Must be on I-10 West of San Antonio on the way to El Paso. I haven’t been that way in 20 years.  I-20 is Flat AF from Pecos to Ft Worth.

I also wouldn’t have parents (73, 72 in both good health and spirits btw), but that’s aside the point. The criticism has been of their time in the driver seat not their existence on the whole.

Ask me how i know.

A lot of us may use that for coins, but I’m pretty sure that little cup/pocket/cavity next to the cigarette lighter is actually an ashtray. Just hope when a dime finds its way to the bottom of the 12V socket it doesn’t weld itself inside.

I’d say it’s a seller’s market right now. But the supply is so pinched the sellers are having to fight other sellers for product to put on the lot. The world has gone mad.

No generation has faced less adversity with more privilege and accomplished so little while supporting policy that is to the detriment of the future of the country planet.

With drum brakes it’s twofold. Not only do you have the glazing of the braking surfaces, but the drum begins to expand away from the mechanical limits of the shoes.

Ford switched Powerstroke Diesel equipped pickups back to vacuum boost in 2008.  From 1999 to 2007 they used a Bosch hydraulic boost that borrowed hydraulic pressure from the power steering.  I had a 2000 model with that system.  It wasn’t bad until the pressure accumulator crapped out which made steering the truck…

The guy was working out of Texas and likely trained by a guy that drives mostly in Texas. I don’t think there’s a runaway ramp in this entire state. That being said you’re definitely going for a ride on one of those ramps but you likely won’t die and neither will anyone else.  It looks like that truck and its cargo…

Wait, he fled the scene too? Not surprised he got thrown under the jail. The dashcam footage of him actively avoiding the runaway truck ramp shows an extreme indifference to human life... the type of fucking around that gets you a 2nd degree murder charge.

Nope, they use positive air pressure from an on-board compressor.  There are trucks out there with vacuum boosted hydraulic brakes, but not in a semi.  My uncle had two tandem-axle grain trucks with vacuum boosted hydraulic brakes.  Both trucks had a vacuum pump driven by the engine (Diesels don’t generate manifold…

There’s more to brake failures than what you’re describing.  However, you are correct that air brakes are a great fail-safe type system.   The brakes apply when air pressure is lost.  Even then, if the drums and friction material are overheated (a condition known as fade) it doesn’t matter how much force you put into…

Pre-trip inspections are federally required for all commercial drivers. Pretty shitty way to wind up in prison because you pencil-whipped your pre-trip putting yourself at the tender mercy of your employer’s maintenance practices.

Jury consultants only get involved in civil matters. Jury selection in civil court is a different animal than criminal.  In criminal cases, each side gets 12 strikes and that’s it. You take the jurors in the order they’re numbered in the voir dire.

dunno if he was actually innocent or just “not guilty”

It isn’t that much different in Texas. They call in a few hundred jurors per case. The frustrating part is they call in an order of magnitude more than they need. Jurors are assigned a number once the voir dire begins. Each side gets 12 “strikes” to pick 12 jurors plus 2 alternates. Basically if your juror number is…

I had jury duty just last month. The judge told us the sentence the accused was eligible for if found guilty, not the specific sentence, but the range the law permits. It might vary state to state.

I want to do the powertrain swap on my dad’s ‘79 Bronco. But I’m wanting to drop in a 7.3L Godzilla V8 with a ten speed auto.  Exterior and interior are going to remain as they were in 1979, but with fresh reproduction parts.  The instrument cluster might be the only oddity.  Luckily there are drop-in digital clusters…

I’ve spent all but 5 years of my life living in “Tornado alley” and what you said is deadly wrong. When the sirens blare, that means there is an active tornado on the ground near you.  Plus, if one is on the ground there could be more ready to come down. Your ass needs to get to shelter right now! If you’re in a…

The obvious solution (and one that GM has figured out) is to stop relying on wheel torque to measure driver attention