Didn't know that. Wow, that's depressing. Thank god cars can take quite a hit these days and it's a good thing I've got good insurance.

Definitely deal breaker. I went from "I could do that, my payments wouldn't be too bad." To "nope! Never mind. Fuck that. Not paying that much to compromise and not have a stick."

I detect sarcasm. I never said nothing should change. Saying that 4% of the vehicles are responsible for 20% of the emissions is incredibly misleading. If the average truck weighed 5 times the average car then the amount of pollution would be proportional to the percentage of the population with respect to their size.

Most turboshaft engines already have a gear reduction. Prop speed on a turbo prop is in the neighborhood of what a diesel engine operates at anyway. Around 2000 rpm.

They use ultrasonic leak detection. I'm not really that familiar with it but most of the websites I saw said that it works really well.

If I had seen this video before my lunch break, I would have taken several pictures of the horrendous parallel parking where I went to eat.

Aero actually makes the biggest difference. Current commercial truck tires are already pretty good for low rolling resistance.

What a bunch of ridiculous smoke and mirrors for people who don't understand the truck industry. 4% of the vehicles but 20% of the emissions? Duh, trucks are 20 times heavier than your typical car, of course they are going to account for more emissions, they're fucking huge.

Trucks have a weight and length limit, you can do things like that with a locomotive because they are already huge. By comparison, the weight limit on commercial trucks is super low.

Or Navistar in Obama's home state?

Because it would require an overhaul of the Powertrain that the truck manufacturers aren't equipped to handle right now. Especially with all of the money that has been and will continue to be dumped into meeting EPA emissions regulations.

What's really sad, is that this is one of the few actual skills portions of our driving instruction and testing here in the US.

My aunt could not (presumably still can't) drive in reverse to save her life. So after watching her fail miserably to try and back a trailer into the back yard, I told her (me at the age of 16 and having a license for about 2 months) that I would drive the suburban and trailer to the yard waste recycling center. That…

I like your choice of vehicles.

Don't forget about sacrificing fuel economy for emissions as well.

I love me a good pun.

This is kind of my take on regulation and government oversight. I actually think back to Dirty Jobs and Mike Rowe's "Safety Third" speech. A lot of the really dangerous jobs are pretty well paid and they are heavily regulated. If the company enforces it, OSHA requirements are pretty effective and companies can get in…

Practice heal and toe on this: http://chicago.craigslist.org/chc/cto/432614…

I was starting to get carpal tunnel syndrome, so I switched to left hand mousing at work. The really fucked up part: I used right handed buttons. I work for a different company now and I don't spend as much time at my desk anymore.