The Coffee House

[davidharmier60]

I was riding I-20 into DFW. I had a light load. There was snow apparently over ice.
I would toggle the trailer brake lever and the trailer would depart the lane.
I blasted several piles of snow! I was having a ball!

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[limr30 3]

I'm an excellent driver.

Based on what standard??

Any standard

 

[tirediron]

...SOME truckers are the absolute worst drivers out there...

FTFY. Truckers are a lot like photographers. There are two distinct classes. One is the, "I quit skewl in grade three... I need weed money... mehh... I'll got get a commercial driving license" (Fauxtographer - Wal-mar Portrait Centre). The other is the "I'm a professional, this is a serious job and I take pride in it and will do the best job I can" (Professional Photographer).

Unfortunately because you really don't need a lot of book learnin' to get a commercial driver's license in most places, it's attractive to people with lesser education and/or motivation. Chances are most of the people you're talking about are driving short-haul for someone else. The owner/operators tend to be from the latter category and they're careful with their $250,000 - 400,000 investment and take pride in their work like any small business owner does.

 

[smoke665]

I maintained my Class A license when I retired because of our RV and the Fire Dept. Dropped the Hazmat, doubles and commercial status which relieved me of maintaining a physical card. I didn't drive that much, but my drivers knew I could and would fly out, pick up my truck and leave them on the side of the road if they pulled anything, but more often when someone got sick or hurt, I would go get them. It was a fun diversion at times but not a job for me.

 

[smoke665]

I suspect @davidharmier60 was similar to some of the drivers I had that contributed to my chronic insomnia!

 

[davidharmier60]

If I told you about Chicago I would CERTAINLY be one....

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[smoke665]

@tirediron we were mostly over the road witn both company and owner operators. 60 percent of our runs were drop and hook with the other 40 being customer locations. All drivers were expected to run 3000 miles a week legally. Some could, some couldn't. My all time favorite, most professional driver was a woman. She started with me, and stayed till the end. The men learned quickly to respect her abilities, she could out drive any man in the fleet and kick their $$$ if they got in her way while doing it.

 

[waday]

My favorite is when people apply their brake going uphill on snow covered roads.

I live at the bottom of a hill that doesn't lead anywhere useful, so I always have to go up.

A couple of weeks ago, I nearly got stranded on a street because a school bus was going up the hill at 7 mph. 1st gear is a non-starter in the snow, and I simply can't go that slow in 2nd.

Oof, that's hard.

I used to live in the middle of a hill. Not a steep hill, but steep enough when it was icy or snowy. People would pull onto the road, and try to go uphill so slow that they'd get stuck, then either drift to the side or slide down the hill backwards.

Someone actually recorded cars on that street during an icy storm and put it on YouTube several years ago. Tried to find it again now, and no luck.

 

[tirediron]

@tirediron we were mostly over the road witn both company and owner operators. 60 percent of our runs were drop and hook with the other 40 being customer locations. All drivers were expected to run 3000 miles a week legally. Some could, some couldn't. My all time favorite, most professional driver was a woman. She started with me, and stayed till the end. The men learned quickly to respect her abilities, she could out drive any man in the fleet and kick their $$$ if they got in her way while doing it.

OTR tends to attract the more professional drivers; people that just want a buck and don't take any pride in their job are more the day cab set... put in your six, eight hours, clock out and go home. Driving a big truck well, and safely is a helluva skill. If you ever want to see some really skilled long haulers, check out the Aussie road-train truckees. These guys are running 3, 4 and 5 trailers on gravel washboard, and the 'roo bumper? Yeah... NOT just a nick-name!

 

[JonA_CT]

Our snowfall forecast is up to 12-18” via NWS.

I also got official word back from Nikon that they’ll be replacing my D600 with a brandy-new D610. It almost feels like stealing since I bought my D600 assuming I’d be able to do it in the future.

Now I’m wondering if I should flip it for the D750 or D800.

 

[SquarePeg37 7]

They have just announced school is canceled for tomorrow for our city. Expected snowfall is now predicted 6-10" but with blizzard conditions due to the expected gusts up to 70 mph. Keep your fingers crossed for no power outages for me please. We'll all be huddled on the sectional under our blankets with our smartphones and tablets.

On a mostly unrelated note - today I dropped my comforter off at the laudramat to be washed and dried. I can do it at home but it takes forever in my smallish dryer. They ruined it. It is completed burned/brown in several spots. That comforter was a score on Black Friday a few years ago - a Ralph Lauren medium weight down filled baffle box 500 thread count masterpiece. I got a super steal on it at only $85. I just checked and to order it now would be $540. WHAT???? I've sent the copy of the website to the laundry as requested and am waiting to hear back from them. Do you think they owe me the cost I paid or the replacement cost? Meanwhile it's going to be a very cold night so I've had to order a new one (not as nice from Kohls for $200 as I'm not paying $540 unless they reimburse me the full $540) and now I have to run out to pick it up tonight. Normally I would wait but if we get snowed in and lose power, the guest blankets will not do.

 

[smoke665]

Winter Bomb Cyclone???? Temperatures on the East coast lower than Mars??? WTH?? Hope all the East coast TPF crew has some warm places to go. Winter ‘Bomb Cyclone’ Threatens East Coast, Bringing Temps Colder Than Mars

 

[Frank F.]

My hometown features DHL Headquartes, the UNFCCC and several other UN offices

What is in the picture?

right at the Rhine River Promenade there is the old German Parliamentary building with the "Waterwork" building belonging to a collection of buildings in the parliamentay garden
behind that the flat white "Schürmann-Bau" housing the Deutsche Welle foreign broadcasting service
big one on the left is the "Langer Eugen", the old parliamentary administration building now used exclusively by the United Nations
behind that is the DHL World Headquarters Post Tower - Wikipedia build by Helmut Jahn and partners: Helmut Jahn - Wikipedia
The Antennae like sculpture in red is "L'Allumé" by Mark di Suvero

 

[JonA_CT]

There’s no bread, eggs, or milk left at the store, and I saw two grown women fighting over a rotisserie chicken.

Yup, it’s a nor’easter alright.

(True story....I typically make fun of these people, but back a few years ago, Nemo stranded us in our house for 4 days. I was happy we stocked up on that stuff, although we wouldn’t have starved or anything haha)

 

[davidharmier60]

Store I work at runs low on bread a lot and as a rule our weather is docile.

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