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Old 09-18-2006, 01:23 PM
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Weird driving positions...Semi trucks.

Today I saw an owner driver Kenworth with a level steering wheel ( Flat, like an old Ford model T, as opposed to the normal angle . ) at chin height,
and the drivers eye level with bottom of windshield.

How in blazes can you see to drive like that !

Drove semi myself all over Europe, but never saw the likes of this...how can you possibley judge where you are on the road ? I liked my eye level to be half way up the windshield.

While I'm at it, what's with this girls...'sleeves below the knuckles' thing now ?

Fer goodness sake.....pull yer sleeves up, turn yer hat round, put the blasted phone down and concentrate on ya drivin' !

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Old 09-18-2006, 03:21 PM
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it was a midget driving, Oh excuse me, it was a vertically challenged individual.
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Old 09-18-2006, 03:43 PM
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Wish it where that simple Mistress.......he was normal size but he was sitting on a seat that must have been 4 inches of the cab floor.

He was in an 'ape hanger' position, like on a hog.

The gear shift knob was level with steering wheel.


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Old 09-20-2006, 12:30 AM
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Strange bird.

Today I saw a lady with one pants leg rolled up to just under her knee, and the other one full length. THAT caught my eye but not much else...
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Old 09-20-2006, 08:28 AM
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was it jet black with no chrome whatsoever.also did it have suicide doors.if so it belongs to a guy with a russian sounding name,dvorek or something like that,he's won some supertruck award like 2 or 3 years in a row with it.
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Old 09-20-2006, 09:05 AM
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Pretty soon semis won't have drivers at all. Hell, surgery can be performed remotely now, so why not driving trucks? Picture a big control room full of virtual drivers, each controlling their rig via cameras, whereever it might be. There would no longer be a need for down time due to meals and sleeping, just put a new guy in the booth.
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Old 09-20-2006, 09:28 AM
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Pretty soon semis won't have drivers at all. Hell, surgery can be performed remotely now, so why not driving trucks? Picture a big control room full of virtual drivers, each controlling their rig via cameras, whereever it might be. There would no longer be a need for down time due to meals and sleeping, just put a new guy in the booth.
What makes you think there is a pilot behind those locked doors on your last commuter flight ?


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Old 09-20-2006, 09:34 AM
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was it jet black with no chrome whatsoever.also did it have suicide doors.if so it belongs to a guy with a russian sounding name,dvorek or something like that,he's won some supertruck award like 2 or 3 years in a row with it.
thats a nice truck he has, if i had a truck it would have to be a black peterbuilt extened frame with a single bed and gloos black everything and very little chrome, and low, very low to the ground..
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Old 09-20-2006, 09:46 AM
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See.....this is what happens when you let the plane decide !

http://www.avantnews.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=161

And you thought I was jus' kiddin' wiv ya.




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Old 09-20-2006, 09:58 AM
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See.....this is what happens when you let the plane decide !

http://www.avantnews.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=161

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Old 09-20-2006, 02:03 PM
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........careful.........people will believe that crap........
Yeah, so ?... They believed Bush too, din't they ?

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Old 09-20-2006, 02:05 PM
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Strange bird.

Today I saw a lady with one pants leg rolled up to just under her knee, and the other one full length. THAT caught my eye but not much else...
Mason ? Oh....wadda minute....that's BOTH pant legs innit ?


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Yeah, so ?... They believed Bush too, din't they ?

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Yeah.........some still do..........

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