Pictures of the High and Mighty - Page 3 - GreenHybrid

bar10dah · #21 (**permalink**) 11-20-2005, 12:20 PM

Everyone will ALWAYS try to justify their actions. No matter if they're wrong or right. Which is arbitrary, and relative.

Saying things as, "the benefits outweighted the risks." And, "it was only for a few seconds."

It comes down to, "pot, meet kettle..."

AZCivic · #22 (**permalink**) 11-20-2005, 03:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Delta Flyer

My next digital camera will not have a zoom lens. While it's "ready-to-go", I must wait three seconds for the lens to zoom - depriving me of many a "Kodiak moment".

Whoa, a Kodiak moment? Do you travel to Alaska a lot to have these moments?

Delta Flyer · #23 (**permalink**) 11-20-2005, 04:29 PM

Delta Flyer · #24 (**permalink**) 11-21-2005, 09:37 AM

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Originally Posted by xcel

....Although they move our goods from one end of the country and continent to the other, I see OTR’s (Over the Road - drivers) routinely hitting 70 + miles per hour in 55 and 65 miles per hour zones here in the Chicago area....I believe most OTR’s drive very heads up but it’s the high speeds in a vehicle w/ a Cd of ~ .6 (they do not have to travel that fast) with the obvious hideous FE because of it that bothers me the most

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I was on a ski trip a year ago with a big-rig truck driver. I could have easily raised the temperature while he was boasting about times he drove his 18-wheeler at 100mph - weight 80,000 pounds (36,364kg)

My guess is he was not paying for the diesel bill - that or it was a FedEx kind of shipment.

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Red Herring

This thread and webpage is about the marketing of 6,000+ pound commute vehicles to inattentive, narcassistic drivers, per Keith Bradshier's The High and Mighty. Distracted/aggressive driving is right up there too. A couple of members raise the red herring of my safety of shooting pictures. It would be more respectable if they simply said they did not like the message.

ralph_dog · #25 (**permalink**) 11-21-2005, 10:54 AM

Also, a truck going that fast and weighing that much is nothing more than a "death" machine that is threatening the lives of all who drive the freeways. The difference between 55mph and 100mph is off the scale when it comes to trying to stop, (Newton's law of inertia), lest we forget. I would've pushed him off the ski lift

or at least tripped him up while getting off..

Delta Flyer · #26 (**permalink**) 11-21-2005, 11:08 AM

I was on a sleeper bus, assigned to his condo, so that factored in biting my tongue....

He was one of those redneck types that are hard to reason with, although he must have known that speeding over 95 can get him in jail overnight, not to mention his flirtation with manslaughter....

AZCivic · #27 (**permalink**) 11-21-2005, 08:05 PM

Your average redneck could care less about a night in jail. What he should have cared about is that you can lose your CDL for life doing those kinds of speed. That's not just losing your job - that's losing your ability to ever have a job driving any commercial vehicle for any company, period. That's what keeps the overwhelming majority of truck drivers honest. They want to get paid as much as they can, but know if they do something real dumb and get their CDL suspended, they're out of work, period.