But I have also see the sticker on the back of some of them that says................
Pass to my right and I cannot SEE you/.

Here most trucks will have a sign "If you can't see my mirrors, then I can't see you."

Some have a sign on the left, "Passing side" and the sign on the right "Suicide"
Some of them have a line drawing of a car getting crushed in a right turn.

If I'm near a semi truck, I'm not there for long, unless there is no other choice, like when the fwy becomes a parking lot...

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

Flaps failure, it looks like the TU 154 disaster is due to this according to the black boxes being recovered. But should not a plane captain test his flaps before taking off?
Tullio

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Flaps failure, it looks like the TU 154 disaster is due to this according to the black boxes being recovered. But should not a plane captain test his flaps before taking off?
Tullio

On the ground they aren't under load.

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Grant
Darwin NT

Flaps failure, it looks like the TU 154 disaster is due to this according to the black boxes being recovered. But should not a plane captain test his flaps before taking off?
Tullio

Will it be found to be similar to Dan-Air Flight 0034

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Flaps failure, it looks like the TU 154 disaster is due to this according to the black boxes being recovered. But should not a plane captain test his flaps before taking off?
Tullio

On the ground they aren't under load.

So true, some bit of FOD blown up from the runway in the hinge or the like and one side doesn't retract.

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Learners allowed on motorways

That's really f-ing sensible , what pri#k drempt that one up ?

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Life is what you make of it :-)

When i'm good i'm very good , but when i'm bad i'm shi#eloads better ;-) In't I " buttercups " p.m.s.l at authoritie !!;-)

This is included in german drivers license for decades.
Needless to say the lerner has to pay it.

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With each crime and every kindness we birth our future.

Safer roads? L O L

I'm not drunk so safe to drive

Safer roads? L O L

I'm not drunk so safe to drive

From that link,
The AA said the numbers were "astonishing" and called for the process of returning licences to banned drivers to be reviewed.
Here in the NT of Australia the usual report is along the lines of "So & so was caught DUI (Driving Under the Influence) while XXX over the limit. They were unlicensed, the vehicle unregistered & uninsured and it was their 3-7th offence (pick a number)."
The next most common article "There was a single vehicle rollover and 1-10 people were seriously injured/killed. The driver was arrested & blew over the legal limit & they were unlicensed, the vehicle unregistered & uninsured and it was their 2-7th offense."

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Grant
Darwin NT

Feel like flying in a plane with a drunk pilot?
These passengers didn't.
"In the footage the pilot is barely able to walk through the security check at Juanda International Airport in Surabaya, and struggles to collect his belongings from the x-ray conveyor belt.
Incredibly, captain Tekad Purna was allowed to board the plane but passengers rioted when they heard him over the PA."

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Grant
Darwin NT

This is why you should leave you car in gear (or park) and make sure the handbrake is on when you park it.
A four-wheel drive has fallen off a barge heading to Fraser Island and sunk.

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Grant
Darwin NT

Learners allowed on motorways

For car drivers, the changes would mean that competent learners would be able to have lessons on motorways with an approved driving instructor in a dual controlled vehicle. It will be up to driving instructors to decide if their students are capable enough to go on to the motorway

BBC Report

Motorways are the equivalent of our interstates, right?

When I took driver's ed. (34 years ago), we had one day when the lesson took us on the interstate. There were 3 students and the instructor. Student 1 drove out of the school and a few miles to the entrance, then a mile or so down and pulled over. The instructor watched for a gap in traffic and we switched to student 2, who drove to the next exit, then reentered in the other direction. Again we pulled over and switched to student 3, who exited the highway and drove back to the school.

(I don't know if they still do this.)

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David
Sitting on my butt while others boldly go,
Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri.

I wasn't trained on fwys by the company dad had hired to instruct Me with, He did the fwys, after I'd learned enough and I had My learners permit, a learners permit needs a licensed driver in California. The company taught Me on the tight streets of San Pedro CA(a suburb of the City of Los Angeles, San Pedro used to be its own city at one time). He hired the company cause He thought I needed to know how to drive, and cause He needed to make up for lost time, little did either of US realize He'd be gone for good by age 73, He was 62 or so when He paid for My driving instruction, We had a few things unsaid to each other, I didn't know He was a WWII Medic in the US Army in Europe(N.Africa, Sicily, Anzio, N.France, Occupied Germany until Oct 1946), He was recommended for 2 commendations for His paper work on Allied and POW Patients(He was a Corporal right after Bootcamp), He was My hero, Me I had a First Aid Merit Badge, He never told Me what He did, cause He thought I'd be ashamed of what He did, He didn't kill anybody, He saved lives, He's a real hero, anyone can kill, even I could kill, which is another reason why I don't want anything to do with a weapon anymore, I was very good at shooting... If it moved, I could hit it, I didn't miss, hurt My right arm, and I'd switch to My left arm, and keep shooting, and I wouldn't be easy to spot either.

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

Typical Southern California Road https://goo.gl/maps/61EkVSH1EUA2
Count the lanes.

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Check your facts - the UK National speed limit for all dual carriageways, unless otherwise signed is 70mph for cars. Lower limits apply for heavier vehicles and when towing.

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Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

After the Jimmy Carter national limit of 55 was repealed, speed limits reverted to state control (actually, they always were -- speed limits come under the Constitutional heading of "Powers Not Given to the Congress are Reserved to the States," which was circumvented by Congress saying states couldn't have federal highway funding if they didn't lower the limit to 55). The many states vary in their practices (within a few federal guidelines having to do with nearby population). I think the fastest anywhere in Illinois is 70. I believe Indiana is faster, at least on I-65. Montana initially went back to no daytime limit*, subject to trooper's judgment of safety, but I believe the feds stepped in again and said there had to be some limit, so now it's 95.

The Jeep Grand Cherokee I used to own started to shimmy above 80, but my current Chevy Trailblazer is quite comfortable at 90, which is as high as I've tried to take it.

*In the late '80s, General Motors came out with a new minivan in the Chevrolet and Pontiac lines, the latter being called the Montana. Test drivers for one of the car magazines (Car & Driver, Popular Mechanics, etc. -- I forget which it was) decided the appropriate place to try out a Montana would be Montana. Getting on an interstate there, they floored it and held it there. Eventually, they reached 113 MPH, at the expense of air conditioning on a hot summer day -- apparently, the computer decided if they wanted that much speed they must be serious and automatically cut out a few auxiliaries. After a few minutes of sweating, they backed off just a teeny bit and the air came back on... and they were still going 112. Then a trooper pulled them over for unsafe speed, but when he learned who they were, he decided they were professionals who knew how to drive safely at that speed and didn't give them a ticket. No daytime limit, after all.

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David
Sitting on my butt while others boldly go,
Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri.

*Getting on an interstate there, they floored it and held it there. Eventually, they reached 113 MPH, at the expense of air conditioning on a hot summer day -- apparently, the computer decided if they wanted that much speed they must be serious and automatically cut out a few auxiliaries. After a few minutes of sweating, they backed off just a teeny bit and the air came back on... and they were still going 112.

Most cars, if you are floored have a switch that cuts off the compressor to the A/C. Better performance for merging. Most people don't hold it floored so long as to sweat.

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Not much has changed stats wise since that RAC report was published.

Which suggests it has nothing to do with speed but traffic density and the maintenance level of the roads.

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That may be true, but then the stats would show a much higher figure for motorway accidents if this was true:

Personally I find that the average driver in the average car in the UK is not that safe at 70mph. In any case most do 80mph anyway