An old man's career goes flat, Snackbar moves to open deck

Give it 100k miles and see if the crash nanny is still only annoying. This truck I have will track people going up ramps, randomly panic at an overhead sign or steel overpass, or try to stop at nothing at all. Every manufacturer of these systems tout how much improved the new systems are over the previous system, but they all do the same thing eventually. Dealers and company shops try to realign them, but most fail horribly and only make them worse.

As far as the cameras, you can bet, if We-lie is involved with it, they'll critique every time it blips. Currently my camera will decide to give me the exclamation point whenever it wants, whether it was a critical event or not. Driving straight down a smooth road and I look up and it's on, if it were a driver facing camera, they'd have video of me flipping it off.

 

But We-lie isn't involved with the reviewing yet. Not sure how much Drew will call, but I only got 1 from Tim. Of course, according to a recent forum replay, Mike said the whole Smartdrive system was having issues, so Drew hasn't had anything to review. Not that I care, call me, it'll just give me another outlet to rant about We-lie to someone who can't do a #### thing about how they're gonna continue to #### up a good company.

 

It's amazing, the green machine has had the same damage on it since I've been here, but after Drew moved out there, all of a sudden, Mike decides to make him do a full inspection on it every trip, and eliminate it's use on the weekend. Again, I couldn't care less...I don't pay for the fuel so I'll PC to wherever I got to go in a 6.5 mpg truck when fuel is hovering around $5/gal again instead of a 20 mpg car using cheaper priced gas...not my money, so what do I care. And if they take PC away, I'll just use available drive time and have less hours to make them money.

 

I saw proof that the eco-freaks are truely insane over the weekend. I bought a crunchwrap meal at taco-hell in Joisey. They gave me my plastic drink cup, with a PAPER straw. Claiming that millions of straws are causing plastic pollution...but the plastic cup isn't? The county around Gainesville FL tried that, but there were so many complaints that the local restaurants fought back because they had a large enough drop in business that they actually got the new law banning plastic straws overturned. Some individual places around the liberal UF campus still only offer paper straws, but the majority of places are providing plastic straws again.