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When compressed air-powered vehicles were being developed in Europe, I thought, "Fantastic!" But then I read that to make a car run on compressed air, it has to be kept small and light, and small and light won't meet American safety standards for crashes. Can't one just use a bigger compressor...

I'm pretty sure it's our air. If it's not, then please keep your air away from my air.

Yes, hand washing, but I'm not proposing a law here, just saying it can be the public's business when someone conducts themselves in a manner that spreads their germs around. Exhaling shouldn't be illegal, no, unless, of course, they're exhaling a toxic smoke that displaces oxygen in my...

We have sanitation laws in general. If you don't contract with someone to take your trash from your home or otherwise take it to the dump, you're going to get a visit from the local constabulary because your actions are threatening others' health. There are laws in some places against exposing...

And it only becomes anybody else's business if you touch anything else in the room. Like smoking, it's only my business if the smoker chooses to exhale. Anybody follow baseball? Moises Alou followed the example of his father when he began intentionally peeing on his hands before a game...

Well, it's SUPPOSED to be personal, and that's based on the assumption that people are adults and don't expose others to their filth. Once they do, it properly becomes public. It's the old right-to-swing-your-fist argument. One's right to be a pig stops when he's in public and exposing others...

I don't think that's an issue, really. As Jerry Seinfeld pointed out, soap is pretty much self-cleaning, you know, being soap. Even if it's not anti-microbial or anti-bacterial, the soap prevents microbes that aren't you from adhering to you. I doubt anyone using the soap after him was in any...

Yeah, guys, perhaps I should HAVE pointed it out in the OP. This is a CV we're talking about, and all the others I've run into doing this are CVs, so no IFTA, logs or any of that.

Actually, Bush was an F. Obama's an L or a Q or somewhere down there.

That's the thing I was thinking, but if each carrier gets most of their loads this way but has a few of their own customers, at least you get the benefit of each of those exclusive customers.

No, these weren't booking outside of their system. They were signed on to multiple carriers, no QC, just used the phone to connect with each dispatch office. Each carrier knew they were signed on elsewhere. When they land in a city, they call each office and tell them. If they accept a load...

It seems that a month or two ago, I was constantly running into drivers for smaller outfits that were signed on to 3 or 4 carriers. Now that I want to ask them about this, I only run into the drivers from major companies that disallow this. I'd like to know some of the companies that allow...

Well, we know that our wonderful president wouldn't wear a flag lapel pin so as to not be seen as "taking sides." If lefties are to be consistent, they'd have to vote for a ban, wouldn't they?

I don't like to park right out front of the building, but every once in a while I'll do it for an hour or so in late afternoon, if that's the first part of the lot to see any shade. It's a shame more truckstops can't be like that Flying J near Wytheville, with trees around that provide some...

I've never understood that. What's so tough about putting it in a garbage can? Guess we'll never know by asking on a forum; my guess is people who dump pee bottles around don't spend a lot of time reading.

The unprinted second half to the headline: "...War on Bill of Rights to continue."

Doesn't TA have a similar program?

At many places, if you're not close to the building, the wifi won't work.

Went into the men's room at the Flying J in Amarillo to wash my hands and such before eating, and straight out of a scene from Seinfeld, this jerk comes out of a stall, and I hear the toilet flush. He passes me at the sink and walks out. I thought, "He'd better not be going to the buffet."...

Dang, Muttly, I wish I had thought of your handle first...