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You'd be surprised how common this is.

Family member of a friend *was* a truck driving instructor for a large operator.

Apparently most trainees last about 2 weeks and most trainers last about 4 months. (And they aren't eligible for training with this company until *after* they have their CDL--which means 4 weeks of training, thousands of dollars, drug and background tests in Illinois.*) He made it almost a year got canned after telling a trainee to quit because he was complaining so much during the training runs. The six accidents his trainees had apparently was considered normal.

*(Illinois passed a series of laws making getting a CDL very expensive and difficult after a former governor was convicted of driver's licenses--he was Secretary of State at the time--to raise money for his campaign. And this is the guy before Blago.)

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this wouldnt happen to be in a bay north of everett wa
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That guy must be gay. ^^^

Look in the bottom corner. It's a cool ad for a lens.

I was in a camera shop once and someone was buying some sort of a "spy" lens. It looked like a regular camera telephoto lens, but had a mirror inside to take photos of whatever you were standing next to or above if you angled it down. I don't recall the rest of the details, but it's lulzy.



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Old 12-09-2010, 05:02 PM
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And noticeably lacking in tats.
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this wouldnt happen to be in a bay north of everett wa
Yep, follow the link provided..................many more cool pictures were posted.

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These are some pictures I've taken in Everett WA while out kayaking. Everett is at the mouth of the Snohomish river and is a logging and shipping town past it's prime.

This old fishing boat was stuck out behind a piling and left to decay. The receding tide caused her back to break under her own weight.

This is a cool link too - posted in same thread.:
Staten Island ship graveyard - Virtual Globetrotting
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