In a message dated 03/06/2003 10:49:32 PM Mountain Standard Time,
kgb2@centurytel.net writes:
> Take it from one who knows......................Buses are dangerous. Picture
> yourself trying to steer a slow, ungainly 30,000lb box down the road. Now
> picture
> this same box on a slalom course with a few hundred Toyotas or Datsuns, or
> whatever, racing on the same course. Are you beginning to see targets
> painted on
> each side of your bus? Personally, I would rather be driving on the streets
> of
> Baghdad on opening day of the "festivities". Give me a plane any day.
>
I interviewed a long haul bus driver a few years ago for a truck driving job.
He told me how his company had an El Paso to Denver Run that was non-stop.
I asked him how they did this as that is too far to drive per DOT regualtions
and he said it was a team operation. I replied that I had never seen a bus
with a "sleeper". Thats the box on the back of big trucks where the second
driver sleeps while the first driver drives.
He told me they just spread some blankets on top of the luggage down under
the passengers and slept there! All kinds of DOT and OSHA violations here.
Robert Houston
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and
degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is
worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing
to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a
miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by
the exertions of better men than himself.<A
HREF="http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/John_Stuart_Mill/";>John Stuart
Mill</A> (1806 - 1873)
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