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Well I mean you can always get a temporary permit...
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May 23, 2016 23:34
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Delivery McGee posted:There used to be an antiques store/used Rolls-Royce and other old exotics dealership in Dallas, right across from the main entrance to Love Field. It was a warehouse, one side was the antirques and the other side was car showroom. As someone who lives in DFW, and works walking distance from Love, this interests me greatly. Right at Cedar Springs & Mockingbird, or was the main entrance elsewhere in the past? These days there's a Shell, a Tesla showroom behind the Shell, and some fast food places. The Tesla showroom looks like it was partly a warehouse at one point.
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Jul 31, 2016 11:00
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Tokyo Sexwhale posted:Making a carb setup work without using the TBI pump would mean installing a mechanical pump, which can be a pain in the rear end if the engine wasn't designed to mount a mechanical pump. That's probably a L05 engine. Some were, some weren't, cast with the mechanical fuel pump opening. If it was, it'll have a blockoff plate. But the cam for the TBI may or may not have the fuel pump lobe anyway. You can get low pressure electric fuel pumps easily though.
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Sep 8, 2016 04:50
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Tokyo Sexwhale posted:unless that thing has electronically controlled distribution or something else dumb. To take this literally, yes, all of the domestics moved to electronic ignition in the mid 1970s.  But even only taking it semi literally, the ECU does control the timing and ignition.Nothing that a HEI distributor can't fix though. 
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Sep 8, 2016 07:49
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I thought the TBI heads were still a bit different?
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Sep 10, 2016 03:45
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Wouldn't much of Canada be cold enough that 50/50 mix would be a bad idea in the winter? I mean, I know topping it off won't throw off whatever mix you already have by much, but I'm thinking more about people who buy the premix after draining the cooling system.
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Oct 14, 2016 00:05
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Well then... the more you know! *puts on dunce hat*
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Oct 14, 2016 00:17
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ExplodingSims posted:Started: I bought a new one that fits the bellhousing. It for a 70 something GMC, but it fits ok. Hopefully it plays nice with the ECU The ECU won't give two shits about what starter you're using - on something that old, it doesn't control the starter at all, AFAIK. Astonishing Wang posted:But didn't he basically just NOT get three vehicles running? I thought the rule was to not judge a mechanic by his/her own vehicles?  My (now former, but only due to distance) longtime mechanic daily drives a 4th gen Prelude that looks like any other beat up mid 90s Honda, but has some kind of nutty JDM swap with some kind of turbo and ice cold ac. His wife's car (last time I talked to him) is an Odyssey with around half a million miles. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 06:29 on Nov 1, 2016 |
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Nov 1, 2016 06:26
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Holy poo poo the Heep made it 
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Nov 2, 2016 08:38
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I'll find my magnifying glass. 
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Nov 2, 2016 10:48
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Slick posted:Can the vans dash be placed on the 'dash', or duck taped nearby. Passenger readout, center mount, hood mount? Not even messing with the existing dash for time and convenience. This sounds far more likely. Not only are the sending units on the tree'fiddy likely not really compatible with the existing gauges... the existing stuff is also 6 volt. Even if the 6 volt stuff was converted at some point in the past, that thing has been sitting in a field for longer than a lot of us have been alive. I mean... I don't want to practice welding with a car battery. Can't really turn it off if it sticks. Throw some magnetic trailer lights on the back somewhere visible, adapt some kind of brake light switch, find some 12V headlights that fit the original headlight buckets (or barring that, some "fog/driving lights" from the Wal-Mart in the next state), and run some new wires to them - yank the headlight switch (and chop off the pigtail from the harness) from the van for this, the headlight switch should have a built-in circuit breaker, those things ran an unfused battery feed through them to the lights without any relays. Use hand signals for turning if a cop is around, turn signals were a dealer option when that thing was built anyway. Speedo won't be working anyway, unless he figures out a way to run the cable to the cluster. Not like it'd be capable of getting any speeding tickets, unless he finds a school zone on a steep hill. Tickets for impeding traffic might be another story... kastein posted:I would strongly suggest not loving with the stock gauges or wiring 14 BAR RIFF posted:Challenged acc randomidiot fucked around with this message at 11:17 on Nov 3, 2016 |
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Nov 3, 2016 11:15
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Pham Nuwen posted:I've always assumed it's because crazy people get banned from flying for being crazy, but Greyhound just looks the other way cause they need the fares. Yeah uh, don't try that anywhere near the Mexico border. Buses pretty much always get searched at border patrol checkpoints. Especially if your name is Willie Nelson or Fiona Apple. (both got popped at the checkpoint I go through every time I'm leaving El Paso, and it seems to be a roughly 50/50 shot of me getting at least stopped briefly for questioning while driving my own car... been searched a few times).OTOH, they didn't even ask me for my ticket when I took Amtrak to get back home. Fermented Tinal posted:Take the train, the seats actually have room and it's generally enjoyable even in cattle class. Anywhere outside of the northeast, you're looking at least doubling-tripling your trip time vs taking a bus, to say the least. And it costs about the same (and gets hilariously expensive if you actually get a sleeper). The food is pretty terrible (and laughably expensive) too, but at least they serve booze! Took me a bit over 2 full days to get from Dallas to El Paso (and another 2 days to get back). That's a 10 hour drive if you only stop to piss and get gas and manage to avoid rush hours. 15 hours according to Greyhound's website. I actually did enjoy the trip on Amtrak, except the restrooms get pretty horrific after the first day (you definitely want to take a poo poo before you get on the train). Mostly hung out in the lounge car, which has ceiling to (almost) floor windows, and a small snack shop/bar. And a whollllle lot of Amish folks.
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Nov 5, 2016 05:17
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Plot twist: it's a V12 with 6 2->1 collectors.
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Nov 6, 2016 03:32
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14 BAR RIFF posted:Roomie just sent me these pics of Rosie Wanna try to pet that cat but I know I would lose my
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Nov 17, 2016 05:31
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Fermented Tinal posted:My radiator fan hasn't come on in months, can confirm it is a useless part when your thermostat fails open. Let me tell you how fun it is when you turn on the windshield defroster (which automatically turns on the ac compressor on my car.. and radiator fan) in the middle of winter with a thermostat that's stuck open. I don't care how much cardboard you've stuck in front of the radiator, you ain't getting any heat at that point. 
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Nov 29, 2016 08:10
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djdanno13 posted:Well it's not my fault you wanted to open mouth kiss me. I said just the lips! Just the lips! But no, you needed to stick your tongue down my throat. You're really lucky that's ALL he stuck down your throat!
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Nov 30, 2016 04:49
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So where's Dan? Have you run him off?
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Dec 6, 2016 04:08
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Some cars don't even care enough about a knock sensor to pull timing if it's disconnected. Or turn on the CEL. My 99 Altima would barely break 55 with it hooked up, timed properly and running good gas (but it had an $11 ebay sensor when the OEM is around $300-400). With it unhooked it would bury the speedometer. No CEL, just a stored code that didn't even show up during emissions testing. Then you have Hondas, which throw the car into  if it's disconnected. I suspect a TBI Chevy is gonna be more of the former.
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Dec 6, 2016 13:21
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djdanno13 posted:I'M DOING JUST FINE GUYS! WHAT A GREAT MORNING THIS IS. SO HAPPY TO HAVE DAVE HE'S A GREAT HOUSE GUEST. So what are the methane levels like inside?
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Dec 6, 2016 17:35
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Get some sleep man, it's gonna be tomorrow in a little less than an hour and a half!
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Dec 7, 2016 06:32
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Holy poo poo. Actual goosebumps from seeing it fire up. So what was keeping it from starting? Firing order?
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Dec 9, 2016 02:01
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14 BAR RIFF posted:Me and Dan are gorging ourselves on victory beans lol Just be careful with the cigs man, you don't need the FD out there again. (also I WAS about to cook a pot of beans.... doesn't sound so appealing now)
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Dec 9, 2016 04:41
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Cop Porn Popper posted:I've always been envious of people capable of enjoying hallucinagens. My mental state when I had access to stuff like that was such that I was wary of trying it. Even shrooms were iffy, with about a 50/50 split of good and bad trips. I loved acid, until I took a massive bong rip that cooked the entire (fresh) bowl while tripping. Everyone was staring at me.. then one of them told me "dude, that was dro". And... yeah. Being way too stoned is uncomfortable as hell to begin with. Add a few hits of acid and WELP, never could enjoy it again after that. Shrooms on the other hand... my last time with them was a bit shaky, but more because I didn't listen to the friend I got them from who told me they were the strongest he'd ever had and to be careful. First time I've ever forgotten who, what, where, when, but at least I could remember I had taken shrooms and that it would end soon, which kept it from tipping into "bad". Managed to get a trippy movie playing for a bit, then pissed in the garbage can in my bedroom. I hid the rest of them when I was finally coming back to reality, annnnnd never found them again. Metal Geir Skogul posted:Never did shrooms. SWIM did a lot of DXM, though, and it was terrible. DXM and ketamine were consistently in my body for awhile (not at the same time obviously). Memory? What memory?!
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Dec 13, 2016 08:26
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I'm.... too experienced with that poo poo. BACK IN MY DAY  you could order the powder itself off the internet. Along with a shitload of other chemicals that are now far from legal (2cb, 2ct7, BZP, stuff to make GHB, etc).I would tell you just how FUBAR an estimated 1 - 1.5 grams makes you (especially since I weighed like 130 back then), but I don't remember much of it except being FUBAR.
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Dec 13, 2016 08:52
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Previa_fun posted:Drugs are good and when you do em people think that you're cool. You missed a line in the lyrics. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqPNpZzE9xc&t=56s
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Dec 14, 2016 07:42
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My man parts ran up inside me and hid for good just thinking about how cold that must have been. I was bitching about it being ~19-20 degrees here and windy as poo poo. I'm not gonna bitch anymore.
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Dec 18, 2016 08:19
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An old roommate and I had Integraty! ... as in... we both owned almost identical cars. He had a 1990 Integra. I had a 1991 Integra. Same color, and the same front clip mod (JDM headlights)... and making it more confusing, our keys worked on each others cars (but to be fair, the key to my old Civic also worked on his car, and a screwdriver probably would have worked too). We also had similar stereos. I got in his car more than once (and vice versa) and went "wait... wrong kind of transmission". Other hint was his had manual windows, mine had power windows (but oddly, still manual locks on mine). Still wound up taking each others cars occasionally, because at 5am when you're trying to get to work and you've already overslept, you just don't give a gently caress.
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Dec 21, 2016 08:00
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This seems like a really good time to drop this right... here.
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Dec 22, 2016 08:24
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To be fair, you wouldn't be considering suicide by pissicle (alternatively, split rim incident) if Sims hadn't bought this truck. (stay warm, damnit.. and uh, maybe put some new plugs on both the extension cord and generator, ONE FIRE IS ENOUGH)
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Dec 23, 2016 11:37
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I don't think 14 weighs 215 lbs though.
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Dec 26, 2016 03:44
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Fermented Tinal posted:Is danno okay with Dave continuing work like this? IIRC Danno got married, and moves out of town before New Years. Probably safe to assume he'd scheduled utility disconnects for the property, so staying there likely isn't an option unless there's some way to keep heat and water on. And this is assuming someone isn't waiting to move in. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 07:40 on Dec 28, 2016 |
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Dec 28, 2016 07:27
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Doesn't the Dodge have a timing belt? Not really sure how much I'd trust that if it's been sitting awhile...
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Dec 30, 2016 01:24
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Seat Safety Switch posted:Worst case we can loot the sound chip from the dashboard and make it say "PENIS" over and over again. The resulting YouTube ad money will pay for a Chinook extraction flight. This guy was able to rip the recordings from the ROM. Unfortunately he never released them, but I bet a goon could figure out how to rip the recordings... and probably figure out how to get new recordings into it. 
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14 BAR RIFF posted:I think a victory pyre is in order Oh gently caress. So long as the truck, VW, and Daytona aren't offered up.. Enourmo posted:14, you look more alive and happy in that video than I would have thought possible a year ago. You made your pilgrimage, you put in 6 solid weeks of work, and you found yourself again. Also, this. You've put in a truly insane amount of work man. Kudos.
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Dave, seriously,. thanks for everything. I'm not even involved in this, but it was a hell of a ride watching this. No sane person would have ever done this, and you look so much better than a few months ago. Godspeed man. Get home in one piece. Go stroke your hairy 14 BAR RIFF posted:A message from me and dan. Completely out of left field, but... what the gently caress is your accent? I thought you spent most of your life on the west coast? You sound more midwestern than... uh, midwesterners. Or am I just used to my own accent now? Dan sounds mostly like "generic American accent" to me. People from the border region can nail my accent immediately as soon as I open my mouth, otherwise the only comment I get is "how much Spanish do you speak?" or "you don't sound like you're from Texas". I know my own accent has changed a lot since I moved to DFW 20 years ago, but the slang I use gives it away in a hurry. My dead giveaway is a white guy using the *clicks mouth* AHHH as a scoff. Gabriel Iglesias describes it decently in his latest Netflix special. clam ache posted:The best kind of vette. Never seen one that clean personally. I did once, right after I called the fire department to let them know it was on fire. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 17:40 on Jan 1, 2017 |
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MrYenko posted:That's an old UPS package car, not a Divco. I had a huge post about how there's no way that could be a UPS package car, since they get every last mile out of them before crushing them (and I've worked for UPS twice now, so....) This picture proves you're right, though.  I've never seen a former package car in the wild; usually they get moved to intra/interhub duty or airport duty when they hit about 1M miles (on the diesels anyway; no idea on the newer gassers, but the gassers seem to all be automatic, with anti-idle, and Oldsmobile Intrigue or Alero headlamp assemblies), then when they get too unreliable for even that, they strip anything usable and crush the body. The last package car I was in was a 1996 with an odometer stuck around 620k. That was less than a month ago. Navistar diesel (I assume V8) with a Spicer 5 speed (though 1st would barely keep up with someone jogging on the sidewalk before the engine sounded like it wanted to turn itself inside out). That truck was beat enough that the floor had cracks large enough to see the road anytime it hit a bump, and you had to make sure your shoelaces weren't near those cracks while going around turns. They get their money's worth out of them.
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Leperflesh posted:Management or union? Union when I was in a warehouse, seasonal (non-union) as a driver helper. I worked the midnight shift as a loader in a large hub - I primarily loaded 18 wheelers going to Wichita Falls I had to unload a few trucks when unload was short handed. I really preferred that - the required packages per minute was way higher, but all I had to do is grab a box, spin it until the label was on the top or sides, and move on. Loading was a "you gotta build a solid brick wall out of boxes" poo poo that took a lot longer, and back then their scanners were pretty terrible, so I'd wind up having to punch in way too many tracking numbers. It's not like the walls ever held together past the first pothole anyway.
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Unload has scanners on the belt that scan the top and sides of every box coming off of the truck. Didn't have to read anything, everything was coming off the truck. Unload was also expected to handle something like 1200 items per hour. With load, I'd have to read (and scan) each label. The scanner I had wouldn't tell me if I had a missort or if it was a different level of service (I was only supposed to load ground). They may have changed the scanners a bit, this was 10+ years ago.
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ExplodingSims posted:A. I have a relevant story. My dad used to work for UPS when he was going to college in the '70s, and he confirmed that they used trucks FOR-EVER there. He said they still had trucks from the '50s when he was there. I'm pretty sure the only reason they aren't still running 50s trucks is emissions and economy. The newer trucks have anti-idle built in, and even the older trucks (which seem to be early to mid 90s now) monitor WAY TOO MUCH poo poo. Take off your seatbelt before you hit the engine stop button? You get bitched out. Hit the start button without your seatbelt on? You get bitched out. Use reverse more than a couple of minutes for the entire route combined, you got bitched out. Hit the start button without the cargo door being fully closed (which was a bitch to get to latch), get bitched out. Try to hit the start engine button without using the clicker first, get bitched out (each driver had a keyfob-like device that would unlock the bulkhead door, and also enable the starter). Deviate from the trace (route), you get bitched out, even though a good chunk of the poo poo in the truck was time-critical (overnight, 2 day, etc - stuff that was supposed to be delivered by 10am - he always ran that stuff first). The computer would often try to send you back and forth across major roads instead of letting you run the entire neighborhood, which would add a lot of time to the route - the driver I rode with knew it was faster to knock out the entire subdivision before trying to get across a busy road into the neighboring subdivision. He said he got bitched out constantly over that, but also said he rarely failed to deliver everything in the truck, while most drivers would come back with a lot more than he did. Thank gently caress the helper seatbelt wasn't monitored on the truck I was on - I was usually already out of the seat with a package in my hands, holding on to the (outside) oh poo poo handle, before the truck stopped, but the driver would hit the stop button a few hundred feet before he had to stop and just let the engine compression stop it. The one time he took lunch with me in the truck, every minute or so the truck would lurch slightly. Thought it was my imagination, asked him about it, he said "oh, yeah, this thing has so many miles that it's way down on compression.. thanks for noticing *yanks parking brake and puts truck in reverse instead of 2nd*". He was also very safety conscious, and would always make sure I had my seat belt fastened before he really got moving. I got really good at the double handed seatbelt bit, since the jump seat seatbelts are terrible for fat people. There were a few times where he'd tell me "get your belt on!", and I'd respond "I'm working on it, just go!". But he also knocked it into neutral not once, but twice, while I was walking in front of the truck. The first time was a serious OH gently caress moment since it almost hit me, and almost hit a car - I had to bang on the truck and yell TRUCK'S ROLLING!. He ran out of the cargo area and jumped on the brake. I know I shouldn't have been walking in front of it, but OTOH he was supposed to be using the parking brake. The second time I just pounded on the side and yelled STOP TRYING TO KILL ME! and again... he jumped on the brake. The one I was in was definitely a turbo diesel (Navistar V8 by the tag, assuming turbo by the whistling and screeching from the intake when he stood on it), it seems so weird that they've started moving to a gasoline fleet. Those trucks ride a lot better than I expected though. You won't mistake them for a passenger car of any kind (unless it's something from Oregon Trail being dragged by horses shortly before you die of dysentery), but they aren't that much worse than my stepdad's F-150. The turning radius on them is seriously amazing too, he could do a 3 point u-turn in the same space that my Saturn used. Leperflesh posted:Yeah when I was unloading (I think around... 1996? 7?) we had to scan items ourselves as we put them on the exit belt. And it was indeed 1200 per hour. Unloading could be dangerous, you had to pull down those walls of poo poo, usually some jerk would put a very heavy box right on top, and in order to get the rollers in the trailer to be remotely useful they'd tilt the whole trailer back a few degrees, so those walls wanted really badly to crush you. I started in 2003 or 2004 (I have my employee ID in my car, actually - I could scan it if you guys want to see terrible 90s haircuts). The unload belt had a bunch of lasers on it by then. And.... hahahahahahahahaha, walls never, ever made it when I worked there. You had to work up a "unlock door, jump the gently caress out of the way without hurting yourself" strategy. If they'd actually bothered to put up the netting, only a few dozen packages would try to kill you as the door opened. Otherwise the door would jam, you'd have to reach under it to dislodge poo poo, you would get pummeled with boxes, it'd jam again, repeat rinse etc. I tried to build decent walls; I'd always wind up helping the guy in the next truck once I was done, who was literal OCD about his walls being perfect. He got up in my face and shoved me out of the trailer when I questioned why it had to be perfectly perfect. But union, etc, so nothing came of it. Also Dell boxes made really good step stools. They were always the strongest boxes, probably because they use a 3x3x3 box loaded with styrofoam for a monitor. For some reason all of the unloads I did had roll-up doors on the trailers, while all the loads I did were drop floors with swing doors (so the truck would have to pull them out a bit to close the doors). The trucks would hook up to the trailer while I was still loading, and I got knocked on my rear end plenty of times by the jolt (there were always plenty of boxes marked FRAGILE to cushion my fall). the only warning you had about a truck hooking up is you'd hear a diesel engine for a couple of seconds before a mini-earthquake happened. There were a couple of times where the tractor hooked up, then immediately pulled the trailer away from the dock so the driver could close the doors. I taught those drivers a lot of new words, and since being on the ground was a fireable offense for me, I wouldn't budge until the driver got it back to the dock. Breakfast Feud posted:What's the word on Mercedes inline 5 diesels? 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