More truckers using drugs.
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Re: More truckers using drugs.
Do you not have tachographs in the US? I knew this old trucker who would tell you how to adjust the speed limiter on Volvo big-rigs but they check your graphs all the time.bvanfossen wrote: ↑Thu Aug 23, 2018 1:03 pmYou must have been out of the states a long time. This is still a big issue there and the egg was cracked wide open some years ago nationally due to all of the accidents. Maybe around the time meth became popular. ..armchairlawyer wrote: ↑Thu Aug 23, 2018 11:59 am
I don't recall there being too many accidents as a result of all this illegality.
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Re: More truckers using drugs.
Don't know about the US, but in Europe tachographs went out of fashion 2 decades ago. All GPS based now, making it much harder to cheat.cptrelentless wrote: ↑Thu Aug 23, 2018 4:43 pmDo you not have tachographs in the US? I knew this old trucker who would tell you how to adjust the speed limiter on Volvo big-rigs but they check your graphs all the time.bvanfossen wrote: ↑Thu Aug 23, 2018 1:03 pmYou must have been out of the states a long time. This is still a big issue there and the egg was cracked wide open some years ago nationally due to all of the accidents. Maybe around the time meth became popular. ..armchairlawyer wrote: ↑Thu Aug 23, 2018 11:59 am
I don't recall there being too many accidents as a result of all this illegality.
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Re: More truckers using drugs.
driving in Phnom Penh is enough to make anyone start taking drugs.
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Driving in Phnom Penh or riding a moto, the latter is probably the worst.
But this is capital city streets. Everyone but yourself seems to be in a rush. Enough to put you off driving.
But this is capital city streets. Everyone but yourself seems to be in a rush. Enough to put you off driving.
Always "hope" but never "expect".
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When I went back the the UK recently I got my Class 2 license, tho it’s a cat C now.. artics are cat CE.
Anyway I had to sit a 100 question theory (car drivers do 50) and there is a huge emphasis on working time directives. Then there’s the hazard perception test. This wasn’t as easy as it looked as clicking when a developing hazard turns into a deft hazard is done on a timed basis. You had to click not to early and not too late during the development of the hazard. The hours you are restricted to driving, the breaks and weekend breaks are all tightly regulated. The new tacho’s are all digital and you apply for a drivers tacho card after you pass your test. This card stores 30 days of data. And then it must be uploaded to the DVLA and if you are caught or checked they can request the last 90 days of logs. Any punishable offence is something like £1,000 per offence min....
Oh and there’s a shortage of drivers in the UK right now.... can’t for the life of me think why.
Anyway I had to sit a 100 question theory (car drivers do 50) and there is a huge emphasis on working time directives. Then there’s the hazard perception test. This wasn’t as easy as it looked as clicking when a developing hazard turns into a deft hazard is done on a timed basis. You had to click not to early and not too late during the development of the hazard. The hours you are restricted to driving, the breaks and weekend breaks are all tightly regulated. The new tacho’s are all digital and you apply for a drivers tacho card after you pass your test. This card stores 30 days of data. And then it must be uploaded to the DVLA and if you are caught or checked they can request the last 90 days of logs. Any punishable offence is something like £1,000 per offence min....
Oh and there’s a shortage of drivers in the UK right now.... can’t for the life of me think why.
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