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zoom3+1=4 Send message Joined: 30 Nov 03 Posts: 65709 Credit: 55,293,173 RAC: 49 |
Ah yes. Paid by the mile as the crow files. Always pick the shortest route bridge heights be damned. Drive more hours than permitted. It gets you a bigger paycheck. That and Bob tail trucks. The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's |
tullio Send message Joined: 9 Apr 04 Posts: 8797 Credit: 2,930,782 RAC: 1 |
The best way to keep terrorists out of airplanes is to screen the passengers before allowing them on board. I have flown a few times with El Al and you get a first interview by a pretty girl. Then a second interview by another girl and may God help you if only a detail is different from the first interview. It takes about one hour, so you have to check in three hours before your departure time. Tullio |
zoom3+1=4 Send message Joined: 30 Nov 03 Posts: 65709 Credit: 55,293,173 RAC: 49 |
The best way to keep terrorists out of airplanes is to screen the passengers before allowing them on board. I have flown a few times with El Al and you get a first interview by a pretty girl. Then a second interview by another girl and may God help you if only a detail is different from the first interview. It takes about one hour, so you have to check in three hours before your departure time. And now members of flight crews can be a threat, all cause of that Germanwings crash, I read the autopilot was set to descend from 38,000 feet to 100 feet and the co-pilot locked Himself in the flight deck all by Himself, turns out the co-pilot was unfit to fly and was hiding the fact that He was sick. The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's |
Donald L. Johnson Send message Joined: 5 Aug 02 Posts: 8240 Credit: 14,654,533 RAC: 20 |
Ah yes. Paid by the mile as the crow files. Always pick the shortest route bridge heights be damned. Drive more hours than permitted. It gets you a bigger paycheck. I've seen extra-tall trainers marked with the trailer height on the rear doors - 110 Inches inside height. I used to know what the standard floor height was, I'd guess about 5 feet, so that puts the trailer roof at 14-4. But the few professional drivers I know do know how tall their rigs are, and which bridges to detour around...... Donald Infernal Optimist / Submariner, retired |
tullio Send message Joined: 9 Apr 04 Posts: 8797 Credit: 2,930,782 RAC: 1 |
As a answer to Chris I believe that a captain would choose to be shot rather than leaving a terrorist to enter the flight deck.I have a brother who is a sea captain and I know how they feel.Don't mention Schettino, he is an exception, not the rule. Tullio |
J. Mileski Send message Joined: 9 Jun 02 Posts: 632 Credit: 172,116,532 RAC: 572 |
Ah yes. Paid by the mile as the crow files. Always pick the shortest route bridge heights be damned. Drive more hours than permitted. It gets you a bigger paycheck. Those trailers are not taller than 13'6". 110" inside hight is gained by lowering the floor and running on low profile tires. Even the truck tractors are on low profile tires. I've seen 5th wheel heights as low as 30". Granted this was special order. The carrier had loads that cube out before grossing out. If you want to run the lower 48 you're limited to 13'6", although some states do allow taller trucks. |
Donald L. Johnson Send message Joined: 5 Aug 02 Posts: 8240 Credit: 14,654,533 RAC: 20 |
Ah yes. Paid by the mile as the crow files. Always pick the shortest route bridge heights be damned. Drive more hours than permitted. It gets you a bigger paycheck. Thanks for the correction. Learn something every day. Donald Infernal Optimist / Submariner, retired |
Mike Send message Joined: 17 Feb 01 Posts: 34253 Credit: 79,922,639 RAC: 80 |
Would the trucking industry be interested or is it still cheaper by rail freight? You certainly won`t drive through russia with a truck. We have a factory in russia its simply a pain in the a.... With each crime and every kindness we birth our future. |
Richard Haselgrove Send message Joined: 4 Jul 99 Posts: 14649 Credit: 200,643,578 RAC: 874 |
Add "the wrong sort of plastic bag" to the list of British rail excuses! http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/12622333.Plastic_bag_blamed_for_train_cancellations_on_Aire_Valley_line/ |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30608 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
Add "the wrong sort of plastic bag" to the list of British rail excuses! http://www.dailybreeze.com/general-news/20130530/what-happens-when-mylar-balloons-meet-power-lines-video |
Donald L. Johnson Send message Joined: 5 Aug 02 Posts: 8240 Credit: 14,654,533 RAC: 20 |
Would the trucking industry be interested or is it still cheaper by rail freight? When I read the headline, I thought of a book I read in the 1980's - "A Trans-Atlantic Tunnel, Hurrah!" by Harry Harrison. The Colonists LOST the revolution, and the USA is still a part of the British Empire. A direct descendant of George Washington is chief engineer of a company building a railroad tunnel from Britain to New York. I'm not sure if a 55-mile-long tunnel under the Bering Strait would be feasible. Maybe an elevated causeway, like the road to Key West, Florida. Given the cold and the nasty weather up there, just about anything bridging the two countries would be an engineering challenge, to say the least... Donald Infernal Optimist / Submariner, retired |
zoom3+1=4 Send message Joined: 30 Nov 03 Posts: 65709 Credit: 55,293,173 RAC: 49 |
Would the trucking industry be interested or is it still cheaper by rail freight? Not in one long stretch, but to the Diomede islands, one Russian(Big Diomede) and one American(Little Diomede), with a connecting tunnel between them, this should be possible, since the distance from Siberia to Big Diomede island and the distance from Alaska to Little Diomede island isn't greater than the distance the Chunnel used in that set of 3 tunnels under the English Channel, and lastly Big and Little are close enough that the last tunnels wouldn't be very long and tunnels would be better than trying to cope with arctic weather on a roadway. The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's |
James Sotherden Send message Joined: 16 May 99 Posts: 10436 Credit: 110,373,059 RAC: 54 |
Would the trucking industry be interested or is it still cheaper by rail freight? I dont think A bridge is viable. I was staitiond at Shemya AFB in the Aleutions. The North side of the Island was the Bering Sea, the other was the North Pacific. During a williwaw which just means a storm in Aleut. The winds I expierenced got up to 130 MPH and stayed there for 2 days. You can just think how big the waves were. [/quote] Old James |
Donald L. Johnson Send message Joined: 5 Aug 02 Posts: 8240 Credit: 14,654,533 RAC: 20 |
Would the trucking industry be interested or is it still cheaper by rail freight? 130 mph winds - that's what, an EF-5 hurricane/typhoon? Yeah, wouoldn't want to be caught on a bridge or causway in those winds......... Donald Infernal Optimist / Submariner, retired |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24877 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
A terrible loss Unfortunately, I see this every day - if not on the road, then by customers calling here with their whole family in the vehicle - Vehicles meant to carry 4/5 people actually carrying 7/8 & sometimes more - nothing can be said otherwise the "racist" card enters the picture. |
Gordon Lowe Send message Joined: 5 Nov 00 Posts: 12094 Credit: 6,317,865 RAC: 0 |
Vehicles meant to carry 4/5 people actually carrying 7/8 & sometimes more Packing list The mind is a weird and mysterious place |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24877 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
I find the last 2 posts puerile & insensitive. Should have known better, after all, this is the Net. |
Richard Haselgrove Send message Joined: 4 Jul 99 Posts: 14649 Credit: 200,643,578 RAC: 874 |
I find the last 2 posts puerile & insensitive. Should have known better, after all, this is the Net. It was you who chose to link this crash report to a comment about over-occupancy - and exaggerated it, by suggesting 7/8 people was a level of occupancy that would cause you concern (according to the local newspaper, there were six people in the car, three of them children). Instead, I would have thought that you would have been on firmer ground if you had linked it to the earlier discussion of speed limits on busy urban roads. |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24877 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
It was you who chose to link this crash report to a comment about over-occupancy - and exaggerated it, by suggesting 7/8 people was a level of occupancy that would cause you concern No exaggeration, actually seen 8 & more in a 5 seater vehicle. As to why I made that comment... WTH has a backpacking list got to do with the tragedy linked? As to the 2nd post... Bottom left of the first photo, much of what many Net posters are. |
Gordon Lowe Send message Joined: 5 Nov 00 Posts: 12094 Credit: 6,317,865 RAC: 0 |
I'm sorry. I posted that as a random picture of an overcrowded vehicle for some tongue in cheek humor. The mind is a weird and mysterious place |
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