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Requesting good news stories to help with a sudden bout of depression.

 

Turtle Rescue
Annual Crab Party
Stolen Medals Recovered
Ghost Mushrooms

 

Those aren't even bad tunnels. Try Kansas City.

23,871 commercial motor vehicles to 9,366 passenger vehicles

Spoiler: Violation of the Week.

Can you spot the violation?

Spoiler

 

A town in Wales got to experience something out of a SyFy Original Movie coming to life when they suffered a two-day long campaign of terror at the paws of a 'psycho' squirrel that went on a rampage attacking pets and people, injuring 18, before being caught and subsequently euthanized.

Squirrel injures 18 people in two days of attacks in Buckley - BBC News

Bloodthirsty, 'Psycho' Squirrel Attacks 18 in Small Town Christmas Rampage (msn.com)

 

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Yet more supply chain issues

Gutsy of the Governor
Dumb, but gutsy. And I thank him for it.
I'd also have more sympathy for the District Attorneys side if it wasn't for the asshole prosecutors giving themselves the brake drums off the truck as a trophy. Or that they thought it a good idea to charge him in such a way as to give him a penalty worse than if he intended to kill those people.

 

Betty White has died

https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/31/entertainment/betty-white-obituary/index.html

The world has lost one of it's genuine treasures.

 

And the world shall mourn.

 

And another great treasure has been lost:

Sidney Poitier, the legendary actor of The Defiant Ones, Lilies in the Field, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner and In the Heat of the Night, has died at the age of 94.



Farewell Mister Tibbs.

 

Ohio trooper ticketed for rear-ending semi truck on I-70

This idiot was going WAY to fast for conditions.

If this had turned bad, he would have deserved it.

 

Here's a bit of a blast from the past, with a case that rises to new levels of people doing stupid stuff to play Pokemon Go- 2 now former LAPD officers who were fired over a 2017 incident where they blew off a call for backup at an ongoing armed robbery in order to hit a number of Pokestops in order to try and catch a couple Pokemon they had been trying for (all recorded by their cruiser's cameras) just had their appeal denied.

https://kotaku.com/lapd-officers-fired-for-ignoring-robbery-to-play-pokemo-1848335699

https://unicourt.com/case/ca-la23-l...y-within-the-state-of-california-et-al-332278

 

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Yea, he was an idiot.

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Do NOT do this! Look shit up an a map and decide if GPS is screwing with you.
GPS has no idea about road conditions. GPS does not take road restrictions into account.
Do NOT rely on GPS!

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I'm honestly not sure if I agree with the trucker here or not.
I mean, the normal rules for merging, the truck had right of way.
And the 4-wheeler was being a shitbag, and looked like he was trying to climb into the cab.
Not sure if he deserved to lose a leg though (assuming he was trying for insurance to begin with).
But the shitbag isn't going to do this again.

 

Meat Loaf is dead

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-27469244

Fuck this world

 

And Lewie Anderson as well.

Louie Anderson has died from cancer at the age of 68.

 

Should have known the year was going into the shitter.

Maybe the plague probably being carried by those escaped monkeys in Pennsylvania will take care of it for us.

 

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Spoiler

A VERY bad day.

 

Illinois state police roll out tool to help truckers-and motorists track highway shootings
Sign of the times I guess.

 

Wow. The fact that such a thing might be needed...

 

It is!

 

I know. It's just very depressing that this kind of Mad Max shit is the new normal.

 

It's been normal for a while now. I can remember jokes about Chicago and Detroit and highway shootings from the 80's. Likewise California (LA) and New York need something like this as well.

I've been driving through New York highways and seen pick-ups behind semis driving down the road with people in the back of the semi throwing freight to people standing on the pick-ups hood before tossing it to people in the bed of the pick-up. The semi driver knew about it, but couldn't do anything because they'd just shoot him if he tried. And if he lived, any of them injured could and would sue him. And in a NY court probably win.

 

Crash scatters 1000lb batteries across interstate
And a horrifyingly bad day was had by many people.

 

WATCH: This commercial for a bread company led to one of the greatest trucking movies of all time

Spoiler: commercial for a bread company

This one is important. This one might be affecting you guys as well.
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Spoiler: booted off the road

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Spoiler: Oops!

That's why wide loads need escort vehicles. Either the trucking company was trying to save money, or the escort wasn't doing his job. But the driver of the white truck isn't the least bit at fault here.
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2 really good drivers, 1 really bad
Two videos on this one, one of which is slow to upload, but both are good dashcam videos of just how quickly road conditions change.

I knew both of them
It isn't mentioned in the article, but they both worked for SBS. SBS is one of those companies that I go to about once a month or so. I've had to deal with both of them in the past, him more than her unfortunately. Changes in policy since covid meant I hadn't seen her in a while. I had no idea she was dating him though. I used to joke with one of their old employees about feeling sorry for however ended up dating him. He was VERY strange, and more than a little aggressive. Aggression isn't actually all that uncommon in the business though, and I'd occasionally see him at other locations as well. I don't think anyone liked him, and FA kicked him off their dock once.

Now for something completely different and not nearly so depressing [and very unusual for me, not trucking related].
Of course, get ready to have your self esteem kicked in the balls.

 

Everbody remember how about a year ago a ship got stuck in the Suez Canal?

Another ship, owned by the same company has run aground in the Chesapeake Bay

 

They're having steering issues?

 

It had the same captain too.

 

Ah! An explanation begins to form!

 

Queen Elizabeth II has died.

 

Farewell, Your Majesty. And thanks for a topsy-turvy reign.

Long Live the Queen.