff posted:Michigan is having all kinds of issues with trucking right now. The state weight limit is twice the federal standard, companies can even be allowed to have a "superload" which weighs even more for just a flat $50, and the State Police only have the budget for like 14 commercial vehicle officers in the entire state to run weigh stations and to roadside checks. Couple that with both a heavy logging industry and one of the main cargo transit points with Canada and you have an absurd number of overweight trucks destroying roads with virtually no oversight or regulation. And any time the state legislature tries to do anything about that the logging and agriculture lobby destroy it before it gets anywhere close to a house floor. Well the free market should adjust to discourage truckers from carrying oversized loads to avoid damaaaaahahahahahahaha
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Sagebrush posted:My high school principal was missing his middle, ring and little finger on one hand from an attempt to un-jam a rock from the blades of a running snowblower. You didn't go to high school in a Chicago suburb did you?
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Moey posted:You didn't go to high school in a Chicago suburb did you? I did! I know who you're talking about.. probably, was he a gym teacher that also was the coach for waterpolo/swimming?
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MF_James posted:I did! I know who you're talking about.. probably, was he a gym teacher that also was the coach for waterpolo/swimming? Well, when I knew him he was a Tech teacher at a Jr High and wrestling coach. Also taught building trades a few years later for the Highschool above said Jr High.
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Powershift posted:There's no damage to the truck, so it seems the balance of drugs he achieved allowed him to safely do his job for 50 consecutive hours. Someone has to fish his credit cards out of the fuel tank though. Might be an issue if they dissolve in the diesel before that happens. quote:The Recorder also reports that the man “threw his credit cards into the truck’s fuel tank” for some reason and was climbing around the truck trying to get back in. Thankfully, police added, no one was hurt. 
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Scruff McGruff posted:Michigan is having all kinds of issues with trucking right now. The state weight limit is twice the federal standard, companies can even be allowed to have a "superload" which weighs even more for just a flat $50, and the State Police only have the budget for like 14 commercial vehicle officers in the entire state to run weigh stations and to roadside checks. Couple that with both a heavy logging industry and one of the main cargo transit points with Canada and you have an absurd number of overweight trucks destroying roads with virtually no oversight or regulation. And any time the state legislature tries to do anything about that the logging and agriculture lobby destroy it before it gets anywhere close to a house floor. I was laid off amongst 3/4 of the field management of Central Transport because the 82 year old billionaire owner was charged with contempt of court for not fixing this. His biggest racket was the ownership/toll collection on the Ambassador Bridge border crossing, which he ensured would be a constant income source by buying up the land along the coast to block other tunnels/bridges from being built. He basically got ordered to fix the roads or go to jail- though I'm pretty sure he had a volunteer serve the time for him. As an added bonus when applying for unemployment we all found out that we showed drawing a duplicate paycheck from a Canadian subsidiary.
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Moey posted:Well, when I knew him he was a Tech teacher at a Jr High and wrestling coach. Also taught building trades a few years later for the Highschool above said Jr High. Oh different guy then, I went to a catholic high school and afaik he was always a swim type dude, but he definitely only had a thumb and forefinger
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MausoleumExtremist posted:I was laid off amongst 3/4 of the field management of Central Transport because the 82 year old billionaire owner was charged with contempt of court for not fixing this. His biggest racket was the ownership/toll collection on the Ambassador Bridge border crossing, which he ensured would be a constant income source by buying up the land along the coast to block other tunnels/bridges from being built. He basically got ordered to fix the roads or go to jail- though I'm pretty sure he had a volunteer serve the time for him. Lol, Matty Moroun is like a real-life cartoon villain tycoon. His wiki page is pretty tame other than the incident you mentioned but the page for the new Gordie Howe Bridge has some of the better stuff he's done recently. quote:The most vocal opposition to the new crossing has been from billionaire Manuel "Matty" Moroun, who owns the Ambassador Bridge. He has sued the governments of Canada and Michigan to stop its construction, and released a proposal to build a second span of the Ambassador Bridge (which he would own) instead.[38] Critics suggest that Moroun's opposition is fueled by the prospect of lost profits from duty-free gasoline sales, which are exempt from about 60 cents per gallon in taxes even though the pump price to consumers is only a few cents lower.[39]
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MausoleumExtremist posted:he had a volunteer serve the time for him. you can do that? 
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MF_James posted:Oh different guy then, I went to a catholic high school and afaik he was always a swim type dude, but he definitely only had a thumb and forefinger Ha, yeah, our guy was missing the majority of fingers. Same style accident. Whenever he shook your hand, he would also always rub your palm with one of his nubs just to try and creep you out.
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Moey posted:Ha, yeah, our guy was missing the majority of fingers. Same style accident. haha this guy did the same. I also used to keep our construction equipment at an auto shop, the guy was an old machinist and was missing his ring and middle fingers from a metal press incident if i recall correctly and he would do the same thing.
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I thought Jon Tester was missing his middle two fingers, but I was remembering wrong. One pinky more than my grandpa!
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Scruff McGruff posted:Lol, Matty Moroun is like a real-life cartoon villain tycoon. His wiki page is pretty tame other than the incident you mentioned but the page for the new Gordie Howe Bridge has some of the better stuff he's done recently. He would interrupt board meetings in corporate to call a random field office just to yell at whoever picked up the phone for basically no reason. It was such a surreal place to work. On the plus side "owner and VP were indicted" is a GREAT answer for the "why did you leave X company?" question in an interview.
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DirtRoadJunglist posted:I thought Jon Tester was missing his middle two fingers, but I was remembering wrong. When I was in second grade we went on a field trip. The mother of a student was chaperoning but she had the exact same thing as the pic above on one hand. It creeped me the gently caress out as a kid, but later on I felt bad for it. She was just trying to hang ten, you know?
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spankmeister posted:you can do that? The guy who sang return of the mack did it to avoid community service. Found a lookalike to take his place on a work crew. He was caught.
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Mar 30, 2017 17:55
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Scruff McGruff posted:Michigan is having all kinds of issues with trucking right now. The state weight limit is twice the federal standard, companies can even be allowed to have a "superload" which weighs even more for just a flat $50, and the State Police only have the budget for like 14 commercial vehicle officers in the entire state to run weigh stations and to roadside checks. Couple that with both a heavy logging industry and one of the main cargo transit points with Canada and you have an absurd number of overweight trucks destroying roads with virtually no oversight or regulation. And any time the state legislature tries to do anything about that the logging and agriculture lobby destroy it before it gets anywhere close to a house floor.  The damage a vehicle does to a road scales with the fourth power of axle weight. These (legal, non‐superload) trucks aren’t doing twice the damage. They’re doing sixteen times the damage.
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That's a pretty special engine, being able to run on such diverse fuel types.
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If he'd used reds, vitamin C and cocaine he'd have gotten away with it.
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Obsurveyor posted:Someone has to fish his credit cards out of the fuel tank though. Might be an issue if they dissolve in the diesel before that happens. The Police can use the credit card info to track the time and distance between fill ups and use that to provide evidence of hours of service violations.
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spankmeister posted:you can do that? not officially, but the term "fall guy" exists for good reason
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Lutha Mahtin posted:not officially, but the term "fall guy" exists for good reason For example, the bastard going to jail this week over Bridgegate who isn't Chris Christie.
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Bacon Taco posted:If he'd used reds, vitamin C and cocaine he'd have gotten away with it. i get this joke 
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Bacon Taco posted:If he'd used reds, vitamin C and cocaine he'd have gotten away with it. All a friend can say is, "aint it a shame?"
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Fly Molo posted:If they're paper logs, they're easily to falsify. If they're computer logs, they're also easy to falsify, you just need to call someone with admin privileges who's willing to "fix" them, or login with someone else's ID #. At the truck shop I work at we get lots of calls to "fix" these computer log systems for one of our main customers. 90% of the time the issue is due to the CPU mysteriously unplugging itself.
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Powershift posted:Imagine what you could achieve with that kind of efficiency. knock your work week out in 2 days and have 5 days free to sit around and do drugs. I worked two jobs and did this when I was in university - Early shift at the first job Thursday, late shift at the second job Thursday night, back it up on Friday with the same thing, then sleep all weekend. I don't recommend it.
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Fly Molo posted:If they're paper logs, they're easily to falsify. If they're computer logs, they're also easy to falsify, you just need to call someone with admin privileges who's willing to "fix" them, or login with someone else's ID #. Here, the police have cameras watching the main approach roads to the cities. It recognises the truck license plates and records the time.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0ZhUxrvnVg
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fp6hFnWXMag
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I really, really want to know what that looked like healed up.
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Dienes posted:I really, really want to know what that looked like healed up. Russians proving they are the baddest of asses yet again. I too really want to see the end result.
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I had a coach in middle school who was missing half his thumb. Born that way. Sure was an absolute douchebag though. Sounds like the folks who lose them doing stupid stuff usually end up pretty cool.
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The Lone Badger posted:Here, the police have cameras watching the main approach roads to the cities. It recognises the truck license plates and records the time.
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