TeamsterGrrrl

Especially in South Dakota, with weight governed only by Bridge Formula B... The current record is around 190,000 pounds on 20 axles!

And best not to help fate with our own stupidity! Back when I started at Hostess in the 70s the old heads reminded me to use the seat belt, telling me the tale of a driver who fell out of a truck when the door popped open and he was thrown up and to the left on a big bump and was run over by the trailer wheels.

I suspect we're going to see a lot of MAN and Scania designs and bits show up in International Trucks now that VW owns part of the company. They recently updated to a later version of the MAN designed engine, a Scania style column shift and engine brake, etc.. lever just appeared on International's newest truck, and they just made disc brakes standard on their long haul truck. I suspect International will get the future rationalized MAN/Scania engine and hopefully there'll be a V8 in that range. In the meantime, a Scania V8 in an International would be a great image builder, even if it only came stateside for "testing". KSC probably has more details, but can't share them for obvious reasons...

Haldex lists some rebuilts, doesn't say what fits: https://www.haldex.com/en/na/air-wiper-motors/air-wiper-motors---remanufactured/

What really doomed Mack is isolationism- Volvo and Renault are world wide brands, Mack isn't. Thus Mack is only a tenth of Volvo's truck sales, and pretty much disposable.

Dave, sorry to blow up your data free belief system. While falling unemployment may be a factor in the falling uninsured rate, it certainly doesn't account for all of it. As far as the ACA getting everyone insured, no one expected that.

This is why we need more "data points"- on one hand we have the phenomenon of multiple people sometimes gaining insurance through the employment of one. On the other hand we have the fact that over half the population isn't even in the labor force and thus often doesn't benefit from increased employment. And while it's obvious that you're trying to build a poorly constructed argument that Obama's ACA didn't reduce the uninsurance rate, your alternative theory gives credit to falling unemployment which happened on Obama's watch too.

Doesn't matter who they sell Macks to, as long as they sell 'em.

Well if you're so great and wealthy and have all these expensive toys, how come the price of insurance is such a problem for you? And yes, I know what the world's highest lift capacity cargo plane is, the Russians built 2 during the cold war and 1 is operable.

My Part B is around $1200 a year, helps to be in a group. Being "independent" sounds cool, but you have zilch bargaining power...

One poll alone has a high chance of errors, average a bunch of polls and factor in historical data and you can make very accurate predictions. Nate Silver and his crew over at 538 did that and predicted that Trump had about a 1 in 3 chance of winning. 538 also saw Trump's potential electoral college path to victory in the midwest swing states, Hillary's campaign and the DNC missed that trend and the rest is history. Would be interesting to do some regression analysis and see if employment was a factor, but given that the drop in unemployment was smaller than the increase in insured, it's unlikely that employment contributed to the entire change. As for Obamacare not being responsible, it's the major variable that changed during the period studied, and no other variable can account for the size of the change in insured percentage. As for Obamacare failing, depends how you define "failing". Overall, Obamacare is succeeding in most measures like insured rate. And while a few folks may have fallen through the cracks and are being gouged by the insurance companies, millions now have health care because of Obamacare. Sad to see you bashing the good folks (many veterans) who work for and run the VA, but the VA is a model of successfully providing health care while controlling costs. This is largely because unlike Medicare, the VA is allowed to negotiate for the best deals on drugs, DME, etc.. The VA's problems are largely due to surges in patient loads thanks to the Afghanistan and Iraq wars and the tendency of older vets to migrate to warm places like Florida and Arizona.

Sorry that things haven't worked out well for you.

Renowned pollster Gallup says otherwise: http://www.gallup.com/poll/208196/uninsured-rate-edges-slightly.aspx

The ACA is mostly a success, in that more americans than every have health insurance. But the ACA was unable to reel in the runaway inflation in health care costs. There are also a lot of folks who fell through the loopholes in the ACA like yourself. In fixing the ACA, to be successful we must close those loopholes so the insurance companies can't shift charges to folks that don't have the buying power of a group. Repealing the ACA and letting the insurance companies run health care will only make matters worse.

A higher percentage of Americans have health insurance thanks to Obamacare. The gap in Obamacare was for folks like you who weren't eligible for any subsidy, weren't part of any group, and live in a state that didn't create their own exchange.

More like so they can catch up with the kid's skills... The kids seem to have no problems with the metric system and electronic engine controls.

https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2016/12/16/update-1094-bias-related-incidents-month-following-election

Most of us become eligible for Medicare at age 65... Problem solved, no need to work 'til 70. Even for those under 65, most are getting their health care through work or government programs and are paying far less than the numbers you state.

I did a research paper on free tuition for the first 2 years of public college in Minnesota. Could be accomplished with little additional spending as our Minnesota State Colleges and Universities tuition is about the same $$$ as the Pell Grants. We're also giving free tuition to citizens over 60 at almost no cost on a space available basis, so filling a few more chairs in the classroom or adding more students online costs almost nothing.

Having passed college level stats courses, I guess I'm not allowed to be a progressive...

Well, yesterday I "schooled" a public radio reporter for a hit job she did on VW and the TDI scandal. She did not take it well and now refuses to talk with me. So I suspect that as a "lefty" I'm as much a total failure as I am as a "righty". Says something about how polarized our politics has become...

Agreed- And why not take advantage of a cabover like the MH by specializing in urban trucking where it's maneuverability will be an advantage or adding a drom so you can haul more freight in the states that allow it? Or stretch the wheelbase and specialize in hauling long permit loads?

They don't call them vocational schools, now they're technical colleges... That's the colleges Bernie was talking about.

Sorry Rowdy, you're so deeply into far right propaganda that you can't see facts anymore. I've seen much more hate speech targeting Obama than Trump, and I despise hate speech no matter who the target. And look at the arsenals of useless for hunting weapons that the right is accumulating, and the poor shadow of same that the "AntiFa" is amassing. Fact is, both sides need to tone down the hate speech and get back to debating issues, and that especially applies to the right. As a moderate who tries to find solutions instead of blindly grabbing and defending the most extreme positions of the left or right, I seriously fear for the future of or democracy.

Far more violent attacks seem to be coming from the right- look at the attack on Muslim women in Portland, Oregon last week that claimed 3 lives.