Yup, big fan of his work.

Hah! They’d work too. But the LPL is a YouTuber who is an actual lawyer who picks locks, and he’s done a few boots on his channel, showing what it takes to open them without damage.

From what I understand yes there is a contract , but the tow company is essentially maliciously enforcing the contract, on purpose. The lot owner has tried to get the contract voided and IIRC he is working through the court system as we speak.

At what point does this become a business problem for any Memphis-based freight company? If I were a dispatcher right now, I’d be doing everything I can to avoid sending trucks there precisely because I’d have no idea if that load will ever be delivered. I don’t get paid for undelivered loads.

Honestly surprised no employees of these predatory towing companies have been shot yet.  

Such a misnomer.. EVs almost all come with L1 charging capability .. that is it works with the 110v 15amp circuits that nearly every household in the US has. Even in bush alaska we can (and have) charged EVs and it doesn’t get more remote than that as far as infrastructure goes anywhere in the US.

instead of just having lanes, LA freeways are going to have lines painted across the lanes so they can have rows and rows of 11'x24' rectangles. and everyone can get their parking spots while sitting in traffic

That thing is going to need to be taken down, with all the readily visible damage to load bearing areas let alone the potentially compromised deeper non-visible damage I don’t see them wanting 300k cars going across that stretch daily. Even if limited large trucks cars alone would subject it to supporting several tons…

On the Radio today they mentioned the pallet storage facility was on land rented from the DOT/Caltrans.

I’ve driven around the LA Basin a couple times.

I wonder how the rural-vs-urban split affects this.

“Many are questioning why such a tinderbox of flammable material was allowed to be stored under the highly trafficked overpass, which Gov. Newsom said is still being assessed.”

I drive through LA twice on Saturday. The traffic was not great then; I can imagine what it’s like today.

Looks like all the ads left space for just the one picture. I keep coming back to this site just to see how much worse it can get. My expectations are always exceeded.  Well done. 

“Storage lot.”

One of life’s greatest mysteries is how little car salespeople know about the products they sell. It’s because most aren’t really in sales (mentally and skills wise). The real sales industry hustles to convince their clients they need to buy XYZ. Car dealers have had it pretty easy the past 130 years.  

“I felt like I knew more than they did,” Richards said.

the dealers didn’t seem to know much about the EVs they were selling. “I felt like I knew more than they did,” Richards said.

Longest I’ve been there was 4 nights. Flew in, two-day conference plus a golf outing and dinner at the end. I have never been more ready to get out of anywhere.

When David Foxx reached out to Jalopnik, he was on his 10th day of a 19-day vacation