Comments By Taxman

The caveat.. our safety director called me yesterday and says that DOT officer hit me with 57? CSA points due to the fire. I need someone to explain how the 5th axle burned but #4 was fine, why I didn't have alarms or appreciable loss of airpressure. I also need lessons on understanding CSA points.

I need those lessons too. But first, is that a typo? 57 points? 7 points? Five 7 point violations? A 5 point and a 7 point?

Oh man, all the time. And I had really long hair on top of that. Yeah, pretty much everyone I came across had something to say about something the first five years or so. I thought it was great.

So you never really felt like this about it?

Well, you walk into a restaurant, strung-out from the road... And you feel the eyes upon you as you're shaking off the cold... You pretend it doesn't bother you but you just want to explode...

Most times you can't hear 'em talk, other times you can... All the same old clichés: "Is that a woman or a man?"... And you always seem outnumbered, you don't dare make a stand...

Good luck, Larry. I hope the Blue Volvo has a new clutch in it by Monday.

Now I have another question: Are semi clutches self adjusting, or is manually restoring free play to the pedal part of normal maintenance? From a self-adjusting/automotive perspective, the disk is down to its rivets, and whoever is trying to adjust that out of it would just be fooling themselves and damaging the flywheel.

Maybe you scared her by repeatedly 'slipping the clutch' and feathering the throttle when she wanted you to just go. (you weren't riding the clutch, but it sounds like she didn't know that) And then, on that final turn into the yard, you were slipping the clutch again so she stopped you.

I can think of three things you could have done there, were all three automatic fails?

1. Stop when she told you, right in the crosswalk. Autofail seems to have been the result, but you obeyed a safety order from the licensed driver in charge of the vehicle.

2. Complete the turn she just ordered you not to take (autofail, right? or worse than autofail, if that's possible?)

3. Abort the turn and stop after the crosswalk. Is this a fail too?

Thanks. It all sounds pretty standard. My Resmed AutoPAP has CDMA (Verizon) modem built in.

My niece on my sister's side is a germaphobe. She's had a bottle of hand sanitizer on her key chain at least as long as she's been a mother. She wouldn't be caught dead in a truck stop bathroom.

My great niece on my brother's side is more on the slovenly side. She started carrying sanitizer on her key chain last summer, after she started riding in her dad's semi. I never made the connection before today.

I've seen this, but it still doesn't address the topic of exceeding an individual component's GWR rating.

Brian did address it, see below. But I'm with you, the GAWR is a mechanical/physical limit, not a legislative limit, where does Congress get off thinking it can repeal the laws of physics by legislative fiat? Maybe they should pass a daylight savings time law that really works, all they have to do is require the sun to set later in the day.

The exemption, which was signed into law by President George W. Bush in August 2005 as part of the Energy Policy Act of 2005, increases a vehicle's maximum gross vehicle weight limit and axle weight limit by 400 pounds. This allows for the adding of qualified idle-reduction technology, such as an APU.

Also Hell, Michigan. Not to mention Vulcan, Paradise, Christmas, Temperance, and Jugville. And of course, Intercourse, Pennsylvania.

Awesome!