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Post by Joepublic on Jun 22, 2022 22:01:12 GMT 1
Everyone except key workers should have one day off per week until something is done about it. Rail staff are having three days off this week. Next door neighbour took the opportunity to put a roof over his jacuzzi . Lol He voted no overtime as he thinks he’s well paid anyway
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Post by OldGit on Jun 22, 2022 22:41:35 GMT 1
I can't think of the last time I used public transport Fcuk 'em
ETA - actually I can, Bus was 1970's - weird old woman kept trying to tap me up for ciggies, got off at first stop... Got a 'milk train' in the early 80's, left some stuff (actually a Klark Technik audio processor) on the overhead luggage rack in a Tesco bag, went to St. Pancreas lost property every day for a month, never turned up. Had to pay for a new one, fcuk 'em, robbing b'stards.
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Post by oli on Jun 22, 2022 23:37:41 GMT 1
What about one of these? Ford seems to have absolutely nailed it. I’m starting to seriously think about the practicality of LHD. I think it’s going to be another couple of years before they make an electric Ranger. m.youtube.com/watch?v=qSpyDBSca6QI think that Ford threw the kitchen-sink into this truck, if memory serves me correctly? It's the most powerful of its kind by a mile, but also incredibly expensive to manufacture, and an environmental nightmare from the battery production perspective. I know that bit of road well (too well) and the test they are doing is grueling - it justifies such a vehicle. In the UK? Not many places would really push a truck like this to the limit, so the benefits of the top-end power/torque are not squeezed out. Maybe the M74 climbing up out of Dunfries & Galloway northwards, that would see a few vehicles panting for breath for the 10miles or so - that's where my Defender 110 300TDI utterly looses the will to go any faster with a heavy load on the triple-axle trailer! I wasn’t aware there were concerns around the battery production. Was the expense in the form of R&D or per unit manufacturing? They are selling the base models at a very competitive price ($40,000) I wonder if they are making profit on them or this is seen as a first generation loss leader investment? I like the way they’ve produced something that isn’t too wacky. The performance IS wacky but unlike internal combustion engines, whilst bigger engines use more fuel, even if you don’t utilise that extra power, there doesn’t seem to be much of a disadvantage in being over powered for EVs.
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Post by studabear on Jun 23, 2022 10:21:19 GMT 1
Fuel prices aaaaarrrrrrrrggghhhhh!
Can't believe I just put £71 of petrol in a Fiesta.
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Post by remmington on Jun 23, 2022 20:20:47 GMT 1
I can't think of the last time I used public transport Fcuk 'em ETA - actually I can, Bus was 1970's - weird old woman kept trying to tap me up for ciggies, got off at first stop... Got a 'milk train' in the early 80's, left some stuff (actually a Klark Technik audio processor) on the overhead luggage rack in a Tesco bag, went to St. Pancreas lost property every day for a month, never turned up. Had to pay for a new one, fcuk 'em, robbing b'stards.
I got a bit of a "soft spot" for train drivers. It is responsible job - 600 people in carraiges behind you. No - I think they are worth "good pay and conditions". Airline pilots carry 300 people and get paided twice as much (for half the responsiblity). If you can drive a plane/train in the end it is just a "days work".
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Post by OldGit on Jun 23, 2022 20:35:24 GMT 1
Mate, who isn't worth good pay and conditions? Train drivers IMO have a big chip on their shoulder from the pre-Bliar days of union power, they're over-valued these days with all the automatic systems and most of the work being done by the signalling and trackside equipment - it's not as if they have to follow roadsigns or take decisions - same goes for sky-taxi's, these days they pretty much just fill a seat... The ones that work for their money IMO are tanker drivers, fuel, chemicals, food, even stone is transported by them, it's never a static load and unlike railways and flightpaths, there's always someone or something able to impinge on their path with next to zero warning...
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Post by remmington on Jun 23, 2022 20:46:45 GMT 1
Mate, who isn't worth good pay and conditions? Train drivers IMO have a big chip on their shoulder from the pre-Bliar days of union power, they're over-valued these days with all the automatic systems and most of the work being done by the signalling and trackside equipment - it's not as if they have to follow roadsigns or take decisions - same goes for sky-taxi's, these days they pretty much just fill a seat... The ones that work for their money IMO are tanker drivers, fuel, chemicals, food, even stone is transported by them, it's never a static load and unlike railways and flightpaths, there's always someone or something able to impinge on their path with next to zero warning... I agree a "truck driver" who "tramps" and has nights out - is worth money as well. I think we should provide better (free) overnight stops and showers like the do in France I agree with you OldGit
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Post by OldGit on Jun 23, 2022 21:01:37 GMT 1
Yer, the ffrench do have much better driver facilities - I fondly remember 'Les Routiers' roadside cafes, the food was so much better than that offered to car drivers, showers were always working and clean too.
Anyway, off to Costco to fill up in the morning, I don't know whether to 'just' put £99 in it or go large and swipe the card twice and properly fill up......
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Post by valhalla on Jun 23, 2022 22:53:57 GMT 1
Whether they are train-drivers or airline pilots, they will all be out of a job soon. It's just that the train-drivers will have created the conditions to lose their jobs themselves, whereas the pilots are at the mercy of chaotic airports and poor decisions by their bosses; CV19 has really killed their career-progression.
Pilots are worth every penny they get - the certification and continuous testing throughout their careers is just stress piled on stress. Consider this: Despite all the automation systems in the cockpit already, there's no way that an aircraft would be safe to fly without humans sat up front.
Contrast this with trains......automated trains are already running all over the world, no drivers, just fully-automatic controls and signalling from central command-centres. It's the UK here that needs to wake-up and smell the coffee - any sane train-driver would have seen that £50k + per annum was already a good whack of money for relatively little effort, and keeping one's head down when the going was good made more sense than playing the union card. The railways could have been on a resurgence of goodwill and environmental responsibility, especially in the context of fuel-prices shooting upwards, but the idiots have gone and shot themselves in the foot here.
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Post by Rhubarb on Jun 24, 2022 8:10:03 GMT 1
I remember last time I was on a bus,(approx 15 years back) was a bendy bus in South East London. Was a tad drunk and was surfing on the bendy bit. Train: catching the train to Gatwick en-route to Tenerife,(approx 10 years back) had to stand for the 45 minute journey, was mid morning too.
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Post by Noberator on Jun 24, 2022 21:07:27 GMT 1
I remember last time I was on a bus,(approx 15 years back) was a bendy bus in South East London. Was a tad drunk and Train: catching the train to Gatwick en-route to Tenerife,(approx 10 years back) had to stand for the 45 minute journey, was mid morning too. Surfing Was you picking up from the bendy bus?
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Post by Rhubarb on Jun 24, 2022 23:04:49 GMT 1
I remember last time I was on a bus,(approx 15 years back) was a bendy bus in South East London. Was a tad drunk and Train: catching the train to Gatwick en-route to Tenerife,(approx 10 years back) had to stand for the 45 minute journey, was mid morning too. Surfing Was you picking up from the bendy bus? Remember having a very sore head the next morning ahead of the drive home!
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Post by OldGit on Jun 25, 2022 21:29:04 GMT 1
Well Costco have thoughtfully upped the card authorisation limit to £120, which meant I got approximately 63 litres of dieselly goodness.... I couldn't manage the second go at it to actually brim the tank... I should have (just) enough to see me through the next 4.3 weeks.
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Post by wightdiag on Jun 25, 2022 21:31:57 GMT 1
I just turned down a bargain Jag XF .. a Petrol one that I had been hankering after as diesel engines are no good on the island. Could not face having two 4L V8's as work vehicles at the moment, and it was a bargain too.. sniff...
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Post by Joepublic on Jun 27, 2022 14:59:11 GMT 1
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