Treat each and every vehicle driver out there as if to them motorcycles are either invisible or a target. I’ve watched a car driver see the biker, and then drive right at them.
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I had a friend that worked for the BMW Spartenburg plant for several years. He said most people there were very happy so the union had nothing to “sell” them. They were paid well, managed well, and it was a clean/orderly environment to work in.
I worked in insurance for a number of years as a damage adjuster, and I generally tell people to stay away from someone else’s salvage. Like you said, if it’s a project car, fine, you pays your money and you takes your chances. As a reliable daily driver, though, no. There’s a reason that car was totaled, and it’s not…
I wouldn’t be surprised if the UAW already has a journalism arm.
My guess is the workers there are pretty happy on the whole, and the UAW has been trying to convince them that they are getting screwed. I see the UAW as a sleazy politician who promises the world if you’ll only vote for them, then hikes taxes like crazy while re-branding pre-existing benefits programs as their own…
It’s too bad their choice is between the no union and the UAW. If I were a southern auto worker, I’d be pretty skeptical that the UAW had my best interests in mind while also considering their Detroit-area core.
Not this.
1st gear: “VW workers are thinking of unionizing? This could be interesting. Hopefully it’s not the UA.... oh.” I’m with Menendez, for their sake I hope they vote those crooks out. You want to unionize, be my guest, but don’t go with the UAW.
I wonder if they are willing to change from WGA-E representation to UAW representation.
But that is well shy of the $95,000 and $123,000 the average U.S.-based GM assembly worker and skilled work made respectively, including overtime and profit-sharing bonuses.
(Jalopnik is proudly a union shop; we and our sister sites are represented by the Writers Guild of America East.)
They design it this way because it’s a Jeep and it’s meant to be an
off roader. Just because they are mostly mall crawlers now doesn’t mean customers who buy them are allowed to be ignorant of what they are getting.
Boeing also had two previously built 747s that the original buyer didn’t take delivery of, so there were some savings to be had.
Although the Secret Service and USAF were willing to entertain a twin engine plane this time around, their preference has always been for 3 or 4 engines for redundancy. Boeing did offer a 787 as a possibility to reduce costs, but the availability of the new/unused 747s in storage kind of pushed them back to that.
It’s the largest US made passenger jet. And yes, AF1 needs to be big to hold everything it requires.
You’re absolutely right in no way. List of global 747 operators
Considering they found his bike at the rest stop and his clothes, computer, and phone by the river, it seems like he left the bike to go for a swim in the river or maybe a bath. The fact that he didn’t come back for those things and they weren’t stolen would suggest that he somehow became incapacitated in the river…
Sadly, I get the feeling a .45 would have been a more useful tool.
Funny. You have that exactly backwards!