Blazing Saddles is right up your alley. Is the fart sequence your fav? I’ve looked into leaving. If trump is reelected, I’ve got a number of options. I’m only 2 hours from Toronto. They’ve got better health care. Affordable pharmaceuticals.
Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Tuesday, August 8, 2023, 12:43 PM, David Spiegel <00000468385049d1-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: Hi Bill, Here is a quote from Blazing Saddles: "Lozim Geiyen". If you're so enthralled with Europe why not just leave already and stop torturing yourself in this deplorable continent? Regards, David On 2023-08-08 10:38, Bill Johnson wrote: > You’re right, Europe is different. They actually care about people over > profits. Much better infrastructure, better health care, and better quality > of lives. > > > Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone > > > On Tuesday, August 8, 2023, 10:34 AM, Jay Maynard <jaymayn...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > In case you haven't noticed, the US is much, much different from Europe, in > many ways big and little that bear on this discussion. > > But, in typical Bill Johnson fashion, he's convinced he's right and will > defend his opinions, well-informed or not, to the death. > > On Tue, Aug 8, 2023 at 9:29 AM Bill Johnson < > 00000047540adefe-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > >> Lol, you should have followed your own advice. My dad drove truck his >> whole life. Never once did wind cause an issue. Yeah, it happens, but not >> frequently. And American roads are way more dangerous than European roads. >> The data (facts) are clear. So profit over lives is a Republican choice. >> >> >> Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone >> >> >> On Tuesday, August 8, 2023, 10:20 AM, Steve Thompson <ste...@wkyr.net> >> wrote: >> >> I've driven in Germany, Austria and Switzerland and some island >> countries. And I held, for over 15 years a CDL-A with Multi and >> Tanker endorsements. >> >> I did not drive LKW (semis) anywhere but within the USofA. And a >> box truck once into Canada. >> >> Stick to what you know, not what what the Huffy post or others say. >> >> Governors are used by different companies. Some limit their >> trucks to 64MPH. Owner operators can get their trucks with no >> governors at all. >> >> I have a son-in-law that is finishing his training to be a Diesel >> mechanic able to work on all the current Tractors in the USofA. >> The electronics are unbelievable, and can cause that truck to be >> down for weeks waiting on some solid state relay board (or >> whatever). The world of trucking has changed significantly since >> I started driving back about 2004. >> >> Because I'm also a pilot, I know a bit about wind and its >> effects. Stick to what you know, what you have experienced. >> >> I've seen fully loaded trucks get blown over (55,000+ gross). >> I've seen trucks lose control in snow and swap ends. Managed to >> not jack knife. >> >> Thankfully I never had any problems, no accidents, no incidents. >> I was lucky and I was a novice and just applied my knowledge of >> physics and energy management that I learned in flying to driving >> a 70,000 gross weight truck. I loaded the trucks so the weight >> was more at the bottom than top (I had specialty loads of barn >> beams). >> >> Stick to what you know. >> >> Take this crap out of here and go argue it elsewhere. >> >> Steve Thompson >> >> >> >> On 8/8/2023 9:07 AM, Bill Johnson wrote: >>> I’ve driven roads in Europe. Every truck is in the right most lane, >> unless they are passing which isn’t common. It’s nothing like the US >> trucking which is designed for large trucks and fast speeds. That’s exactly >> why the carnage on US highways from trucks is way higher. And wind as an >> excuse is just silly. Or speed differential. >>> In Germany and other European Union counties, trucks with a gross >> vehicle weight rating of 3.5 tonnes (7,700 pounds) or more must have a >> governor that limits their speed to 90 kph (54 miles per hour). >>> >>> Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone >>> >>> >>> On Tuesday, August 8, 2023, 3:52 AM, Jeremy Nicoll < >> jn.ls.mfrm...@letterboxes.org> wrote: >>> On Tue, 8 Aug 2023, at 01:56, Bill Johnson wrote: >>>> In Europe all the trucks go the same speed. >>> Rubbish. Age of truck and how heavy its load is are certainly factors. >>> >>> An unloaded truck, is a lot more susceptible to high winds so might >>> be driven slower in those conditions; trucks with no load with curtain- >>> sides often have their curtains open in high winds to significantly >>> reduce wind effects. But that's impossible if there's a partial load >>> or nowhere safe for the driver to open (and tie back) the curtains. >>> >>>> The trucks all have governors. >>> No they don't. Some do. Even so it sets a maximum speed not >>> the actual speed. >>> >>>> They are also all in the right lane. >>> By "right" do you mean "correct"? Or do you mean the slowest >>> lane? In any case trucks are permitted to be in the next fastest >>> lane while overtaking a slower truck. >>> >>> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN >> >> >> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
