When God made truck drivers
 

truck & bus wrote:
When the Lord was creating Truck Drivers, he was into his sixth day of
overtime when an angel appeared and said, "You're doing a lot of
fiddling around on this one." And the Lord said, "Have you read the
spec on this order?"... "A truck driver has to be able to drive 10-12
or more hours per day, through any type of weather, on any type of
road, know the highway traffic laws of 48 states and 10 provinces, he
has to be ready and able to unload 40,000 lbs of cargo after driving
thru the night, sleep in areas of cities and towns that the police
refuse to patrol."...

We don't have trucks in the UK, only lorries.

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"Earl Purple" wrote



We don't have trucks in the UK, only lorries.







"Truck", meaning lorry has been in common usage for around 30 years in
British English.

I don't know why it took over from lorry, although the change took place
among the population in general, rather than among those who drive or
operate them.

There's nothing wrong with the word as a description- it is derived from the
Greek "Trokhos", meaning "Wheel"




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Regards, Vince.


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"Earl Purple" wrote in message
ups.com...

We don't have trucks in the UK, only lorries.

Thanks to the Truck Act?

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That's why my vehicle's the Piccadilly Line -
It's the size of a county and it comes every two and a half minutes

When God made truck drivers
 

Earl Purple wrote:
truck & bus wrote:
When the Lord was creating Truck Drivers, he was into his sixth day of
overtime when an angel appeared and said, "You're doing a lot of
fiddling around on this one." And the Lord said, "Have you read the
spec on this order?"... "A truck driver has to be able to drive 10-12
or more hours per day, through any type of weather, on any type of
road, know the highway traffic laws of 48 states and 10 provinces, he
has to be ready and able to unload 40,000 lbs of cargo after driving
thru the night, sleep in areas of cities and towns that the police
refuse to patrol."...

We don't have trucks in the UK, only lorries.

We also have EEC Regulations 3820/85 (drivers hours) and 3821/85
(tachographs)to comply with, but I suppose the Yank trucker who started
this thread wouldn't have had the intelligence to realise that(being a
Yank is what makes me think he's thick by the way, not the fact he's a
trucker!).

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On 5 Aug 2005 07:46:16 -0700, "Acrosticus" wrote:

being a Yank is what makes me think he's thick

Racist.

--
James Farrar

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James Farrar wrote:
On 5 Aug 2005 07:46:16 -0700, "Acrosticus" wrote:

being a Yank is what makes me think he's thick

Racist.

No, racist is when somebody is picked on because of their 'race'. It's in
the name if you look carefully. 'Yank' isn't a race.

Stereotypist, maybe. Or statistician ;-)

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On Sun, 07 Aug 2005 13:01:14 GMT, "PC Paul" wrote:

James Farrar wrote:
On 5 Aug 2005 07:46:16 -0700, "Acrosticus" wrote:

being a Yank is what makes me think he's thick

Racist.

No, racist is when somebody is picked on because of their 'race'. It's in
the name if you look carefully. 'Yank' isn't a race.

Race: "a family, tribe, people, or nation" [m-w.com]

--
James Farrar

September's coming soon

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What exactly has this to do with uk.transport*?

please reset your follow-ups to take it off these groups.

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On Tue, 9 Aug 2005 11:37:29 +0100, (Steve Firth)
wrote:

James Farrar wrote:

Race: "a family, tribe, people, or nation"

That is a poor definition

Because it doesn;t fit your argument?

--
James Farrar

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Steve

What you need seems to be a tranquilizer... any type... Or to remove
the diving apparatus from the head...
Why do not try it?

When God made truck drivers
 

Steve

What you need seems to be a tranquilizer... any type... Or to remove
the diving apparatus from the head...
Why do not try it?

When God made truck drivers
 

On Wed, 10 Aug 2005 11:47:13 +0100, (Steve Firth)
wrote:

James Farrar wrote:

On Tue, 9 Aug 2005 11:37:29 +0100, (Steve Firth)
wrote:

James Farrar wrote:

Race: "a family, tribe, people, or nation"

That is a poor definition

Because it doesn;t fit your argument?

Because it omits context, as was given in the section that you snipped.

The section I snipped was a different definition, one you prefer to
the one I gave because it (unlike mine) fits your argument.

--
James Farrar

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On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 01:42:54 +0100, (Steve Firth)
wrote:

James Farrar wrote:

On Wed, 10 Aug 2005 11:47:13 +0100, (Steve Firth)
wrote:

James Farrar wrote:

On Tue, 9 Aug 2005 11:37:29 +0100, (Steve Firth)
wrote:

James Farrar wrote:

Race: "a family, tribe, people, or nation"

That is a poor definition

Because it doesn;t fit your argument?

Because it omits context, as was given in the section that you snipped.

The section I snipped was a different definition, one you prefer to
the one I gave because it (unlike mine) fits your argument.

So now it's your definition?

"mine" = "the one I quoted". Don't be so disingenuous; you know what I
meant.

Funny and there was me thinking it came
from one of those ****-poor online dictionaries.

Actually, Merriam-Webster is a respected dictionary.

Whatever, you're wrong the reference source for the English language is
the OED,

That's not much of a sentence; I believe you missed a semi-colon.

Nonetheless, there is no single source for the English language. The
OED has quirks of its own that many do not accept.

You were wrong, learn to live with it.

No, I was right, just different.

--
James Farrar

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On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 12:17:24 +0100, (Steve Firth)
wrote:

Duhg and his cronies who like to think that the
English language says what they think it means.

The English language means what consensus says it means.

Consensus is that racism includes slights against nationalities as
well as ethnic groups (which are generally less definable anyway).


--
James Farrar

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On Fri, 12 Aug 2005, Steve Firth wrote:

James Farrar wrote:

Consensus is that racism includes slights against nationalities as
well as ethnic groups (which are generally less definable anyway).

Utter ********, there is no such consensus.

Correct - i certainly don't think racism includes nationality-based abuse.
The word for that is chauvinism. More or less.

tom

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I'm a truck driver in Italy and me and my family are thinkig of mooving to Canada, but I will like to know firts how much does a truck driver earn a year in this country. I will also like to know the average living cost of a family of five.