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Language barrier kept truck driver from understanding warnings before hitting bridge....
Post Standard, Syracuse NY ^
| March 05, 2014 at 3:45 AM
| By Ken Sturtz | ksturtz@syracuse.com
Posted on 03/05/2014 7:46:41 AM PST by Behind Liberal Lines
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To: elpadre
and just how did he pass a drivers licenses exam - private or commercial?? are tests given in Mandarin now?? In California they bend over assbackward to accomodate every language but english!
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posted on
03/05/2014 8:41:54 AM PST
by
Mastador1
(I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
To: Jack Hydrazine
That cracks me up whenever I see it.
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posted on
03/05/2014 8:44:00 AM PST
by
Cyber Liberty
(H.L. Mencken: "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.")
To: edcoil
“Yes, in CA you can request tests in multiple languages.”
It must really be fun to take a test written in multiple languages!
To: Vigilanteman
Ever been inside of a California DMV? I've been in third world airports and railroad terminals which are far better organized. The last four or five times I've had dealings with the California DMV, they were models of efficiency. In, see only the people I needed to see, got what I needed done quickly and accurately, and out.
I was astonished, each time.
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posted on
03/05/2014 8:50:14 AM PST
by
null and void
(<--- unwilling cattle-car passenger on the bullet train to serfdom)
To: null and void
The last time I was there was in the 1990s. Are you talking rural California or has something drastically changed?
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posted on
03/05/2014 8:56:02 AM PST
by
Vigilanteman
(Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
To: Behind Liberal Lines
Hate to admit it but I crossed the same bridge three times when returning from Quebec City to Montreal. Dang signs were in F’n French!
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posted on
03/05/2014 9:00:36 AM PST
by
wetgundog
(" Extremism in the Defense of Liberty is no Vice")
To: Vigilanteman
Urban, city of 800,000+, in an area of some 7,000,000, two different offices. Something has drastically changed.
OTOH, nothing normal ever happens to me...
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posted on
03/05/2014 9:03:48 AM PST
by
null and void
(<--- unwilling cattle-car passenger on the bullet train to serfdom)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
I worked in an office on the first floor in that building (Brightleaf Square) right next to that trestle in Durham We were actually between the trestle and the camera in the shots from the right side of the road. Atleast twice a week. The drivers were usually hispanics. Not all... but a solid majority. We had to park in a lot on the other side of the tracks and walk along the road under that trestle to get to the office. I was on the side walk under the trestle on one occasion when a truck hit. That will wake you up in the morning! Holy CRAP! After a period of time, they erected an I-beam structure out in front of it to minimize the wear and tear on the old trestle and added more warnings and flashing lights. As God as my witness, within an hour after they painted the I-beam with black and yellow stripes and closed the lid on the paint cans...
WHAM!And so it continued. But at the very least, they were no longer hitting the train trestle :-)
Also used to watch the local tree-cutters from Asplundt pull up every morning. One guy would jump out of the first truck and guide each of the 5 or 6 trucks under the trestle as far to the right as possible. After the last truck cleared by a matter of an inch or less, he would hop in the last truck and off to work they went.
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posted on
03/05/2014 9:07:05 AM PST
by
Hatteras
To: Jack Hydrazine
The hay-bale trucks got off easiest.
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posted on
03/05/2014 9:09:02 AM PST
by
Dagnabitt
(Amnesty is Treason. Its agents are Traitors.)
To: headstamp 2
Zhang, 40, of San Jose, Calif.
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posted on
03/05/2014 9:15:00 AM PST
by
Vaduz
To: Behind Liberal Lines
That bridge has some English speakers tear the roof off of their trucks too....
To: E. Pluribus Unum
The bridge clearance I believe in Syracuse is 10’9”...
That is low.. in any language.. unless you play basketball.. that extra nine inches would be tougher to dunk on..
To: Behind Liberal Lines
If his drivers license is a CDL then he is required to know English & if he doesn’t the folks that issued the license can get a load of trouble as well as the driver .
To: Behind Liberal Lines
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posted on
03/05/2014 1:30:53 PM PST
by
JRios1968
(I'm guttery and trashy, with a hint of lemon. - Laz)
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