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  1. Turtle

    Our Life on the Road Dangers To Be Aware Of When Out On The Road

    2 AM Montana back roads, deer. You betcha. Unless you've experienced, it you can't imagine it. It's not much different from driving through the streets of the French Quarter during Mardi Gras. OK, it's not quite that crowded, but it's close. (Although driving through Roundup, MT at 2 AM is...
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    Mark forums read button

    It depends on which "Mark Forums Read" link you use. When you click "New Posts" what you see is actually the results of a search. The link in the nav bar always marks all threads. The link on the New Posts page on the right only does the threads fetched for that search. So if you hit the back...
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    Orlando Terrorist Attack: 50 Dead, 53 Injured

    I also want to point out that despite the media falling all over themselves to point out, ad nauseum, how the Orlando shooting, at a gay bar during Gay Pride Month, is the "worst mass shooting in US history," it's not. Not even close. The best and most honest you can be about it is to qualify it...
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    Big Truck EPA, NHTSA to hear from truckers at GATS, thanks to OOIDA

    Before you make arrangement to attend, just keep in mind that this thread is talking about dates that occurred in August of 2015. There will be another GATS this year, from the 25th-27th of August.
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    Orlando Terrorist Attack: 50 Dead, 53 Injured

    It should also be noted... In a separate incident, an Indiana man armed with three assault rifles and chemicals used to make explosives was arrested Sunday in Southern California and told police he was headed to a Los Angeles-area gay pride parade. What his exact intentions were are as yet...
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    Orlando Terrorist Attack: 50 Dead, 53 Injured

    Possibly. It depends on how sincere his "pledge" was. If you notice, he made a "pledge" to ISIS. Nobody does that. All other terrorists who have made similar pledges have made pledges to an individual, a specific leader or other individual within ISIS or some other terrorist group, not to the...
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    June idle chit chat and banter and freight hauling

    I do, too. Living next to Ky Lake, and oftentimes having a boat of one kind or another, ya kinda have to have a fishing license, if ya wanna fish. When we lived out in the county we had a large fishing pond stocked with fish and I didn't have to have a license to fish there, but I still bought...
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    June idle chit chat and banter and freight hauling

    I am morally opposed to having to have a license to obtain food.
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    Orlando Terrorist Attack: 50 Dead, 53 Injured

    Oh, it's way too late for that. It became political within minutes of the attack when Trump tweeted an 'I told you so,' Hillary labeled it both an attack of hate (gays) and of terror (but not Radical Islamic Terrorism) and added the non-committal 'redoubling our efforts to protect Americans at...
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    Look where we are today

    ... with a broken leg.
  11. Turtle

    The Trump Card...

    Yep. The problem is just how much and how well astroturfing influences voters, opinions and the media.
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    The Trump Card...

    Also, some of these you may know, some maybe not, but here's some interesting astroturfing going on. Six Degrees of Separation Among Trump Critics | Sharyl Attkisson
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    The Trump Card...

    Trump calls Elizabeth Warren "Pocahontas" and that's somehow racist. pocanontas.com was purchased by the campaign and now redirects it to Warren’s campaign site, because that's not racist at all.
  14. Turtle

    World's largest railroad yard

    Delivering and picking up there is an adventure. As it is with any diesel yard and hump yard. Gotta have your head on a swivel. I've picked up there a couple of times and delivered there 4 or 5 times. BNSF's Argentine Yard in Kansas City is the second largest, and is BNSF's biggest yard. The...
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    Truckers Continue Protesting for Better Pay

    The question is, were you offended?
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    ***Looking for Expedite Brokers/Dispatches**

    It's turtles all the way down. :)
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    ***Looking for Expedite Brokers/Dispatches**

    Unfortunately, it's "common sense" (and conventional wisdom) that tells them more brokers equals more freight. The reality of that is very different. Don't get me started on common sense. It's an oxymoron, neither common nor sense. It is common sense, after all, that tells us the Earth is flat.
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    June and load one

    Interesting factoid: I have more complete and detailed (not to mention... accurate) contemporaneous notes in an EO May Flowers locations banter and banal chit-chat thread from May 31and June 1 than does Dispatch... at the office. My notes, of course, match the recorded phone conversations...
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    June idle chit chat and banter and freight hauling

    Meanwhile, it's now 11 AM because that's how long it takes to drive 35 blocks in Manhattan during rush hour and you still haven't figured out how to get to that damned alley. Or maybe you'll get a load delivering at 0900 to the United Nations and you want to get there early to beat the traffic...
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