Comments By Kiwi303

You don't even HAVE most of the top brands worldwide available in your marketplace...

Scania, Isuzu Giga, Mercades-Benz. Even Tatra can be the best for some environments, Some russian trucking companies regularly do runs through rutted siberian routes that would give an US Army HEMITT nightmares.

It's horses for courses...

Same difference as long drawbar vs short drawbar on a trailer you tow behind your car.

This is EXACTLY what I am planning to do as well, with the exception of home time. The plan is to spend home time wherever I happen to be at the time I take it, and absorb some of the local color. I don't want, nor do I need a "permanent" home location.

Me too. I figure I can rent a room & car every once in a while and see the "Good old USA!"

Jopa

Ditto here... However it will be a way off yet, I didn't get drawn for the 2015 Visa allotment... got to wait til Oct and try for the 2016 draw.

Ou get arrested for parking tickets?

Here if they aren't paid and it goes to court collections, if you don't pay them they just send a bailiff to clamp your car so you can't use it, then if you still don't pay, they send the bailiff to carry off our TV or playstation to sell to cover the fine.

No arrests... No warrants....

The closest you get to being locked up is having your passport frozen so you can't skip out on your debts!

I remember seeing a load pulled up the hill by a bulldozer once...

That was our old house being shifted from my grandma's land where my parents built it to the bare land block my mother bought with dads life insurance.

Hauled it up the hill and perched it on top of the ridge, and all the way up the hill the house sat flat and level since the trailer had extendable axles.

Impressive to see!

How good do you have to be before you get one with only Delivery miles from the factory to the depot? :D

Are you buffing up your halo and certificate of Canonization ready for the truck after this?

Hey Kiwi, is that use of "Y'all" affected for this American audience or does it really mean you are form the South Island? I made a joke about that a while back but I never saw the response if you made one.

You're right on the mark there, It's an affected Americanism :D

One of the big problems for learners of English, is that with so many disparate elements combining to form the language there is no single unified rule of grammar as found in Latin for example. Mouse and House becoming Mice and Houses for example, and Sheep becoming Sheep. Old Norse (the Danes) Norman French and Olde German (the Saxons) all treated things differently, and all added their trace to the blend that we call modern English.

Not perfect americanese, I put too many "U"s in, S and Z are switched around a bit and the word choice/grammar is slightly off.

But yeah, English is a language which positively delights in luring unsuspecting other languages into alleys and mugging them for whatever words look interesting.

It does mean one can shade meanings in English far more by using words with the same base meaning but drawn from several different languages providing fine shades of nuance.

NONE of Y'all speak English... you all speak Americanese!

It is Websters fault, he filled his dictionary with spelling mistakes :D

Do y'all have Demon Energy there?