This may sound mad but could you not get a Canadian licence?
I,m talking through the top of my hat here, but maybe its worth looking into? :wink:

 

No, have to be a Canadian resident and besides, NY state, Ontario and Quebec grass up all the drivers from each state to each other.

 

It used to be great but over the last 10 years with the expansion of the European Union and the poorer eastern block ex commie countries joining there has been a flood of eastern European drivers taking long haul European jobs for less than half what we were getting paid. Couple that with the fact that their driver training is best described as pathetic you can imagine how bad it is. All the companies that used to pay top dollar for "continental" drivers now pay peanuts because they get eastern block monkeys driving for them.

 

Theres always one that when you say "no lectures" still finds it neccessary to lecture. I was not justifying the speed but gave the circumstances because I dont make it a habit of going that fast. I was on a clear bone dry desolate highway at 2 am and the only other car in the vicinity was a trooper hiding in the median.

If you have never ever, not even once, gone so much as 1MPH over the speed limit then your comments carry weight but if, as I suspect, you have been guilty of travelling over the posted speed limit ( as we ALL have) you are being a hypocrite. Before you throw rocks maybe you should check if your own house is made of glass.

I posted this thread in the hope that some people might understand that we ALL get caught up in the moment and have the occasional brain fart, I didnt want or ask for a "holier than thou" reply.

As for 93MPH being the type of speed that kills.....I would wager that as many people are killed at or below the legal speed limit on the roads in this country due to piss poor driving standards of car drivers.

 

Not to argue, but there's a *HUGE* difference between 1mph over and 28mph over.

Hmm - 15mph school zone + 28mph = 43mph, compared to 15mph school zone + 1mph = 16mph

It doesn't matter if the road was bone dry and desolate @ 2am or not. What would've happened if you'd hit a piece of debris on the road? Or how about a deer running in front of you? Or blowing a tire? and the list could go on forever.

Ya, even at 65 those things could happen, but the chances of you (or anyone else) walking away would be much higher at 65.

And, no, I'm not saying I don't speed. When I do go over the limit, it's not by almost 30mph over the limit. The one time I did run that far over the speed limit, I had a police esort in front and behind me with lights going. No, they weren't trying to stop me, it was a true emergency and I had to get down the highway fast.

 

Are you saying Igor and Dmitry from Hungarocamion cannot reverse?
Too bloody right what you,re saying mate.
Just been talking to my mate who drives for Blair International(Yeah some of my best mates are Paddies) and he,s just parked up for the night in Caen. He says you can,t get moved for bloody Willi Betz waggons and so on.
Its becoming a frigging joke aint it?
You know one of my old gaffers(when I did Groupage) lost a contract because those bastards will take a load to Milan for £700!!
It costs more in fuel and wages for a Brit to get there. How the hell can we compete?
And all this E.E.C bollocks is supposed to be promoting "fair trade"
They,re having a frigging laugh at our expense and that arsehole Blair is too soft to stop em!
Anyway, have a good un pal :wink:

 

No, I DON'T think you do...........nice try though. :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

Hey, Josh!!

Glad to see you back on the board, hope that you are feeling better!!

I was prepared to reply to Rushman's rather lame and moronic reply to me, but in the end, I figured "Why bother?"

Thank God that with that ticket on his record, no company will hire him. I'm kind of busy, so I just don't have time to humor some idiot who gets caught doing 93 in a 65, and then tries to marginalize his actions, and find fault with those who dare say "2BAD4U!!"

 

Thats obvious!!

 

All you can do is make your calls and see what turns up... the speeding ticket is gonna hurt ya for awhile. You'll have to learn to accept the holier-than-thou attitudes on the boards, though. This is how it is, and has been. Thick skin required. And it doesn't pay to get into the pissing matches- they go nowhere. BOL