Banter TRTT Part 14: 2022 Goodbye (To 2023)

[edgie]

Not to sound like a w@nker.... but I know I do. I drive a a Merc AMG to Whyalla once a year. At times I go 150kms. It's a boring as * drive. I have a sore back at the end of it. Imagine driving a truck...every day.... at 100kms.... for 12 hours a day...every day... those guys deserve a medal.

Yeah

But at 75 years old?

What's wrong with the system where someone who is nearly ready for yearly license testing is still working that job?

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[sobrave]

I agree, all true.

I'm just a bit shocked that someone is working ten years past retirement age driving a semi trailer, at an age where we start to distrust people from driving so much as a Hyundai Getz.



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Ol mate sleepy Joe is driving the United states and is another decade older

 

[Cuzz09]

Why isn't online poker for real money aloud in Australia... Dam pollies... Mind ya ******* business.

it used to annoy me that South Australia missed out on a lot of the sports betting type apps (they'd always say *excludes SA)

Same with ALDI not selling booze here

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[Festerz]

Yeah

But at 75 years old?

What's wrong with the system where someone who is nearly ready for yearly license testing is still working that job?

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A lot of the owner drivers have to take on huge loans to buy their prime movers and re-mortgaging their house to upgrade. Think that might be the financial incentive for long haul drivers to stay in the game much longer than they should.

Barring a medical incident there is zero reason for the truckie to have not have seen the level crossing:

And warning lights are activated as a train approaches well in advance of a driver reaching the crossing:





Major Crash investigators have now charged the 75 year old Queensland truck driver with two counts of causing death by dangerous driving. He did not apply for bail and will appear in the Port Pirie Magistrates Court tomorrow.

 

[240volt]

I agree, all true.

I'm just a bit shocked that someone is working ten years past retirement age driving a semi trailer, at an age where we start to distrust people from driving so much as a Hyundai Getz.



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Government have pushed up retirement age over the years to get the pension.
Old days everyone retired at 65, now if you was born around 1958 you can’t get pension till 67? and for young people today that will be at least 70 if not more for them.
Economically people are being forced to stay in the workforce longer especially if they are renting.
Your right tho, 75 is past driving trucks especially now when drivers are on a more strict timetable.

 

[240volt]

it used to annoy me that South Australia missed out on a lot of the sports betting type apps (they'd always say *excludes SA)

Same with ALDI not selling booze here

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Aldi sell booze in Perth, you get these beers and wines you have never heard of that are cheap but like everything you get what you pay for.

 

[Grave Danger]

Aldi sell booze in Perth, you get these beers and wines you have never heard of that are cheap but like everything you get what you pay for.

No pokies in WA though, except at the casino. Which is a good thing.

 

[240volt]

No pokies in WA though, except at the casino. Which is a good thing.

I’m not sure what the pokies are like now in SA, remember the old days when bus loads of pensioners used to travel to Broken hill to lose there money.
When they started in SA a lot of pubs who used to close early started to make money and employ more people.
I’m a bit 50/50 with them, I don’t like them myself and see them as a trap for people but like the saying goes a fool and there money will always part.

 

[Grave Danger]

I’m not sure what the pokies are like now in SA, remember the old days when bus loads of pensioners used to travel to Broken hill to lose there money.
When they started in SA a lot of pubs who used to close early started to make money and employ more people.
I’m a bit 50/50 with them, I don’t like them myself and see them as a trap for people but like the saying goes a fool and there money will always part.

I don't know what it's like with the various forms of racing, but WA wins way more lotto prizes than its proportion of the national population, so that seems to be the gambler's choice here. Which is good for the charities the Lotteries Commission funds

 

[JimmyBC]

What a pathetically controllable species.. Fireworks! WOOHOO!

 

[Butters and Pepper]

I’m not sure what the pokies are like now in SA, remember the old days when bus loads of pensioners used to travel to Broken hill to lose there money.
When they started in SA a lot of pubs who used to close early started to make money and employ more people.
I’m a bit 50/50 with them, I don’t like them myself and see them as a trap for people but like the saying goes a fool and there money will always part.

When I was a kid in the 80s, I recall Wentworth NSW was popular with South Australians as a destination for pokies.

 

[JimmyBC]

Japan issues tsunami alert after magnitude 7.5 quake

 

[edgie]

Japan issues tsunami alert after magnitude 7.5 quake

She'll be right

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[JimmyBC]

She'll be right

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They'll work it out

 

[Cuzz09]

When did we last have anything as big as a 7.5 earthquake in SA?

Bloody always missing out

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[JimmyBC]

When did we last have anything as big as a 7.5 earthquake in SA?

Bloody always missing out

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Adelaide's sleeping fault line will fukc s**t up big time one day.

 

[dirty2]

Adelaide's sleeping fault line will fukc s**t up big time one day.

In about 250million years

 

[Burningleviathan]

Hopefully not as terrible a result as the last tsunami in Japan. Must be terrible knowing something is about to hit and nothing you can do about it.

 

[Cuzz09]

what was the earthquake then?

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[edgie]

In about 250million years

Hopefully it'll take the constantly reanimated version of Ken Hinkley with it

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[afl2004]

 

[afl2004]

 

[JimmyBC]

In about 250million years

Like the sleeping super volcano in yellowstone.. no one really knows when

 

[Duck Farmer]

They'll work it out

They build their wank sheds to much more stringent codes over there. They'll be fine.

 

[edgie]

They build their wank sheds to much more stringent codes over there. They'll be fine.

Not really.

The backup generators to Fukashima were in the basement. The first place to go under in a flood, or tsunami. That's why the place nearly had a meltdown.

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