#Gas

Bought some gas for one of my cars for the 1st time in months.

$78.15 for 13.026 gals at $5.999/gal for Premium which this particular car requires.

The last time I bought any gas, I think it was around $4.859/gal.

That's a 23.5% increase 🤦🏻‍♂️

I'm glad that I don't drive any of my ICE vehicles much any more. 😉

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PS: I also own a #diesel #truck.

The price of diesel at the same station is now $7.299/gal up from around $5/gal the last time I looked.

That's a 46% increase in about the same time frame. 🤯

Just think what this increase is doing to the #trucking industry & what it will soon do to the cost of everything, because everything (at one stage or another) is delivered by truck.

The #USPS already announced that it is imposing an 8% fuel surcharge on pkg deliveries starting on 4/26.

This won't be the last that we see of such surcharges or other cost increases due to the higher fuel costs precipitated by #Drumpf's idiotic war in #Iran.🤦🏻‍♂️

#Iran War Proving Gulf Is About More Than Oil -
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/politics.html#3

#Technical cooperation centre important to strengthening -
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/world-capitals.html#Basseterre

#FCC -
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/canada.html#42

#Amazon's Zoox to debut robotaxis in #Austin, #Miami later -
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/business.html#41

S 4077 (IS) - #Trucking #Security and -
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/news.html#12

Creepy Encounters and #Jobs That Don’t Feel Safe -
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/business.html#53

#Delhi HC rejects Lalu Yadav's plea in land-for-jobs -
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/cities.html#41a

Truck spotting Australia

Trucks are wonderful machines which bring most of what modern societies need to retailers from wholesalers, accross thousands of kilometers nautical & land miles

Wave to a truck driver when he sees you, their lives are lonely since they need to spend hours on the road and sleep in the trucks too at truck stops

In AU, do NOT overtake a road_train!

• request attention from the driver
• he will signal you when it's safe to pass
• it can take many minutes!
• DON'T BE A HERO!
• The driver has three sometimes even four trailers he pulls, he IS a train on the road
• A lot of mass is moving there
• MASS IS SLOW

Don't be a hero don't pass a road train without thinking!

Road Trains can be fun to drive but it is a tasking job, more intense than driving single trailer trucks. The vehicle mutli-trailer combo acts slow in response to all your moves. forcing you as the driver to pre-calculate them and anticipate the delayed reaction

Definition

A road train, also known as a land train or long combination vehicle (LCV), is a semi-trailer truck used to move road freight more efficiently than single-trailer semi-trailers. It consists of two semi-trailers or more connected together with or without a prime mover.[1] It typically has to be at least two trailers and one prime mover.

Important

Road trains are often used in areas where other forms of heavy transport (freight train, cargo aircraft, container ship) are not feasible or practical

Sources:

moi

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_train

AU road trains

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgI2ZFJcsUU

Man fifth wheel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSYz74SKWFQ
#trucks #trucking #mechanics #mechanical #engines #diesel #road #train #roadtrain #AU #technology #mass #slow #physics #mathematics

Imagine being overtaken on the hills by a semi-trailer.

Imagine the semi being able to maintain highway speed so well it actually gets checked by the RTA for possibly being underweight or speeding.

Imagine a 480km round trip of 35 tonnes GVM producing no CO2 or other emissions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtqWG2kgOKE

That's what we should be looking at now that fuel prices are going up.

#EV #windrose #trucking

“Congratulations, survivor: you have exceeding your weekly driving quotient by 500%. Data indicates that driving was your favourite activity. Be sure to vary your routine for uniform muscle development.”

#driving #trucking

🇨🇦 The Windsor - Detroit crossing is the busiest commercial traffic Can-US border crossing so I understand why he is concerned

"Windsor, Ont., mayor wants to collect tolls for Huron Church Road truck traffic headed to U.S. until Gordie Howe opens"

#Canada #Windsor #Ontario
#Detroit #USA #Trade
#Cdnpoli #Trucking
#Transportation

https://www.ctvnews.ca/windsor/article/windsor-ont-mayor-wants-to-collect-tolls-for-huron-church-road-truck-traffic-headed-to-us-until-gordie-howe-opens/

hatniX spielt „Heavy Cargo - The Truck Simulator“

https://tube.tchncs.de/w/ntw4tyB11ppBqFknnpLYVu