Subsim Truckers

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

The best way to tour the country...stay safe matey

Originally Posted by Wolferz

Swamprat doesn't want to end up on Gilligan's Island.

Or a thin ice fishing bar in MN; or I-40 after a barge wiped out he bridge (fatalities) in OK(2002); nor the crossing on I-35; 8/2/07 at Minneapolis MN.(fatalities) I can't think of the number of times I've crossed either bridge in a big rig! With the age of the road system in America infrastructure-wise, the cruise ship might be a little safer!

[swamprat69er]

Originally Posted by Wolferz

Swamprat doesn't want to end up on Gilligan's Island.

As long as Ginger is there it wouldn't be all that bad, but with my luck it would be Mrs. Howell I would be stranded with.

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

Far better than Davy Jones' Locker I suppose

I've had one 'up close and personal' experience with the bottom and I don't want another one. The Holger Nielson* method of artificial respiration had just been made the popular method of resuscitation when I found the bottom of the lake. As much as people say I am full of s??t, and it floats, I don't. I sink straight to the bottom.
For those of you that are too young to know this, this is the only method I know well.
*

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by swamprat69er

As long as Ginger is there it wouldn't be all that bad, but with my luck it would be Mrs. Howell I would be stranded with.


I've had one 'up close and personal' experience with the bottom and I don't want another one. The Holger Nielson* method of artificial respiration had just been made the popular method of resuscitation when I found the bottom of the lake. As much as people say I am full of s??t, and it floats, I don't. I sink straight to the bottom.
For those of you that are too young to know this, this is the only method I know well.
*

Still good if you don't have one of these(photo below) in the age of HIV. Had to employ a variation of the old style technique around 2000 in a Social Security office on a 7' gentleman who had turned blue. We had 'blood-borne pathogen' training but no masks were issued back then. One should be in your rig; the life you save may be your own just cuz it's there! I carry one in my BDU pocket and auto. They're too dirt cheap not to have..

[swamprat69er]

Originally Posted by Aktungbby

Still good if you don't have one of these(photo below) in the age of HIV. Had to employ a variation of the old style technique around 2000 in a Social Security office on a 7' gentleman who had turned blue. We had 'blood-borne pathogen' training but no masks were issued back then. One should be in your rig; the life you save may be your own just cuz it's there! I carry one in my BDU pocket and auto. They're too dirt cheap not to have..

I will look into getting a couple of them. I am going to North Bay this week and I will be near Safety Supply/Acklands.

[Wolferz]

Keep a weather eye out , Neal. It's that time of year again.

My dad drove into the tail end of a twister one spring day and got shoved into the median on I-65 just north of the Tennessee border. He met some downed high tension power lines that busted the windshield out of his tractor and nearly cut through the post on the passenger side.

Stay safe out there.

[TarJak]

Originally Posted by Wolferz

Swamprat doesn't want to end up on Gilligan's Island.

What does he have against Australia?

[Wolferz]

Originally Posted by TarJak

What does he have against Australia?

Isn't Australia considered a small continent?

[swamprat69er]

nothing against Australia except; it is too warm at Christmas for traditional snowball fights,
you drive on the wrong side of the road,
the steering wheel is on the wrong side of the vehicle,
there are too many nasty creatures that either sting or bite or just eat,
and finally, I've never been off the North American continent and absolutely no desire to.

[GoldenRivet]

If you run across a Texas tagged Black Nissan Titan with a 40' extension ladder up top, give a couple honks.

Love the road.

[TarJak]

Originally Posted by Wolferz

Isn't Australia considered a small continent?

Yes, the island continent.

Originally Posted by swamprat69er

nothing against Australia except; it is too warm at Christmas for traditional snowball fights,
you drive on the wrong side of the road,
the steering wheel is on the wrong side of the vehicle,
there are too many nasty creatures that either sting or bite or just eat,
and finally, I've never been off the North American continent and absolutely no desire to.

LOL But going to the beach on Xmas day is a great tradition here.

We drive on the right side, you guys drive on the wrong side.

The nasties are a non issue and only attack tourists who are afraid of them.

As for desire until you leave view do you know you live in the best place on earth? Having been a few places outside Australia, I know I do

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by swamprat69er

As long as Ginger is there it wouldn't be all that bad, but with my luck it would be Mrs. Howell I would be stranded with.


I've had one 'up close and personal' experience with the bottom and I don't want another one. The Holger Nielson* method of artificial respiration had just been made the popular method of resuscitation when I found the bottom of the lake. As much as people say I am full of s??t, and it floats, I don't. I sink straight to the bottom.
For those of you that are too young to know this, this is the only method I know well.
*

Crikey!! I remember performing that method years ago whilst undertaking my lifeguard certificates

[Tango589]

Originally Posted by swamprat69er

As long as Ginger is there it wouldn't be all that bad, but with my luck it would be Mrs. Howell I would be stranded with.


I've had one 'up close and personal' experience with the bottom and I don't want another one. The Holger Nielson* method of artificial respiration had just been made the popular method of resuscitation when I found the bottom of the lake. As much as people say I am full of s??t, and it floats, I don't. I sink straight to the bottom.
For those of you that are too young to know this, this is the only method I know well.
*

In this demo, if the victims elbows touch, you've probably gone too far. IMHO the best part of that video was at 1:40.

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by TarJak

We drive on the right side, you guys drive on the wrong side.

No, you drive on the left side, which is the opposite side of the right side, which is to say you drive on the sinister side. How gauche of you.

[Wolferz]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

No, you drive on the left side, which is the opposite side of the right side, which is to say you drive on the sinister side. How gauche of you.

It's all relative as long as you don't drive on the suicide. Like the Ford Expedition loaded with a huge family that tried to pass me on I-40 in Tennessee as we approached a construction zone. The right lane was closed and barricaded but, the driver seemed to have missed the signs instructing a merge to the left. I had other truckers hollering for me to watch out for this idiot and I saw him almost eat the Mansfield bar on my trailer. He passed me after we cleared the construction and a pack of kids were hanging out of the windows. A few miles down the road, they were pulled over in the break down lane and they were all out of the vehicle heading for the woods.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Wolferz

It's all relative as long as you don't drive on the suicide.

LOL