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Brocky

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  1. I know nothing about large ships, BUT are the rudder and propulsion equipment computer controlled??? So that the loss of power creates loss of control?? If so, what about all the computer control of airplanes and trucks??? Accidents waiting to happen???

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  2. Swishy, Thank You!!! That looks a lot like whatever road our bus was on coming southwest out of Cairns up into the tableland. With some very pretty waterfalls, the fig tree with a boardwalk around it,  and good dairy farming country. 

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  3. On 3/17/2024 at 11:02 AM, mechohaulic said:

    automatic topic going to brake cans !!! it's a group effort going off topic this time ;; didn't do it on my own.

    And then to driver training!!!!!!  Started first driving was at 8-10 0n farm tractors, and farm trucks in the field. In 1962 2nd half of my senior year in high school took Drivers ED in a 1962 Dodge Dart, 318, 3 speed Torque Flight, then took my road test on my mothers 1952 Dodge with Fluid Drive.. Took my NYS Class 1 Chauffeurs test in 1967 on a 1953 Brockway 154, Flathead Continental gas job, 5th direct trans, and air 2 speed.

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  4. You Tube Slim Dusty!!! He was the greatest Australian country singer ever... Mostly he told tales of Australian history in the Tom T Hall style as well as about 70 trucking songs... Recorded 104 albums in his lifetime, Sang "Waltzing Matilda", the unofficial national anthem, at the closing ceremony of the 2000 Sydney Olympics.

  5. 1 hour ago, 70mackMB said:

    You keep that white crap out there. Another week or two lll be mowing up here.    .....Hippy

    I could go out and trim the weeds NOW!!!

  6. In 1969 I drove a White 3000 in the city of Syracuse NY for over a year.. Then they replaced it with a Compact.. There was not room enough between the wall under the seat and the clutch pedal to bring my foot up onto the clutch!!! Had to swing it over the brake and back.

  7. Mech, Same down here: Last Saturday night on I-26 north of Spartanburg SC, Dry Road, 4 or 5 cars and 1 tractor trailer.. Big A$$ FIRE and 5 people from one family dead..  NO more details on the news as to cause???

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