Stranded by company out of state with no money

Well y'all do 10 off duty if you want might not be in the regs but I'm sure a lawyer will have a field day if you get in an accident.
Your honor I believe the driver was fatigued, they did not have a bed in the truck and cannot produce a motel receipt.

 

Being technically wrong about the regs, $22 bucks

Having the last word in an internet forum, Priceless

lol

 

I'm just wondering why 22? Does it have a hidden meaning?

BTW I'm not paying mwhahahahaha

 

What is it about dry van that you hate?

God bless every American and their families! God bless the U.S.A.!

 

I've pondered this I&O.... I think it's the common-place nature of it, the sitting still and waiting, the always cramped docking & parking situations, my own ego maybe, a feeling of having graduated above it, possibly?......

I'm not entirely sure, I load & unload these guys... that's my job. I like my job. But I loathe a van (about as much as I dislike that left, inner, foremost BALD drive tire on the left-hand tractor - it's been fixed, btw).

 

You mean after being out of work for a year AND having the huge medical bill to pay? Apparently math eludes some people, or maybe you have a hundred+ thousand put away for emergencies. Good for you if you do but not everyone is so lucky. The idea that anyone who has worked steadily should have money put away is beyond absurd. How do think people making $7-$10 an hour are going to save money? A lot of people have to work multiple jobs just to keep a roof over their heads. I know a couple of those people myself and nobody works harder than they do. The last thing they need is someone telling them they must be doing something wrong if they don't have money saved for a rainy day. EVERY day is a rainy day. smh

 

Also if that isnt enough you need to prepare for a bit of pain. In the past they establish a IV Line, some Oxygen and a bit of saline. When that is settled out comes the medicine maybe a little of this and a little of that according to your symptoms. IF someone has a broken bone, hook a nitrous over the breather mask and wait a few minutes, the wailing will stop a while. Enough to settle down and be still for the initial problem procedures etc. Pain killers? Sure, just quit making noise like that.

Fast forward to today. You don't get a dam thing until if you make it alive to a CT or Xray that confirms you got a break etc. And only then you will get something. By then you also are deyhdrated becuase your body has loss blood and pulled fluid from somewhere else. You need saline. Oxygen would come in handly but it's not for you. You would be surprised at how it settles your brain down and gives your body something to burn when it comes to prying metabolism into your cells from the meal you had earlier. (Oxygen burns a little bit, like a fire allowing the cells to use the food energy in a certain way.. someone correct me ..)

A while ago as in decades ago when waiting to see if I had a destroyed knee or not vs a pallet jack and three tons of eggs where someone in the warehouse failed to clean up the water in my dock area prior to that morning. Anyhow.. there was a patient, a elderly one hauled into the Troy ER that day. Troy is not a accurate name, I will have to do research of that area, it happens to be a Grand Union distribution near Albany to the south but on the west side of the Hudson.

Woman would not stop screaming about bleeding. Finally the nurse lost it, boomed at her in USMC Issued DI Bass that she is to STOP YELLING. BLEED ALL YOU WANT, WE. Have. more. BLOOD.

Blessed silence. So I can sit there and wait for the tiny amount of moltrin to get pissed away which passed for pain control in that place.

In my time going to the ER was a way of evaluating a people's generosity or none. If they hae everything for you to help you then that area is a candidate for future living and home making. If they were cold unfeeling SOB's treating everyone as drugseekers, then they should burn.

 

Have you been going to the Scottied67 school of law? (Although he disagrees with you also) If you get sued, it is the plaintiff's burden of proof to prove something, rather than your burden of proof to defend against that thing. My father, for the last year's of his life slept in an easy chair rather than a bed. Sleep in in the driver's lounge with nobody there. Let the lawyer prove that you couldn't sleep there effectively, or go get a motel room, and hire some escorts to wear you out, and not get any sleep. Your honor, I'm not fatigued because I have my Motel 6 receipt right here!

 

The thing though is if the judge allows the jury to hear it even if he tells them to ignore the testimony will they really?

 

Should, maybe. Could, absolutely.

Different people have priorities. Knowing that I can survive some hard times without having to beg for help means a lot more to me than having the latest iphone or a brand new pickup truck.

Someone making 7 bucks an hour and living in Manhattan doesn't have a chance but driving truck will provide someone enough to put some money away if they make it a priority.

I'll agree to disagree with you.