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Post by wvengineer on May 19, 2016 0:04:58 GMT
I wanted to start a thread similar to the Everyday WTF thread, but to talk about the irony we see in everyday life.
To start off, yesterday, I got caught in a traffic jam on the interstate in between towns, in a fairly remote part of the road. Traffic was stopped for 45 minutes When it finally cleared up, I saw that it was a semi trailer that caught fire, probably from overheating the breaks. The trailer buckled under the weight of its load. What was the load? A trailer full of bottled water!
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Post by the light works on May 20, 2016 0:38:33 GMT
this sounds promising.
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Post by OziRiS on May 20, 2016 1:03:59 GMT
Girlfriend works as a teacher's assistant at a local boarding school and it's final exam season.
Yesterday she came home and told me about a kid in one of her classes who was writing a synopsis for his English exam when he spilled a cup of coffee onto his laptop, which of course killed it instantly.
What was the chosen subject of his synopsis?
The plights of Columbian coffee farmers.
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Post by silverdragon on May 21, 2016 5:47:24 GMT
My Youngest is reading past exam papers, and answer, to aid hi passing his test.
Yesterday he bought home an exam paper and essay used to answer it...
Its my Elder kids work.
Question, should he be asking royalty fees for them using his work?.
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Post by the light works on May 21, 2016 6:44:48 GMT
My Youngest is reading past exam papers, and answer, to aid hi passing his test. Yesterday he bought home an exam paper and essay used to answer it... Its my Elder kids work. Question, should he be asking royalty fees for them using his work?. my question would be if the teacher is admitting to cribbing study aids off previous students' exams. |
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Post by wvengineer on Jun 6, 2016 9:41:13 GMT
Driving down the freeway, At one point, I'm just going along, cruse control set to a good, reasonable speed. At one point, I look in my mirror and see a large semi right on my tail. I can't even see the head lights it was so close. After a mile or so he pulls around and passes me. On the back side of the trailer was a sign warning people not to tailgate. I think that sign was aimed at the wrong people.
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Post by mrfatso on Jun 6, 2016 15:41:17 GMT
Similarly we were driving along a country lane behind 2 slow moving vintage tractors presumably attending a show. From behind us a white van man decided to overtake us and the two tractors on a stretch of road that is windy and has high hedges meaning you cannot see oncoming traffic.
On the rear of his van is the sign for the safe driving scheme used by many companies in the UK, if I had my camera to had I would have filmed it and sent them the video, 'Safe Driving' my arse.
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Post by WhutScreenName on Jun 6, 2016 20:39:30 GMT
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Post by the light works on Jun 7, 2016 5:04:14 GMT
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Post by silverdragon on Jun 7, 2016 6:13:50 GMT
Driving down the freeway, At one point, I'm just going along, cruse control set to a good, reasonable speed. At one point, I look in my mirror and see a large semi right on my tail. I can't even see the head lights it was so close. After a mile or so he pulls around and passes me. On the back side of the trailer was a sign warning people not to tailgate. I think that sign was aimed at the wrong people. TLW would have noticed the truck was from that great company S.W.I.F.T..... Not all Truck drivers deserve their licence. And I daily see other trucks so close to my own, it looks in the mirrors that I am towing a double trailer, 'cos I cant see their cab at all. Quandary, do I "Brake check" them lightly, or should I wait until I DO have to stomp the brakes to see if the can stop.... My answer is a likkel light tap now and again, just to put the message over. Mostly just lighting up the bulbs, not actually slowing any..... If that doesnt work, I slow down gently, let 'em pass, and get back to not having to worry about them and missing the entertainment from the front window.... I dont HAVE to get there before I get there...?... |
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Post by OziRiS on Jun 12, 2016 23:35:32 GMT
Driving down the freeway, At one point, I'm just going along, cruse control set to a good, reasonable speed. At one point, I look in my mirror and see a large semi right on my tail. I can't even see the head lights it was so close. After a mile or so he pulls around and passes me. On the back side of the trailer was a sign warning people not to tailgate. I think that sign was aimed at the wrong people. TLW would have noticed the truck was from that great company S.W.I.F.T..... Not all Truck drivers deserve their licence. And I daily see other trucks so close to my own, it looks in the mirrors that I am towing a double trailer, 'cos I cant see their cab at all. Quandary, do I "Brake check" them lightly, or should I wait until I DO have to stomp the brakes to see if the can stop.... My answer is a likkel light tap now and again, just to put the message over. Mostly just lighting up the bulbs, not actually slowing any..... If that doesnt work, I slow down gently, let 'em pass, and get back to not having to worry about them and missing the entertainment from the front window.... I dont HAVE to get there before I get there...?... I wish more truck drivers would think like that over here. In many cases, truck drivers over here tailgate each other so closely that you'd be lucky if a professional stunt driver with a death wish was willing and able to put a Smart in between two of them. |
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Post by the light works on Jun 13, 2016 4:28:27 GMT
TLW would have noticed the truck was from that great company S.W.I.F.T..... Not all Truck drivers deserve their licence. And I daily see other trucks so close to my own, it looks in the mirrors that I am towing a double trailer, 'cos I cant see their cab at all. Quandary, do I "Brake check" them lightly, or should I wait until I DO have to stomp the brakes to see if the can stop.... My answer is a likkel light tap now and again, just to put the message over. Mostly just lighting up the bulbs, not actually slowing any..... If that doesnt work, I slow down gently, let 'em pass, and get back to not having to worry about them and missing the entertainment from the front window.... I dont HAVE to get there before I get there...?... I wish more truck drivers would think like that over here. In many cases, truck drivers over here tailgate each other so closely that you'd be lucky if a professional stunt driver with a death wish was willing and able to put a Smart in between two of them. here they make special attachments for that.  and they can get rid of the extra drivers. |
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Post by silverdragon on Jun 13, 2016 9:01:19 GMT
TLW would have noticed the truck was from that great company S.W.I.F.T..... Not all Truck drivers deserve their licence. And I daily see other trucks so close to my own, it looks in the mirrors that I am towing a double trailer, 'cos I cant see their cab at all. Quandary, do I "Brake check" them lightly, or should I wait until I DO have to stomp the brakes to see if the can stop.... My answer is a likkel light tap now and again, just to put the message over. Mostly just lighting up the bulbs, not actually slowing any..... If that doesnt work, I slow down gently, let 'em pass, and get back to not having to worry about them and missing the entertainment from the front window.... I dont HAVE to get there before I get there...?... I wish more truck drivers would think like that over here. In many cases, truck drivers over here tailgate each other so closely that you'd be lucky if a professional stunt driver with a death wish was willing and able to put a Smart in between two of them. I am starting to see this, more "down south" that up here away from ferry ports, and mostly the plates denote foreign drivers. I may believe Travis Pastrama{SP} may be able to get his dodge-the-cone car between some of them, but not at speeds below 30mph.. and what worrying me, is this is down heavily populated roads in urban settings. Perhaps they have better brakes than I do?... IDK, otherwise, even in my favoured Volvo FH16, I "would not try that at home", and definitely not away. |
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Post by OziRiS on Jun 14, 2016 11:52:46 GMT
I wish more truck drivers would think like that over here. In many cases, truck drivers over here tailgate each other so closely that you'd be lucky if a professional stunt driver with a death wish was willing and able to put a Smart in between two of them. I am starting to see this, more "down south" that up here away from ferry ports, and mostly the plates denote foreign drivers. I may believe Travis Pastrama{SP} may be able to get his dodge-the-cone car between some of them, but not at speeds below 30mph.. and what worrying me, is this is down heavily populated roads in urban settings. Perhaps they have better brakes than I do?... IDK, otherwise, even in my favoured Volvo FH16, I "would not try that at home", and definitely not away. And you've got it right. Ask any truck driving instructor over here and they'll tell you that tailgating that close is complete madness. I've had dealings with 9 different instructors from three different driving schools and they all try to teach new drivers to keep a resonable distance, yet all of them end up doing "what everyone else is doing", because if they didn't, they'd never get anywhere on time. Wait, what? How can what everyone else is doing affect when you get to where you're going? Simple. If you try to keep your distance to the truck in front of you, another truck driver will overtake you and put himself in between. To keep your distance to him, you'll have to slow down a bit and fall back and that's when the next one decides to jump the queue and so on and so forth. Before you know it, you'll be doing an average of 70 kph instead of 80 kph the entire way to your destination and you'll be late. Get chewed out for that enough times and you'll stop trying to keep your distance, because you know it's futile and you'll just end up getting yelled at for being late. |
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Post by the light works on Jun 14, 2016 13:53:39 GMT
I am starting to see this, more "down south" that up here away from ferry ports, and mostly the plates denote foreign drivers. I may believe Travis Pastrama{SP} may be able to get his dodge-the-cone car between some of them, but not at speeds below 30mph.. and what worrying me, is this is down heavily populated roads in urban settings. Perhaps they have better brakes than I do?... IDK, otherwise, even in my favoured Volvo FH16, I "would not try that at home", and definitely not away. And you've got it right. Ask any truck driving instructor over here and they'll tell you that tailgating that close is complete madness. I've had dealings with 9 different instructors from three different driving schools and they all try to teach new drivers to keep a resonable distance, yet all of them end up doing "what everyone else is doing", because if they didn't, they'd never get anywhere on time. Wait, what? How can what everyone else is doing affect when you get to where you're going? Simple. If you try to keep your distance to the truck in front of you, another truck driver will overtake you and put himself in between. To keep your distance to him, you'll have to slow down a bit and fall back and that's when the next one decides to jump the queue and so on and so forth. Before you know it, you'll be doing an average of 70 kph instead of 80 kph the entire way to your destination and you'll be late. Get chewed out for that enough times and you'll stop trying to keep your distance, because you know it's futile and you'll just end up getting yelled at for being late. usually it is the roller skates that are the culprits in that. fortunately, in Oregon, there is now a law against jamming in front of trucks without allowing stopping distance. |
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Post by OziRiS on Jun 14, 2016 20:47:18 GMT
And you've got it right. Ask any truck driving instructor over here and they'll tell you that tailgating that close is complete madness. I've had dealings with 9 different instructors from three different driving schools and they all try to teach new drivers to keep a resonable distance, yet all of them end up doing "what everyone else is doing", because if they didn't, they'd never get anywhere on time. Wait, what? How can what everyone else is doing affect when you get to where you're going? Simple. If you try to keep your distance to the truck in front of you, another truck driver will overtake you and put himself in between. To keep your distance to him, you'll have to slow down a bit and fall back and that's when the next one decides to jump the queue and so on and so forth. Before you know it, you'll be doing an average of 70 kph instead of 80 kph the entire way to your destination and you'll be late. Get chewed out for that enough times and you'll stop trying to keep your distance, because you know it's futile and you'll just end up getting yelled at for being late. usually it is the roller skates that are the culprits in that. fortunately, in Oregon, there is now a law against jamming in front of trucks without allowing stopping distance. We have that law too. However, as is being discussed elsewhere on the matter of gun control, you can make all the laws you want, but what are any of them worth if no one is enforcing them? Most Danish police officers aren't properly trained in the laws governing heavy transportation and there's this weird notion that if you don't know all the rules about weight distribution, driving time limits, cargo documentation, dangerous goods and so on, you have no business stopping trucks, so around 90% of them just don't. Not unless they're an immediate threat to road safety. Apparently, in the eyes of Danish police, driving 10 feet from the vehicle in front of you is considered an immediate threat to road safety if an ordinary car does it, but not if a truck does it. Because it's not like there's a considerably larger amount of force involved if a 40 ton truck crashes than there is if it's a two ton car... |
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Post by the light works on Jun 14, 2016 21:15:15 GMT
usually it is the roller skates that are the culprits in that. fortunately, in Oregon, there is now a law against jamming in front of trucks without allowing stopping distance. We have that law too. However, as is being discussed elsewhere on the matter of gun control, you can make all the laws you want, but what are any of them worth if no one is enforcing them? Most Danish police officers aren't properly trained in the laws governing heavy transportation and there's this weird notion that if you don't know all the rules about weight distribution, driving time limits, cargo documentation, dangerous goods and so on, you have no business stopping trucks, so around 90% of them just don't. Not unless they're an immediate threat to road safety. Apparently, in the eyes of Danish police, driving 10 feet from the vehicle in front of you is considered an immediate threat to road safety if an ordinary car does it, but not if a truck does it. Because it's not like there's a considerably larger amount of force involved if a 40 ton truck crashes than there is if it's a two ton car... I'm not sure if it is a commonly ticketed offense, or if it primarily comes out if someone causes a crash. |
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Post by silverdragon on Jun 16, 2016 4:46:38 GMT
The truck in front can not stop as fast as a car, therefore, there is more time and space to stop when the truck in front has to brake.
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Post by silverdragon on Jun 16, 2016 4:47:32 GMT
Thats not an excuse, and I know it, however, its a good reason why cars should not try to brake check a truck.
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Post by the light works on Jun 16, 2016 13:43:52 GMT
I forget exactly where but I recall I recently heard a news item that a high ranking police officer received a parking complaint from a citizen. so he wrote himself a parking ticket and paid it without challenge.
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