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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: franksolich on August 17, 2015, 08:34:02 PM

Title: an example of tobin's--or rsmith's--truck driving skills?
Post by: franksolich on August 17, 2015, 08:34:02 PM

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017286880

Oh my.

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yuiyoshida (9,717 posts)   Mon Aug 17, 2015, 03:01 PM

Truck Crashes into a Highway Sign
 
after which a youtube link
 
Truck Crash into a highway sign in Saudi Arabia - August 16th 2015.

Actually, there's another reason I posted this, in hopes that Ms. Vanderbilt-Astor, the NJCher primitive, lurks, and sees this, from an ancient newspaper clipping that I saved from when franksolich was a young one, and living in New Jersey.  I remember saving it simply because of the last paragraph in the story.

(http://i1100.photobucket.com/albums/g419/Eferrari/august%202015/1_zpscndxz1on.jpg) (http://s1100.photobucket.com/user/Eferrari/media/august%202015/1_zpscndxz1on.jpg.html)

(http://i1100.photobucket.com/albums/g419/Eferrari/august%202015/2_zps9zv1n7qb.jpg) (http://s1100.photobucket.com/user/Eferrari/media/august%202015/2_zps9zv1n7qb.jpg.html)

I'm curious, given how Ms. Vanderbilt-Astor is so contemptuous of the current governor of New Jersey; have any of the subsequent Democrat governors of New Jersey ever gotten anything done about this, since franksolich last lived there?

Title: Re: an example of tobin's--or rsmith's--truck driving skills?
Post by: tanstaafl on August 18, 2015, 12:16:16 AM

During the time of the article you posted, I had two brothers going to school in Louisville, KY. A Hwy 30 in the area, officially known as the Dixie Highway, was locally called the "Dixie Die-way", and apparently for good reasons.

Title: Re: an example of tobin's--or rsmith's--truck driving skills?
Post by: landofconfusion80 on August 18, 2015, 05:54:50 AM

Quote from: tanstaafl on August 18, 2015, 12:16:16 AM

During the time of the article you posted, I had two brothers going to school in Louisville, KY. A Hwy 30 in the area, officially known as the Dixie Highway, was locally called the "Dixie Die-way", and apparently for good reasons.

AA highway through the northern part of the state is one of the most dangerous in the country too.

Title: Re: an example of tobin's--or rsmith's--truck driving skills?
Post by: GOBUCKS on August 19, 2015, 01:30:35 PM

Quote from: tanstaafl on August 18, 2015, 12:16:16 AM

During the time of the article you posted, I had two brothers going to school in Louisville, KY. A Hwy 30 in the area, officially known as the Dixie Highway, was locally called the "Dixie Die-way", and apparently for good reasons.

I remembered roads in different parts of Indiana and Ohio that were locally called the "Dixie Highway", so I nadined it.

It's a web of roads.

The Dixie Highway looks sort of like a WWI-era attempt at an interstate highway system.

Title: Re: an example of tobin's--or rsmith's--truck driving skills?
Post by: landofconfusion80 on August 19, 2015, 01:32:32 PM

Quote from: GOBUCKS on August 19, 2015, 01:30:35 PM

I remembered roads in different parts of Indiana and Ohio that were locally called the "Dixie Highway", so I nadined it.

It's a web of roads.

The Dixie Highway looks sort of like a WWI-era attempt at an interstate highway system.

It was the main road from MI to FL before the interstate showed up.  A little red talking car taught me that.