And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
It isn't any harder putting one where these are than it is backing into a freight terminal. Video is accelerated. All those guys running around behind and alongside the trailers are doing the brunt of the work. What always got to me was backing into a dark building.
Nothing a guy who used to set frac tanks in the oilfield couldn't handle. At least for these guys there's no mud or uneven ground or manifold hoses to hook up and leaks to plug.
Nothing like being the mechanic on site, and watch the operator slipping just off the edge of a mat and slicing through the sidewall of a steering tire.
One of my additional duties in the Corps was embarkation officer. Preparing and marking material for transport aboard ships or aircraft, and then planning the load. For shipboard carriage we had scaled drawings of the cargo spaces and scaled paper cut-outs of vehicles. We were taught that if we could show - with the paper - that we could fill a given space with a mess of vehicles, the drivers and the crew could make that happen. We weren't to worry about turning radii, miniscule clearances, etc.
I've watched a couple of drivers from work back up B-Trains around a corner. I'm happy if I can back one up a hundred feet.
ReplyDeleteI don't know about the rest of you-all but I am impressed with these drivers.
ReplyDeleteNot as hard as it looks. Small trailers are far harder to back up.
ReplyDeleteIt isn't any harder putting one where these are than it is backing into a freight terminal. Video is accelerated. All those guys running around behind and alongside the trailers are doing the brunt of the work.
ReplyDeleteWhat always got to me was backing into a dark building.
Having someone giving you directions really helps in tight situations.
Deleteexcept if these guys miss, they go into the drink.
DeleteNothing a guy who used to set frac tanks in the oilfield couldn't handle. At least for these guys there's no mud or uneven ground or manifold hoses to hook up and leaks to plug.
ReplyDeleteNothing like being the mechanic on site, and watch the operator slipping just off the edge of a mat and slicing through the sidewall of a steering tire.
DeleteThe hardest part is for the last driver to get out of the cab.
ReplyDeleteOne of my additional duties in the Corps was embarkation officer. Preparing and marking material for transport aboard ships or aircraft, and then planning the load. For shipboard carriage we had scaled drawings of the cargo spaces and scaled paper cut-outs of vehicles. We were taught that if we could show - with the paper - that we could fill a given space with a mess of vehicles, the drivers and the crew could make that happen. We weren't to worry about turning radii, miniscule clearances, etc.
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