Thursday, January 04, 2018
Holy shit, the DOT is cracking down on people towing things behind their vehicles across state lines for income, they'll have to get commercial DLs, and electonic logs.
Driving a truck and trailer across a state line with a Class C driver's license will soon change.
Everybody that competes and hauls down the road and shows horses, cattle, whatever, if you're getting paid to go down the road or paid to compete, then it affects you.
The U.S. DOT requires people involved in any sort of interstate commerce to get their commercial driver's license.
That will mandate them to install an Electronic Logging Device in their trucks to monitor how long they have been on the road. The ELD will also require them to take breaks.
People caught on the road without their CDL could face of a fine of several thousand dollars.
Y'all are effing screwed. Truckers got shafted, and no one protested loudly enough, and now the govt has figured out how to get more money from some of us they couldn't screw before
https://www.theindychannel.com/news/national/us-department-of-transportation-cracking-down-on-cdls-for-trucks-hauling-trailers
https://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/hours-service/elds/electronic-logging-devices
For the purposes of Federal Motor Carrier safety regulations (FMCSR);
Commercial Motor Vehicle means any self-propelled or towed vehicle used on public highways in interstate commerce to transport passengers or property
"Commerce" can be more loosely defined as actually "involved in a commercial venture" or the "intent" to make a profit. This does not mean actually making a profit! Running a commercial stable, hauling horses for show (with intent to profit), race, sale, training, or for compensation are some examples of commercial enterprises. Prize money and showing to increase the value of the horse can be interpreted as profit.
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations (FMCSR) in general deal with the marking of the vehicle (identification signs on the vehicle), inspection sticker, medical card, log book, emergencies procedures, and parts and accessories necessary for safe operation. US DOT, FHWA publishes the Federal Motor Carrier Regulations Pocketbook.
http://equispirit.com/info/articles/federal-regulations-for-trailers.htm
Everybody that competes and hauls down the road and shows horses, cattle, whatever, if you're getting paid to go down the road or paid to compete, then it affects you.
The U.S. DOT requires people involved in any sort of interstate commerce to get their commercial driver's license.
That will mandate them to install an Electronic Logging Device in their trucks to monitor how long they have been on the road. The ELD will also require them to take breaks.
People caught on the road without their CDL could face of a fine of several thousand dollars.
Y'all are effing screwed. Truckers got shafted, and no one protested loudly enough, and now the govt has figured out how to get more money from some of us they couldn't screw before
https://www.theindychannel.com/news/national/us-department-of-transportation-cracking-down-on-cdls-for-trucks-hauling-trailers
https://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/hours-service/elds/electronic-logging-devices
For the purposes of Federal Motor Carrier safety regulations (FMCSR);
Commercial Motor Vehicle means any self-propelled or towed vehicle used on public highways in interstate commerce to transport passengers or property
"Commerce" can be more loosely defined as actually "involved in a commercial venture" or the "intent" to make a profit. This does not mean actually making a profit! Running a commercial stable, hauling horses for show (with intent to profit), race, sale, training, or for compensation are some examples of commercial enterprises. Prize money and showing to increase the value of the horse can be interpreted as profit.
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations (FMCSR) in general deal with the marking of the vehicle (identification signs on the vehicle), inspection sticker, medical card, log book, emergencies procedures, and parts and accessories necessary for safe operation. US DOT, FHWA publishes the Federal Motor Carrier Regulations Pocketbook.
http://equispirit.com/info/articles/federal-regulations-for-trailers.htm
A traffic stop on I-70 eastbound in Morgan County Ind. on Thursday afternoon netted 240 pounds of marijuana.
A trooper with the Indiana State Police Drug Enforcement Uniform Squad stopped a 2017 box truck for a traffic violation as he was patrolling I-70 shortly before 1 p.m.
During a search of the truck, 240 pounds of marijuana, 11.5 pounds of THC oil, and two pounds of THC wax were found.
Joshua Monte Wilson, 28, of Temecula, Calif., was arrested for level V dealing and possession of marijuana, over 10 pounds.
https://www.theindychannel.com/news/local-news/morgan-county/240-pounds-of-pot-seized-during-traffic-stop-on-i-70-in-morgan-county
Pot just bacame legal in California, why was this idiot in Indiana?
the Harley Liberator, named after the WW2 bomber, and about 1400 were made so riders would have the most protection possible on cross country rides
the fairing was designed and made by Craig Vetter from 1975-77 http://craigvetter.com/pages/Vetter_Fairings/Liberator.html
http://www.v-twinforum.com/forums/general-harley-talk/264394-success-w-1975-harley-flh-w-liberator-fairing.html
the rare amazing things done with Monster trucks... 2017's astonishing feats
and then I thought, why not see what they did for a 2016 best of video? (skip the first 30 seconds)
15 soldiers in the 27th Infantry Division, 105th Infantry, were sketched by one of their own, Stan Dube, during WW2, and his son just discovered some of the drawings in a box in the attic and would like to get the sketches to the families
above video shows all 15 sketches, if you recognize any of the soldiers in them, email Ira.Dube@yahoo.com
Stan Dube, who died in 2009, was drafted into the Army while studying architecture at Syracuse University, and he put his drawing skills to use by sketching pencil- and charcoal-on-paper portraits of his fellow soldiers stationed in Hawaii in 1943.
The 27th Division, 105th Infantry Regiment, a former New York National Guard unit, which most or all of the other men also were New Yorkers and were badly torn up in the Battle of Saipan
Three of the soldiers signed their names next to Dube's: Kenneth Reid, Joseph Joner Kratky (who were both New Yorkers) and Joe Orbe, who added his nickname, "Solid Jackson."
Using information he found online, Ira Dube was able to track down Kratky and Orbe's relatives in upstate New York. Kratky was killed on Saipan in 1944. Orbe, a New York City native, survived the war and died in 1974.
The unidentified drawings were delivered to the military museum over a month ago and the sketches will be posted on the museum's website it's said.
They would like to reunite the sketches with the family of these soldiers, so... if the museum (like most it's under funded, and run by overworked volunteers) ever gets the images posted, so we can do a good deed and see if we recognize anyone... https://dmna.ny.gov/historic/eventsExhibits.htm is the website. They aren't even mentioned on it yet.
Yes that irritates me, I post a dozen things a day, the damn least that museum can do is make a post about something they got a month ago.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/faces-of-war-who-are-the-men-in-soldiers-wwii-sketches/
http://pix11.com/2017/02/15/son-on-mission-to-identify-world-war-ii-soldiers-drawn-by-his-father/
http://www.fox21news.com/news/photos-do-you-recognize-these-american-heroes/837441059
If this story seems familiar, it's because in Aug 2016 I did a post that was similar http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2016/08/artist-elizabeth-black-delayed.html where some sketches need to be identified and reunited with the families of the guys that were drawn during WW2
This isn't a store. It's one guys garage
Scott built a 20x36-foot second garage and attached it to the back of his main garage, it holds Scott’s collection of more than 3,500 miniature Mustangs, from plastic models to die-casts
http://performance.ford.com/enthusiasts/quick-look/2018/01/wisconsin-mustanger-scott-moen.html?cks=420207650&emailid=FP_FASTNEWS
Memorial convoy for Polish hero truck driver, Lukasz Urban, who was 37 years old in 2016, when shot and stabbed by a terrorist who hijacked his truck and drove it into the crowded Berlin Christmas market
Lukasz Urban from the western village of Roż nowo, near the border with Germany, has been described as the first victim of the attack on December 19 that killed a total of 12 people and injured at least 50. He had been an exemplary truck driver for 15 years.
He was waiting to deliver a shipment of steel in Berlin when his vehicle was hijacked by 24-year-old Tunisian national Anis Amri.
Urban arrived in Berlin on Monday morning, a day ahead of schedule, to deliver 25 tonnes of steel beams to ThyssenKrupp, but they turned him away because the docks were full, and unable to unload the beams at the moment, which had originated in Turin, Italy.
“He arrived at the facility and asked if there was a slot available, which we could not offer because it was full. So we asked him to come back at his scheduled time, [on Tuesday] morning,” the spokeswoman for ThyssenKrupp said.
“Poles have fallen victim to terrorist attacks carried out by Islamic fundamentalists but the tragedy that happened in Berlin is unique when it comes to the ruthlessness and cruelty of the perpetrator,” Ms Szydlo said.
A fundraiser is set up for his family by a UK trucker https://www.gofundme.com/lukaszurban
Survivors described how the kidnapper steered the lorry into places where there was the highest concentration of people. The market, which was next to a major road, enabling it to pick up speed. At 8pm it smashed into the wooden market stalls at around 40mph, killing 12 people and injuring another 50.
Lana Sefovac, a Bosnian who lives in Berlin, said: “The first thing I saw was wood flying all around because he literally smashed the first wooden booth by driving very fast. He was driving directly toward us, directly into us, but then he made a turn because he did not want to drive into (our) booth but where people were. He wanted to run people over.”
A European Arrest Warrant also showed he used six different names, under three different nationalities, the Associated Press said, and he had an asylum claim rejected in July.
In 2011 he fled to Italy after being charged with armed robbery in Tunisia. Claims asylum as a minor.
Sent to prison for four years after committing a series of crimes, including reportedly burning down a school. Italy kicked him out, without pointing him in the direction of Tunisia, or any other muslim country.
He arrived in Germany, where they had the good sense to reject his appeal for asylum, but, didn't find they had the right paperwork to deport him. (Why not a parachute, and toss him out a plane over Tunisia, or any other muslim country?)
Once again it is found that the police failed the people, by knowing of a muslim extremist and not deporting him. The 24-year-old was put under covert surveillance by German authorities for more than six months after they received a tip in March.
Surveillance was called off in September after turning up nothing more than him dealing drugs in a Berlin park and getting involved in a bar brawl, also charged with assault, he didn't bother appearing in court. Apparently, German law enforcement doesn't find immigrants with this behavior warrant being brought to the nearest border, and kicked in the ass to show them the motivation to move off, in a direction away from Germany.
But Mr Jaeger said security agencies swapped counter-terrorism information about him as recently as November.
German media reported that Amri was not deported because Tunisia initially claimed he was not a citizen and he did not have the correct papers to be repatriated. (they don't want him returned, obviously).
Authorities said the "modus operandi" of the attack had echoes of July's atrocity in Nice in the south of France, in which 86 people died, with the target of the attack "highly symbolic".
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/hundreds-mourners-attend-funeral-berlin-attack-christmas-market-polish-lorry-driver-killed-lukasz-a7502481.html
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/dec/20/police-pore-over-polish-lorry-driver-lukasz-urban-final-hours-berlin-attack
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/12/21/berlin-attack-lorry-driver-told-wife-would-late-came-terror/
Armor All... did you ever see the original advertising mascot?
The original label (in the viking's hand) say's Protects and Beautifies, it's also below, in the advertising
did you notice the arrows have words? "Fear of nagging sales" is one, "Skylab" is another. "Fear itself" and "Inflation"
it's quite the complicated piece of art, with all the people the viking is shielding, and their banners. It's a lot like a Beatles piece of hand drawn art. Very busy.
Well, it was invented in 1962, by polymer chemist Joe Palcher, Joe discovered a “miracle formula” that protected rubber, plastic, and vinyl from UV radiation and ozone.
A pinterest post contradicts the official website info, and says
"Byron Quivey, a race car builder, racer, and a custom wheelwright who owned a service shop in Santa Ana, was instrumental in the origin of the product called Armor All. He had a friend named Joe Palcher who was a chemist who had a product my grandfather encouraged him to produce"
It's quickly sold off, and resold, and resold - as a company I mean. It looks like it took a while to catch on and get marketing, distribution, and consumer demand.
In 1966 Briggs Cunningham was using it on the cars in his museum (according to a editorial in Street Rodder Jan 2018 issue) and motivated Joe to get into sales and production of his miracle juice. They named it Tri Don, that's No Dirt backwards
In 1972, marketing expert and car enthusiast Alan Rypinski bought the rights to Joe’s company, renamed the product Armor All® Protectant
In 1979 it was bought by a company, in 1996 it was bought by a corporation, and in 2010 it was bought by investors. In 2015 it was bought again.
The original art was too busy for all these fast slick corporate types with no soul, so they simplified it, and changed the arrows to a bolt of lightning, the bottle in his hand became a hammer, and they beat the cool factor out of the mascot original art until it was a rubber stamp simple design
http://www.armorall.com/about-us/history
http://www.armorall.com/sites/default/files/armor_all_desktop_41_module_2_0.jpg
https://www.underconsideration.com/brandnew/archives/from_marauder_to_squeaky_clean.php
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/510666045225059411/
thank you! Today is off to a great start!
Thank you Karl, Bruce, David, Joseph, Gordon!
The good people at MSD happen to have a factory reconditioned distributor for a hundred less than normal, and due to your generosity, I'm finally going to have good ignition!
most people who were in the military before the internet and cell phones were invented have been in a big phone center, somewhere, but I bet few were on a phone bus!
The New England Telephone Company had a fleet of buses with phone banks inside that could be connected to local phone lines. These “telebuses” drove to wherever they were needed, hooked up their phones, and welcomed callers to come onboard.
this one is at Naval Training Station Newport RI during World War II
Telebuses survived long after the war and were used at the Newport Jazz Festival as late as 1957.
https://navalwarcollegemuseum.blogspot.com/2016/05/the-telebus-comes-to-naval-training.html
Wednesday, January 03, 2018
a WASP with a Fifinella patch? Now that is one cool pilot!
the Fifinella was a female gremlin that gave airplane crews lots of problems, created by Rould Dahl and the patch was drawn by Disney studios
http://pistonwings.tumblr.com/post/158871279320/dieselfutures-wasps-women-air-service-pilots
I found a P 47 with nose art, the Hun Hunter, and the first thing I did was hope it was by George Rarey, but no. The second thing I did was spend 15 minutes finding that post on P 47 nose art by Rarey. Some posts really make me do extra work!
If you don't recall the George Rarey story, here's the link.
http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2015/02/i-had-not-known-p-47s-had-nose-art-too.html
He was an incredible nose art painter, cartoonist, and a P 47 pilot!
the above image is from http://pistonwings.tumblr.com/post/166734286605
and now we know the name of the airplane http://pistonwings.tumblr.com/post/154403526650/usaac-official-hun-hunter-xiv#notes
by coincidence they also had the next photo of this P 47 getting repaired... but get a load of the art down the side!
lower left corner of the bottom photo... THAT'S THE SAME NOSE ART! Whoa!
Thanks David! Here is a documentary car guy/ route 66 show from comedian Billy Connelly! He takes a trike from Chicago down the 66 to LA
You can look on Youtube for the other episodes, or ones with better resolution
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2029926/Billy-Connolly-finally-opens-Route-66-trike-crash.html
Darn it Gary, you made me all warm and fuzzy with the compliment of the day. I swear to god I'm trotting this out next job interview or someone asks about my blog
"you are gold standard of this type of blog"
referring to getting me to go to Africa's many car shows to cover them, when he sent me the car show calendar for 2018's events in South Africa http://www.saclassic.co.za/south-africa-classic-car-shows-events/#
referring to getting me to go to Africa's many car shows to cover them, when he sent me the car show calendar for 2018's events in South Africa http://www.saclassic.co.za/south-africa-classic-car-shows-events/#
Full service gas stations, they used to be common, and evolved from marketing attempts to get business, then nearly disappeared like most fads, when "mom n pop" gas stations lost out to corporations who were to cheap to cater to customers
And now, Oregon loses it's historical abnormality of being the last west coast state that required every filling station be staffed by attendants who pump your gas for you. (It's still probably the only physician assisted, suicide legal state though.)
Back in 1951, when Oregon mandated that only trained station workers could put "Class 1 flammable liquids" into cars, the state mainly didn't want people accidentally blowing things up.
This ignored that the rest of the human race seems 99.9 percent capable of pumping gas with no formal training, and even, in many cases, being able to walk and chew gum without falling from the car to the pump. Not running into the pumps, or trying to pull away while the filling nozzle is still in the car's filling neck, well, those are still the easy to see signs of morons, idiots, and people who simply MUST make a phone call while pumping a dozen gallons of a very dangerous liquid into something they can barely drive adequately.
In fact, the old state law from 1951 contains 17 justifications for the self-serve ban. They run the gamut from protecting small children left in cars to preventing spills to keeping older drivers from "unreasonable discomfort."
"The justification that's cited most often is that the law creates jobs," said Oregon State University economist Patrick Emerson.
This week, the law went into effect that the state legislature passed last year, allowing gas stations in 15 rural counties with less than 40,000 residents to abandon the full-service model and let customers man the pumps themselves.
Station owners are under no obligation to ditch their attendants, nor are they required to let drivers pump their own gas. It's just an option.
in 2015 Oregon passed a law legalizing "sundown to sun-up" self-serve gas.
http://www.thedrive.com/news/17304/people-in-oregon-are-freaking-out-about-the-thought-of-pumping-their-own-gas-under-a-new-law
http://ktvl.com/news/local/new-law-oks-self-serve-at-rural-oregon-gas-stations-but-will-stations-make-the-change
For whatever reason, laws prohibit drivers from getting their own gas in New Jersey, possibly as a nanny state job protection racket, and penalties for touching pumps range between $50 and $250 for the first offense and up to $500 for subsequent offenses.
http://dailycaller.com/2017/12/31/people-freak-out-after-oregon-strikes-law-banning-self-service-gas-stations/
http://blog.oregonlive.com/commuting/2012/02/why_cant_oregonians_pump_their.html
wheels and wings... were probably only ever found on two things, aircraft and this horse drawn plow
This horse pulled wood snow plow would cut two grooves in the snow and leave a raised cone in the center for the horse to walk on. The seat in front was for the teamster while a second man operated the levers and wheels in back. The levers operated the wings and the wheels operated the blade that cut 6" - 8" deep grooves for sleigh runners. When the spring came the roads became useless for vehicles and the only way to travel was by horseback.
https://www.facebook.com/neatoldphotos.m.lucas2/photos/a.400823796751664.1073741829.400758923424818/867245980109441/?type=3&permPage=1
well done modification. The only biker I've seen with a seat belt.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2009162392444098&set=a.127059220654434.19415.100000510696444&type=3
Thanks for the many comments, in under an hour, of the helmet laws... dang. Next time I ask for where I can find a 32 roadster for sale cheap, you all better chime in this fast and numerous too! Darn you guys... I forget to save my questions for when it's really important and something I can't look up as fast as you all!
To recap:
Helmet not required for adult with full license in OH. www.iihs.org/iihs/topics/laws/helmetuse/mapmotorcyclehelmets
Only 19 US states require all riders to wear a helmet, 3 states don't have any helmet requirement. The remainder have laws that vary on who and when helmets are required. Texas does not require a helmet for an adult (21) if you have medical insurance
Helmet laws http://www.bikersrights.com/states/50state.html
You can ride a trike in the UK with no helmet, trouble is it rains so much you probably wouldn't want to.
3 states with no laws, quite a few with partial... www.iihs.org/iihs/topics/laws/helmetuse/mapmotorcyclehelmets
Here is the breakdown of who is wearing what where... www.iihs.org/iihs/topics/laws/helmetuse?topicName=Motorcycles#tableData
Athena has published her book on the Orient Express! (it's in Italian)
Going up the Orient Express you could enjoy delicious food in an elegant and refined setting. The ticket had a dizzying figure that only the wealthiest people could afford.
But who had the idea of a luxury bed wagon service? Who built the carriages and how have they changed over the years?
The cinema then discovers its potential and uses it for surprise effects and soon makes it the true protagonist of the film. What are the best known films? How have they influenced our lifestyle?
You can even preview the 1st 35 pages! (translating is up to you, good luck!)
https://www.lafeltrinelli.it/libri/athena-sangemini/l-orient-express-storia-cinema/9788892334779
https://www.amazon.it/LOrient-Express-storia-cinema-design/dp/8892334778/ref=sr_1_14/258-8428310-2817247?ie=UTF8&qid=1514997122&sr=8-14&keywords=Sangemini
Luca reviewed it thusly:
A book that begins with a jump back in time, very detailed and well structured. It 'a journey that the author makes us do not on board any train, but a vehicle that made history, both outside and inside the screen. And it does so in a complete and detailed way, making us forget from the first pages our daily routine. Brava.
Giorgio also praises it highly:
A book that comes from the passion for trains, art and cinema. It goes beyond simple history, analyzing the train from various points of view, sometimes surprising. An imaginary journey in time and space certainly to be undertaken.
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