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When next year's arctic vortex rolls around with its accompanying blizzard and grid failure, take the lad out in the biggest unobstructed parking lot you can find and cut donuts until you are both comfortable with your car's and truck's handling and you know where your limits are. You guys don't get the practice to stay sharp that we do. Y'all have fun now, hear?
What's the purpose of four wheel drive?I bet he'll put that wood in the bed of the truck next year, too. Didn't bother with it this year.
What's the purpose of four wheel drive?
It's to assure you'll leave the road with enough velocity to clear the ditch and land in the field beyond. Tow truck operators love 4WD. Big ticket tow calls.
No. Just the way we do things here. We started up after the bank pulled the rug out from under my uncle's business. Bought as much equipment at the auction as we could afford and rented a 12000 sq ft space in an industrial park. Early days there was a limited number of 3 phase 220 outlets, so if you went on break or had to make a nature call, you might find your machine disconnected when you got back. We've expanded to fill the entire building but the boss keeps buying new toys without considering where to put them.Suggested by a a college kid efficiency "expert"?
What's the purpose of four wheel drive?
Because it gives you false confidence and you drive faster, so when IT hits the fan the results are more spectacular.Put another way, it enables you to get stuck further off the main road.
Because it gives you false confidence and you drive faster, so when IT hits the fan the results are more spectacular.
Germans are just good drivers as the poor ones don't survive
I'll never forget my father driving 120 mph in Germany and a little old lady in a Mercedes flashing her lights to pass. I don't think I'd ever seen my father deflated more.
You see different kinds of bad drivers in different areas of the country.
In SC it seemed to be the Oblivious Drivers. They did not seem to be paying attention to what they were doing. The most outstanding one of those I saw in 1973 when I was driving up to my work-study job at the university. First, he pulled out in front of me from a stop sign. Then, he stopped at the top of the hill, even though the traffic light was green. Then he got stuck out in the middle of the next intersection when the traffic backed up in front of him. This was all in the space of less than 2 blocks. These are the kind of people that are driving in a lane that either is going away very soon or is in reality a row of parking spots, and you really wonder what they are going to do at the end. Decades later I watched one of those people run a SC Highway Patrolman off the road because he was so busy describing some on the Right side of the road to the occupants of his car.
In OK it was the guys who were yelling "YEEHAH!" out their window, or at least should have been, in order to property adopt the rodeo driving style. There are a lot more cattle in OK than there are people, and you can see why; their bad drivers need a lot of room.
In CA it was what some people called the absolute moral imperative to fill in every empty spot on the road with a car, never mind that it does not meet the navigational requirements of the current mission. So you need to make a Right turn in 500 ft, but there is an empty spot in the far Left lane, so go plug that hole! I presume that is why computer games involving stacking things are so popular with some people. And then there were the CA drivers who were so astonished by rain that they had to drive much faster to because it was so dangerous out that they needed to get home before they could have a wreck. I lived there 10 years but on my last trip to CA in 2001 it seemed to me the freeways had become a continuous stunt driving competition.
In FL we have tourists who apparently believe that if you get lost you do not have to worry about traffic laws. And it seems to be where the YEEHAH guys from OK go to retire.
I bought a Mazda almost 20 years ago. They tried to sell me an alarm system. I told them "No thanks. It's got a manual transmission. No kid is going to know how to drive it".
Heh! I recall a case from several years ago. Some crooks hijacked a Brinks armored truck. They got about half a block down the street with it. It was a stick shift and they did not know how to drive it. I guess making a getaway in 1st gear is rather challenging.
Surprised they got it started, an engine strong enough to pull an armored car has a stout clutch.
I think the engine probably was already running. Or it could have been in neutral, no gear.