Russ

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Meth.......2013 ??..........i'm 2016. I'm having difficulty with your 17hrs etc........will chase up my logbook, all the info will be there, about extended hrs, and the like. Even so...17hrs solo...noway, but i'm checking.

the days of truckies ( HC and MC ) doing huge hrs is long gone. Transport inspectors are all over it, logbooks are the first thing you pass out your window, any....any errors you make in them....you get slammed, big time. Yes.....you can "fiddle".....a bit, however being caught out, and you will be at some point, the consequences will seriously dent your hip pocket. Transport coppers, have in place methods to track your days,hrs, movements. They know to the hr, how long it takes from "A....to B "..( town to town, city to city ) they open your logbook, do some simple maths, check "their" data, if the 2 don't gel...........good luck Already trialling electronic logging in heavy vehicles, it's tamper proof, they pull you up, plugin their computor, download content.........everything, everything shows up. Another method also being trialled.....is "tracking". Both these methods will eventually be mandatory. A growing number of companies are running 2 drivers per truck, allows long distance movements. Insurance Co's now wipe their hands of you, if accidents can be attributed to fatigue caused by excessive hrs, and/or "fudged" log books. Sadly........the "big transport" companies, are strangling owner drivers, forcing many to "contract driving" to the big players, on big players terms. It's that......or no work. Big "receivers" of freight, engage the big transport companies..........more and more. Smaller operators, owner drivers etc, in the main, are loosing the battle, and it's bloody wrong. Same thing when big retailer opens store in country locale......the long established "local store" is lucky to survive. "loyalty" towards the local store, slowly deminishes.....we go for the cheaper supplier.....it's only a matter of time. Read recently....woolies, are keen to setup their own pharmacies in their stores, they'll find a way to do it. ( goodbye local pharmacies ).......what's next.

you can jump off the sydinay harbor bridge for all i care.......fair dinkum... spelling, geez

chap stepped off the footpath, hit by bus, died...........spoze he should've been wearing hiviz, maybe bus should've miraculously just levitated over him. Numbers of folks every yr drown at our beaches......even patrolled ones, yea, let's ban swimming at beaches........unsafe. Accidents happin.....unfortunate, but that's the way it is. Reading some posts here, exposes the rediculous pathway, safety is heading. It's now an industry, employs officers/consultants/ trainers/trainers of trainers/paper shufflers/on and on, it goes. Little wunder more and more firms seek off shore facilities, as our incentives / our rules, are just strangling folks. This "now" safety direction, is just crazy.

spend more, eat more, drink more.....forgot...fly more. In a nut shell...........do anything, but MORE of it. If you love your tucker etc, and weight is gaining...........why pain yourself and eat shyte, jog everyday, ride a bicycle in lycra..........it's all pain. Lifes short, eat drink yourself to death, lovin every minute of it.

Mate works as a driver for a large transport co.......every driver is issued a largish o/nite type bag, they must carry at all times.........contains, hardhat..hiviz vest..first aid kit.. raincoat..safety specs..ear plugs..plus 2..3 other things i can't recall, ..........they drive trucks, they do 3 days induction.....and every week they sign off a "toolbox" sheet about some bullsh!t topic. Kids, at school, are discouraged from "risky" activities, they are wrapped in cotton wool more and more. Kids run / ride / walk, straight out onto pedestrian crossings, knowing they can demand any vehicle at any distance..........TO STOP. Might just be the one vehicle approaching the crossing, but kids now won't wait, let the vehicle pass, before the kids cross the road. The buggers ride their bicycles along the footpath, then cool as pull straight out onto the ped crossings. We have created "school zones" lower speed limits that's ok, but it's also embedding further disregard into the kids for their own self management / awareness etc. Fast forward 10yrs ......the mind just boggles.

More and more the use of "fluro" shirts / vests is being demanded by employers. Just today at woolies servo, attendant spent several minutes looking for a vest to wear, before stepping out to the pumps. When questioned by the waiting driver ( i was at the otherside pump ) attendant explained "vests" are to be worn whenever they enter a trafficeable ( spelt wrong ) area. "Traffic controllers".......stop / go, folks............it's a BOOMING industry. You can be driving out whoop whoop, tractor is slashing the verges, and there's 2 stop go folks there as well. Road could be 5 mile dead straight. Had me whinge.......feeling better now.

sorry folks.........i've just had another "moment" ATTORNEY: Doctor, how many of your autopsies have you performed on dead people? WITNESS: All of them. The live ones put up too much of a fight. _________________________________________ ATTORNEY: ALL your responses MUST be oral, OK? What school did you go to? WITNESS: Oral... _________________________________________ ATTORNEY: Do you recall the time that you examined the body? WITNESS: The autopsy started around 8:30 PM ATTORNEY: And Mr. Denton was dead at the time? WITNESS: If not, he was by the time I finished. ____________________________________________ ATTORNEY: Are you qualified to give a urine sample? WITNESS: Are you qualified to ask that question? ______________________________________ And last: ATTORNEY: Doctor, before you performed the autopsy, did you check for a pulse? WITNESS: No. ATTORNEY: Did you check for blood pressure? WITNESS: No. ATTORNEY: Did you check for breathing? WITNESS: No.. ATTORNEY: So, then it is possible that the patient was alive when you began the autopsy? WITNESS: No. ATTORNEY: How can you be so sure, Doctor? WITNESS: Because his brain was sitting on my desk in a jar. ATTORNEY: I see, but could the patient have still been alive, nevertheless? WITNESS: Yes, it is possible that he could have been alive and practicing law.

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No party, no pollie runs this country....... the media does, they have the power to make......and break, pollies fear them. News........is now 24hr TV......or even 1/2 hr "news breaks".........."news" is saturating our lives.

O no.........now, he was a goose. add mark latham to that as well. christ, the "goose" title could easily become looong. truss dutton abetz etc etc

amen..........

It's greed..............affects some, more than others. The "greedy" ones roost in the same trees, hence mates get their chances too. "Battlers".....average joe blow, just a speed bump to the high end club. "rules/fairness"........2 sets....... the "have not" rules, and the "have got" rules, the "have got" folks, set the rules for the "have not" folks, that's democracy folks, and it's not going to change. Ol mate kerry P......openly glead, how he paid $4k tax one yr, yet was a billionaire...........it's them rules folks, bloody magnificent.

love touchin me wifes BUTT..........it's a goodin:oh yeah:

don't you mean........BUTT BUTT ???

A more important issue...........fresh water. Compromise that..............we're done for. Then this "fracking......coal seam burnings" and the like.......scary stuff, our under ground water aquafiers once compromised,are gone.......for good. I'm worried..........

Good ol Bronny Bishop, poor ol dear, deemed her unfetted spendings were all legit, hell of an uproar began...... interestingly .....now.......the bloody lot of them have now realised the "can of worms" is there, only to be exposed..........Oh how quiet they've gone.

when you breed like rabbits, and available food/water is unsustainable........you go looking elsewhere. "refugee" is the term. When you donate huge $$$ to "aide"........it promotes population growth there, and the available food get's even less. The heart wrenching pics of starving children leaves me gobsmacked. FORCED birth control .........reduce the eaters......just for starters. The current system ( die by starvation ) is crazy. Now the fight begins..........

Cocaine ,I'm told , is the " creme " of choice.....but expensive. Heroin is like ice.......your doomed. Weed.....don't know, but it appears govts are relaxing about usage.....world wide. Is it a path to other drugs....debatable. ( jury's still out ) Free up cocaine let's see what follows with it. We just have to eliminate those other 2 evil drugs. Allocate mega $$$ educating our kids at school about drugs...be fair dinkum about it, maybe a class excursion or 2 and witness first hand, folks just hanging onto their pathetic lives as they inject themselves. Shock the kids, scare the hell out of them, let them talk to the addicted, we've got to get serious....real serious.

Legalise the 3...4 main drugs used, it's made under controlled situations, it's pure, and make it free. Bingo.......all the back yarders, the drug lords ( lords....who the hell knighted these pieces of shyte ) they are all finished. They're sure as he'll not going to be able to sell it.. Now., you've got folks getting clean/ pure drugs, you can now .....how ??....begin to educate them off drugs, they're no longer criminals, scared to seek help because of possible ramifications to themselves and their suppliers. Ice.......it appears, is the one way path to self destruction, it takes no prisoners, you are doomed. So let's think outside the box........maybe as above here.

Legalise the lot of them, handed out by ??? And to make it more attractive..... They're free, as much as they like. Can see a booming market in coffin making as a consequence, another winner would be......no drug related crimes, I can leave me house unlocked again, like it was yrs ago. Just one condition tho......you take drugs, don't ask for our medics at the emergency wards to bust their arses bringing you back from near death by an overdose. You're on your own.

Grumpy about spelling.....big deal, geez. I rekin we got some candidates for road rage here as well, ......lighten up lads. Go smell the roses.....or sumthin:oh yeah:

I want to be horizontally buried atop Sophia Loren .....she's been lighting my fire for the last 50+ yrs. ( I think she's around 70ish now.....and still HOT )