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Strategies & Market Trends : Winter in the Great White North -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Graystone who wrote (4865)	7/20/2003 7:18:21 AM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 8273

Actually if the truck was white and had round wheels it is supposed to be left in neutral on a hill, facing or not facing opposing traffic, particularly if there is no curb and it is not a Vandura. The wheels are supposed to be turned towards to the right, (if there is no curb -- don't ask why yet), the parking brake put on, the transmission left in neutral, with the engine idling, door unlocked, and the ejection seat armed. The idea is that if there is no curb the vehicular device will roll backwards off the road, shear the fire hydrant, knock over the utility pole, pierce the gas tank, and dig the hitch into the ground, thus rupturing the utility gas line and causing a city block wide explosion. So actually your assistant was right. It's in the road safety book. If the vehicle was not left in neutral it would not roll off the road, and would have no chance of causing a major disaster, allowing for insurance claims, malthusian checks and a surge of local industry in the building and repair trades. You are just anti-disaster. If disaster is inevitable given the ordinary human <font color=crimson>fu</font> co-efficient, then plan to have regular disasters and learn how to profit by them. If you come back from the job and your truck: 1. is still there. 2 is undamaged. 3. has all its equipment still intact inside 4. has no tickets. It is bad day. You are living in a much too buttoned down and culturally insensitive neighbourhood. EC<:-}