"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin (1706-90)
"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending to much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it." - Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
"Motorcycling is not inherently dangerous. It is, however, EXTREMELY unforgiving of inattention, ignorance, incompetence and stupidity!" - Anonymous
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I'm aware of at least one company who took them out due to "technical issues". The issue being that if they left them in and stuck to company policy they'd technically have no fucking employees. And this was over just 6 months.
Amazing what 100% non-compliance can do to any given authority's compliance policies.
Go soothingly on the grease mud, as there lurks the skid demon
One Aussie infrastructure multinational tried to sack one of their staff for using the company ute on a weekend. He'd taken it down his drive to wash it.
They actually did give him a formal written warning. See if you can guess which company's whole fleet now looks like shit.
Go soothingly on the grease mud, as there lurks the skid demon
Worth having a look at some of the routes then and watching how the same vehicle was pinged several times on the same trip indicating the driver doesn't believe in the mantra being put out by their bosses but rather that there is a time and a place where it can be 'safe' to exceed the posted speed limit. Fair enough in my view. Doing it in the work car is a bit daft, if you get a ticket the boss will see it and you'll get a talking to. Doing it in an NZTA vehicle just shows that the driver is a retard.
I don't often drive work vehicles any more, but when I do I take my time.
2 reasons.
1 it doesn't look good when you punt a company car into the side of another car. Especially if the owner of the other car is s regular client.
2 when your getting paid by the hour what's the rush?
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I worked with you in the '80's. One of the "senior" guys at my job would drive the work Vauxhall Chevette on the open road at 80kph. In third. "What's the hurry? we get paid by the hour".. plus if it takes us long enough we get overtime.....
I still remember the whine the thing used to make.
I spun the car 360 degrees on a wet road pressing on with cars parked either side. Didn't hit one. Unbefuckingleivable.
I thought elections were decided by angry posts on social media. - F5 Dave
"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin (1706-90)
"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending to much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it." - Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
"Motorcycling is not inherently dangerous. It is, however, EXTREMELY unforgiving of inattention, ignorance, incompetence and stupidity!" - Anonymous
"Live to Ride, Ride to Live"
Fastest I have had one of my company cars up to was a smidgen under 240km/hr.![]()
I mentioned vegetables once, but I think I got away with it...........
Interesting point.
The public at large may have implicitly agreed to it but I sure as hell didn't.
The laws regarding speed on public roads are definitely an order of magnitude less oppressive than legalised racism but the principle is the same - the majority imposing their ideology on the minority when the "illegal" actions of the said minority do absolutely no harm to anyone, especially the said majority.
"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin (1706-90)
"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending to much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it." - Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
"Motorcycling is not inherently dangerous. It is, however, EXTREMELY unforgiving of inattention, ignorance, incompetence and stupidity!" - Anonymous
"Live to Ride, Ride to Live"
Winding up drongos, foil hat wearers and over sensitive KBers for over 14,000 posts...........![]()
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