Sometimes I think the biggest thing missing from the American Justice system is a “beat their ass” option.

On the bright side the flatbed driver is no longer constipated...

Better to do it strictly on the radio without giving them visible targets. Get the chatter going on an "off" channel then have somebody alert the doofi about the "ANTIFA" channel. Wouldn't even have to be on the Beltway, just in range...

There should be dozens of folks trolling these idiots with ANTIFA chatter on the CB radio.

It will just have to wait, all the Ukrainian tractors are busy right now...

It's a wonder it doesn't happen more often, race haulers drive like idiots, frequently in packs reminiscent of the worst of the convoys in the early days of radar detectors. The only trucks on the road more notorious for driving stupid fast than the bullwagons taking beef to the slaughterhouse but at least they have…

I’m not an expert, since I only have slightly over 4,000,000 accident-free miles in tractor-trailers across 48 States, but in my experience the risk of being blown over is pretty remote compared to the risk from cornering or taking a curve too fast.

Several States require police escorts for oversize loads.

On my ice cream truck built for running a campground with rough roads I power a 15 cubic foot chest freezer with two AutoZone RV batteries and a 3000W Powerdrive inverter, have a battery isolator I haven’t installed yet that will charge the batteries when the engine is running. Constantly opening the freezer I’m good…

Too simple, isn’t there some machine that’ll take up a square yard of counter space and be used 8 times a year to do this for me?

I think the only one they could drive/haul it to by road is Spain.

Until last week those were the folks assuring everybody the New Bridge was fine.

In over 4 million miles of driving OTR I can count on my testicles the number of Interstate bridges I’ve ever crossed that bounce as much as The Old Bridge in Memphis, with a testicle left over.

The I-55 bridge, known locally as “The Old Bridge”, bounces. As in you can be sitting still on it in a tractor-trailer truck and you will bounce when a truck goes by in the other lane. Nobody in Memphis would be surprised if the lead item on the morning news was that it fell overnight. Nobody.

I hauled concrete for the earthquake-proofing project on this bridge in 2014-15. They had already poured the foundations in the water when I started, but the piers from the water west were each standing on a foundation about 15' square. As quake-proofing we poured 2,000 yards of concrete under and around the base of…

So, the 747 is roughly comparable on a per-mile basis to an M1A1 Abrams, just carries more a lot faster.

Yep, the difference is the ammo. If you rechambered an M2 .50 cal to shoot .38 Special it would become a submachine gun.

As long as hitting anything isn’t high on the menu, but remarkable in having 3 moving parts if you count the dust cover. Great for burning up unused ammo on the pistol range when the M1911A1 was still standard issue.

You know how sometimes things look like very shitty things they aren’t?

I was right at the end of the “take your ass behind the barracks” era and the start of the “say anything to a trainee but don’t hit them” era in drill sergeants in the Army, from a trainee’s perspective it seemed some were adapting better than others.