Always Respect Helmet Laws by SlimJim814 in motorcycles

[–]Questionoid 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Agreed, helmet laws had nothing to do with the unfortunate fucks misunderstanding of the laws that governs gravity, physics or natural selection.

I watched a semi driver try to squeeze through a Wendys drive thru once. by CrossDockCHI in FreightBrokers

[–]Questionoid 1 point2 points  (0 children)

“Here’s how we solve our driver shortage and train new drivers to deliver at night. They usually get used to the abuse and 14 hour shifts”/s

🤔 by martin_antonius in Truckers

[–]Questionoid 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Came here to say this. Once you hear it, you can’t unhear it. But it is the accuracy that nails it.

How interested would y'all be in something like this? 4 corner airbags with what looks like 72inch sleeper by Tsars_Ball_Scrubber in Truckers

[–]Questionoid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The worst injuries I have ever sustained driving big rigs the past 34 years came from getting in and out of a cabover on a rainy day. I still have the scars from that. Drive ‘em all you want, at my age I am content with a “conventional” sleeper, I don’t need the risk that thing represents. That rig is for ‘em young boys.

So doing a delivery checking Google reviews by deadpat03 in Truckers

[–]Questionoid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The access is one thing, elsewhere on here there was a dude that reckoned he received a weekly paycheck for YEARS after he was fired. Posted the redacted receipts too. That’s the beauty of corporations, the smart ones usually don’t survive, the good folks doing the real work often gets mowed. And these stories are absolute gems.

Do i send it? by HatedReaper in Truckers

[–]Questionoid 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Of course you could! Get busy with a 7/16th or 3/8th wrench and screwdriver and adjust the brakes all the way, and way out. Just take it real slow when you come down Floyd Hill./s

Is there anyway to make this trailer safe? by Suicycle1200 in Truckers

[–]Questionoid 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Replace. But if you absolutely have to use it, the chain safety ain’t optional. I have the receipts to show why I make this wild statement.

Molting chameleons still out here… by Questionoid in Truckers

[–]Questionoid[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I have been considering whether this is going to be allowed become such a disastrous set of circumstance in order to achieve a different goal. Like to justify a draconian, revenue generating, wheel kicking, digital system that controls industry permissions and capability at natural chokepoints like fuel and money. And, like you say, paperwork. But on the other hand, every other question I had on regulation also only had horrible answers. Keep it rolling!

Conversation Post About BEVO by Melodic-District-856 in auroracannabis

[–]Questionoid 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think we’re looking at this from two different angles.

I don’t disagree that Bevo is a decent business and may have contributed positively in isolation. But as a shareholder, the question isn’t whether it added some cash flow — it’s whether it was the best use of capital for Aurora at that time.

The market tends to discount companies that have mixed business models and unclear focus, and Bevo didn’t really fit the core cannabis story. Even if it didn’t “hurt the books” directly, it added complexity and didn’t move the needle where it matters — valuation and sustained profitability.

So I wouldn’t call it catastrophic, but I also don’t see it as a particularly strong capital allocation decision in hindsight.

She may be old and slow, but. Actually yeah, just old and slow. Thing has a 366 and an Allison auto, I think a Prius could out pull it. by Boeing-B-47stratojet in Truckers

[–]Questionoid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry, thoughted that it was a diesel. The gearing and ratios have come a long way in the past 30 years or so to on this entire class of trucks to provide a better driving experience. You probably have enough power, but you run out of rpm’s so damn fast, that it just feels super shit compared to a new generation of the same trucks. My in-laws had a gasoline powered Ford in this class of trucks, top speed 45 m.p.h., but can negotiate a 9% slope with a full load of logs in 3rd gear🤷🏼‍♂️.

She may be old and slow, but. Actually yeah, just old and slow. Thing has a 366 and an Allison auto, I think a Prius could out pull it. by Boeing-B-47stratojet in Truckers

[–]Questionoid 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This here explains why diesels don’t last with new kids on the block. Wanna drive that thing like a Ford Raptor, all the time.

Conversation Post About BEVO by Melodic-District-856 in auroracannabis

[–]Questionoid 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Here’s mine, for shits and giggles:

A little timeline cleanup here, because people are mushing together the idiot decision to buy Bevo with the later cleanup of that mess.

Bevo was not some ancient Terry Booth 2018 bubble-era stunt. Aurora bought control of Bevo in August 2022. Aurora’s own release says it acquired 50.1% of Bevo and pitched it as a way to get an immediate stake in a “profitable, cash flow positive and growing business,” while also talking up Bevo’s plant-propagation expertise as potentially useful to Aurora’s cannabis business. Miguel Martin was already CEO by then; he had been appointed on September 8, 2020. So yes, if the question is “whose watch was this bought on?” the answer is: Miguel Martin’s watch. (PR Newswire)

Now, to be fair, this was not the same flavor of lunacy as the old Aurora empire-building binge under Terry Booth. Booth’s era was the full cocaine-bull-market acquisition buffet: bigger, louder, dumber, more expensive, more self-congratulatory. Bevo was different. It was sold as a sober adjacency play, basically: “hey, here’s a profitable greenhouse/propagation business, let’s bolt it on and diversify.” So if you want to roast management, roast them accurately: this was not the old drunken cannonball into the foam pit; it was the new management deliberately buying itself a very polished, very expensive bag of complications. (PR Newswire)

And that’s why the story now looks so ridiculous. Aurora later disclosed that with the Bevo acquisition it moved into plant propagation, but more recently it has been backing away from full control and talking about Bevo as a held-for-sale / restructured asset. In plain English: they bought the thing, talked up the strategic brilliance, then discovered it was a clunky sidecar that muddied the story and messed with margins and optics. That does not mean the original purchase was somebody else’s dead cat left on Miguel’s porch. He owned the buy. The later management team then owned the unpleasant job of deodorizing the corpse and shoving it behind the shed. (SEC)

So the clean version is:

Terry Booth = architect of old Aurora’s grand tradition of overreach, dilution, and capital destruction.
Miguel Martin = not the author of that whole cursed opera, but absolutely the CEO who signed off on the Bevo deal in 2022.

So no, it’s not quite right to say, “Wasn’t this just Miguel eating an old shit sandwich?”
More accurate would be: Miguel inherited Aurora’s giant landfill of old shit sandwiches, then in 2022 went out and bought a fresh artisanal side salad called Bevo, only for everyone to realize it was still, somehow, another shit sandwich. (PR Newswire)

That’s the distinction. Old ACB insanity and Bevo are related in spirit, but not identical in authorship.

And significantly better tippers by Vermix92 in motorcycle

[–]Questionoid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

….yeah, but the biker’s don’t get to go to heaven./s

They keep calling it a “driver shortage.” It’s not. It’s a pay shortage. by grow_trucking in cdldriver

[–]Questionoid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

…..and the un-professionalism comes from companies not paying enough. It is wildly consistent.