I do not think this fellow should be permited to drive Nono No Nono!
Posted on 12/12/2006 5:41:12 PM PST by conservativecorner
A truck-driving student is in custody in Boston after raising suspicions when he wasn�t interested in learning how to back up his rig.
WLVI-TV (Ch. 56) reported last night that the would-be trucker is a 28-year-old Muslim from India and had overstayed his visa. An investigation is under way to see whether there is any connection between his unusual behavior and a terrorism plot. Federal authorities were alerted by instructors at the Nationwide Tractor Trailer Driving School in Smithfield, R.I., WLVI reported.
The student was described as a resident of New York, with driver�s licenses from New York, New Jersey and Rhode Island.
�Every indicator was there,� R.I. State Police Major Steve O�Donnell told WLVI. �Any one of these things alone is fine, but four or five together .
While a loaded semi-truck would make a fine weapon it’s hard for this ex-farm boy to understand that you’d need a lesson on how to drive it forward.
I wonder what will become of this story?
Someone better be beating this guy to a pulp until he talks.
He has rights you know
Geesh....whatever they do...DON'T put panties on his head!
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Terrorists are planning an attack using semi-trailer trucks. It's seems to be obvious from the various reports we've heard about Muslims getting Hazmat licenses, etc. Good luck to all.
These lower-level guys really are idiots! He admits he doesnt want to learn backing up, sheesh! Thank God our enemy isnt so bright.
Put him in a room with Nancy Pelosi and Hillary Clinton. All three can have a "love-in." Both witches, no doubt, feel his poor misunderstood pain!
"He has rights you know"
Oh, he sure does! But everybody else in America has rights, too.
It's a little too hoakey to me.
Maybe he just wanted to forward freight.
The day he stepped off the raft from Bombay he had overstayed his welcome. With any luck, he'll run into some real truckers who'll demonstrate that "road kill" is also a verb.
I do not think this fellow should be permited to drive Nono No Nono!
"But everybody else in America has rights, too."
Ah, but that is where you are wrong. Only the bad guys really have rights.
For this ex-truck driver, I've seen a lot of guys and gals who never took the backup lessons. Of course they didn't do too well going forward either.
heat him up first with a blow torch. he'll talk.
I went to truck driving school and drove tractor trailer for about a year. THE MOST DIFFICULT PART about driving tractor trailer is backing up. 90 percent of our driving time was spent learning how to back into every situation the instructors threw at us. Either this was some retard that didn't understand what the job is about, or he's a terrorist.
Put both hands at the bottom of the steering wheel. Look in your left side mirror and square what you see with what you see in your right side mirror.
Which ever way you want the ass end of the trailer to go, move your hands in that direction. With very little practice it's a piece of cake.
Any assistance appreicated.
Not when it comes to my survival and that of my family. (Understand your sarcasm).
Makes you wonder what substance the bad guys see themselves filling trucks with. Propane in a tunnel would be bad. A gasoline truck spilling its load on a packed road at rush hour would be bad as well
If they had any brains they wouldn't be muslims in the first place.
If you ever want to insult a truckdriver tell him he is a no backing cowboy.
Most drivers take pride in their ability to back up their rig. Any clown can drive it forward, over curbs ,and tear the sides off. A few can even tip them over on exit ramps. Not many can reverse their trailer so they can enter a narrow driveway.
I thought the new laws had done away with multiple driver's licenses, I dont know how this guy has 3.
Praise Allah for the super NAFTA highway!!!
Your directions work well when you have only one pivot point. How about "pups", or my favorite, backing an F-111 on a "long long" towbar with a 4-wheel drive, 4-wheel steering tug.
"I dont know how this guy has 3."
My guess would be that he and his buddies are very creative. Seems to me I've been through this kind of scenario before. With those 19 clowns before 9/11.
The thing is muslims are so backward anyway that he didn't NEED to learn that. Backwards is normal to them.
That was song from the 60s...
Backing up is hard to do.....
No wonder I am having trouble learning to back the boat trailer! I had my hands in the wrong place.
Thanks, BAR!
You were lucky. I had a father-in-law as an instructor and during those early marriage years, he was not yet sure he liked me. I can tell you, backing a 40,000 pound load of swinging meat up a shaky ramp onto a railroad piggyback flat car is no way to learn to back a truck. It will, however, remove any foolish youthful thoughts of immortality.
One story at a time.
Hear ya!
If they think they get 72 virgins for a successful mohammicidal attack, it stands to reason this is what they would get for an unsuccessful one!
Back when I was a “yut” (early sixties) and trying to learn how to drive a big rig, I had a seasoned driver that gave me the same advice … and it worked!. Thanks for the memories.
I selected not to pursue a career in long haul, but did enjoy my few years in that profession and to this day thank that driver for his guidance. I can, to this day, back any vehicle into any spot with little trouble.
They all aren't so dumb. Never underestimate the enemy.
I like your thinking. Perhaps the military could use the two witches at Gitmo to scare the terrorists into talking. It was enough to drive Bubba elsewhere.
This is nothing compared to the commercial truck driving school in our town. It was recently shut down after an FBI raid last February. Turns out about 500 men with middle eastern names (muslim) were sent here from the MBS Truck Driving School (Muslim Brothers and Sisters) in Kansas City to take their driving tests. The director and his assistant are under federal indictment for mail fraud in this case. Apparently, some documents were falsified saying the men, mostly Somalis, passed the test. By the way, the director was the Democrat candidate for state representative in November. I am not making this up!!!
Tough job isn't it? From my experience (also 1960s) I too decided against a trucking career. However, I still admire those guys out on the Interstate in the really big rigs. They have picked a really rough, but admirable, row to hoe.
500??? good god!
It would send up a red flag to me. Sounds too much like not being interested in landing the plane.
LOL.
I vividly picture things far too easily.
I guess I had one although I can't recall that particular certification (ca 1960s). I never ran over an aircraft although I did have a few almost run over me. LOL!
I got lucky, I fell into by pure accident a job with a garbage company after a year driving flatbeds. Then 5 years later a buddy in my national guard unit told me about an opening at a county public works department.
Having that truck school certificate has kept me from ever being unemployed, but driving over the road is no picnic. If I ever get laid off at the county, I'd crawl over broken glass to get back on with a garbage company. My last choice would be going back over the road.
Back in the day, I was in Djibouti. We were supposed to take the Embassy Escape and Evasion out for a test run. My buddy told me to drive, and he'd guide me so I could back the trailer down the ramp. I just couldn't do it. Finally, a French Officer jumped on the running board of the Toyota Land Cruiser and asked if this was my first time. I said yes, and he said "you can't do it on your first time. Move over." So I did, and he backed it down the ramp. To this day, I cannot trailer my boat, and that's why I keep it at a marina. Oh, yeah. The HOA said no trailers in the development, too.
I suppose one can easily imagine the load shifting in the van and the wild look in my then young eyes as the load moved up the ramp. Unfortunately I cannot adequately describe the critical look on my father-in-law's weathered west Texas face as he stood folded arm off to the side. I also moved houses with him for a couple of summers. Now that was even more fun.
I can't believe there is someone else out there who saw this movie and actually remembers it!
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