There is an incentive for the private sector: No goods, no customers, and worse, when a customer leaves, especially where there’s basically no differentiator between you and your competitor, they’re probably not coming back. The problem is that the c-suite is desperate to find a way where they don’t have to pay…

This sounds like the plot of the next F&F movie.

Nah, break it down where it is. Hold an old fashioned block party, big old barbecue as everyone works together to take it apart. Plasma cutter rentals can’t keep up. Some dude that owns one hires out his services in return for a few pounds of scrap and some of those brats Mr. Davis is grilling up.

Hire Truckers? There isn’t a driver shortage because they can’t get around to hiring them, there’s a driver shortage because it pays shit money, it’s a really tough/dirty job, and no one wants to do it.

“We’re not corrupt, we're just completely incompetent and shouldn't be anywhere near positions of authority.  Also, I was lying about the not being corrupt part."

The old “We’re not evil, just totally incompetent” defense. Exactly what you want to hear coming from the people who are legally authorized to arrest and kill citizens. 

LOL wow is this ever some prime, grade A bullshit. No message means no “attempt” was actually made.

It wasn’t caused by bad policy or bad procedure, but by a lack of knowledge? The fuck does that even mean (nothing, I know). The policies and procedures were correct, we just didn’t know what the policies or procedures were and we didn’t follow them? Is that somehow better?

The big difference is that, with Tesla, the price you agree to is the price you wind up paying. There’s no, “oops, we’re going to charge you more now.”

Or like Tesla and direct sales of cars where everyone pays sticker and not like traditional sales where 90% of cars are sold at a discount?

See, and that’s the kind of legal distinction people are complaining about. The dealer ordered the vehicle on behalf of the customer. One could reasonably believe the process goes “Order vehicle, vehicle arrives, customer inspects and pays for vehicle”. But, that process misses the step where after the vehicle…

I say this as someone who likes driving fast, who owns fast cars, and who is generally skeptical of adding more bureaucracy to our lives:

Same. Even as I was reading the article I was thinking, man, there should be some way to notify someone.

Car haulers have a really low breakover

Points for filming in landscape but some taken away for not crossing the tracks so the sun was behind him and also for not filming at 120fps.

While me as a standard passenger car driver doesn’t really know this, I’d expect this to be on every truck drivers radar due to the nature of their job.

“...Should you ever find yourself in a vehicle beached on the tracks and you have enough time to get to safety, look for a blue sign containing an Emergency Notification System phone number affixed to one of the posts. Snap a picture of it if you can, as that number will connect you with a train dispatcher — then get…

“Ya see...they put that on at the factory. There’s nothing I can do about it.”

But, without car salespeople, Fargo would not have existed.

RE finance people: If by “work for a living”, you mean try to sell me a bunch of crap I don’t need or want. The actual loan approval process is just a matter of uploading the borrower’s info to the lender and then having them sign the standard forms the system spits out. Not much work at all if you aren’t trying to…