I wonder if Lahood would have the faintest clue to an over the road drivers lifestyle. He probably thinks trucks only pull from one terminal to another on a regular schedule .
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Quote from Ray Lahood
"LaHood said the final rule would give some carriers “new operational flexibility,” and any “disruption to the regulatory process would sacrifice those benefits.”
I wonder how taking an hour off driving time is going to increase any ones operational flexibility. Not...
Apparently there are plenty of cell phones on the sidelines anyway, so if some one wants to reassure a relative that their brains have not been scrambled they can ask the trainer to call the relative and then put it on speaker phone :D
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NFL fines player for reassuring his wife that his brains had not been scrambled after hit . NFL Star Fined For Calling Wife Mid-Game to Say He Was Okay | NBC Philadelphia
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interesting news still not a diesel van or small pickup but maybe a step in the right direction. Getting Ready: GM Ohio Plant Retools for Chevy Cruze Diesel - WOT on Motor Trend
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Yes sir Volkswagen has made a lot of diesel powered cars the last few years . Just wonder why them and not a US. manufacturer ?
Also Honda was supposedly designing a diesel engine for the Us. market and then dropped the idea .
Beginning to think Greg was right about politics playing a...
Here is a link to an article about the Cummins/Nissan diesel project Update 2: Cummins, Feds Developing Four-Cylinder Diesel for Nissan Titan - PickupTrucks.com News
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Another link...
Yeah Ford and GM or Cummins not producing a diesel engine for cars or small pickups puzzles me as well . Though I guess the lack of success Isuzu and I believe Toyota had with their small trucks powered by diesel engines had some impact on their decisions.
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I wonder if your cut & pastes are staying in smartphone format instead of changing to standard format ? Question is probably laughable, as I have very little knowledge of computers
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Stumbled up on this link about ignorance of the law . Pajamas Media » A Constitutional Amendment to Enforce the Protections of Mens Rea
In the ABC7 piece Louis Frobe claimed he was not aware of this Illinois eavesdropping ordinance and asked the state trooper to please take the phone and...
One reason I asked is Ford tries to quiet complaints about diesel engines with new 6.7-liter Power Stroke V8 - Autoweek
I have not heard any thing about the new Ford 6.7 diesel as far as reliability goes . Nor the latest version of the Duramax or Cummins diesel engines.
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Any one have any facts, opinions, wild guesses, on the reliability or potential fuel mileage , of the newest generation of light truck diesel engines available in the US. Market ?
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