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Oooh, lovely! :D [Can you tell I'm hungry? lol Tried to do Golden Corral for dinner, to pig out on stuff I like, but it wasn't there anymore. Checked the buffet at Petro, it looked awful - course, I don't much like turkey, but it all looked pretty sad. Had meatloaf instead.] I like English...

Pasties are something I'd like to try - if I understand, they're much like pierogi & empanadas, right? [A pocket of dough, with meat or veg or fruit filling.] Yorkshire pudding sounds good, too - but you can keep the haggis - yukkk!:D

As each state's individual requirements are not in the FMCSA book, might be some more drivers racking up high CSA scores, just from rules we don't know about, eh? :mad:

Video: much as I like Streets & Trips, do yourself [and your laptop, not to mention everyone sharing the road with you] a favor, and get a GPS to use while driving, please. The time it takes to look over, change your focus to the screen, process the info, look back to the windshield & process...

Ah, but it does: put a space between the e and the r in therapist.....:eek::D

I like the way you think: use UAW members for wheel chocks [without spilling their beer!] so you can use the chocks for really important things. :D Happy Thanksgiving to you too!

If you have been driving as a company driver, or even an O/O in anything other than expediting, you ARE inexperienced - it's a whole different ballgame, with different rules altogether. Trucking experience helps in some ways, but the feeling that you already know how it works can make it a very...

Too much fun? Aint no such thing! Well, maybe - if there's no one you can call for bail...;)

I haven't been so turned off by something edible since Broompilot couldn't settle on the correct spelling of doughnuts or donuts, and spelled it dognuts. :eek: I haven't eaten one since.

That would be a home run for me, and since I didn't get one, I'm hangin out in SC. At least it's warm! :)

Correction: the violations I meant are minor ones - they may issue citations for major violations, I don't know, as I've never got any.

YY, you don't get 'citations' for violations on a DOT inspection, they just note the violations found. And I wouldn't ask the LEO anything, because they often don't know the answer, [or 'know' the wrong answer], and anyhow, it's perfectly legal for LEOs to lie to you. Dakota: CSA hasn't...

As Tony [and any driver who's ever asked a passerby for directions] can tell you, we get directions like that here, too: "You know where the tree was struck by lightning last year?" When you say that you don't, they say "That's ok, you're not gonna turn there anyway - keep going till you get to...

In "Notes from a small Island" Bill Bryson hikes from Bournemouth to John O'Groats, and this is how the book begins: There are certain idiosyncratic notions that you quietly come to accept when you live for a long time in Britain. One is that British summers used to be longer and sunnier...

Hey, I'm an Anglophile, lol. All my very favorite writers are British, from Jane Austin to PG Wodehouse, and if you speak with an accent that's British, Irish, or Scots, I'll be happy to let you talk my ear off, anytime. A very true difference between the [former] Colonies & England is that the...

Both William and Harry look so much like their Mum :D it's kind of bittersweet. Sue: we all grew up with fairy tales and Disney movies, and therefore wanted to be a princess - at least, we wanted the crown & gown part. [And the Prince Charming!;)] I think Princess Diana seemed kind of...

The reality of expediting [as in LTL trucking, and a few other industries] is that the companies willing to hire brand new inexperienced folks are those whose high turnover requires a steady stream of replacement bodies. They [the companies] insist the turnover is due to lazy or dishonest...

Goes double for me - we can disagree without making [or taking] it personal, I hope. :)