Large Format Vehicles, Moving Violations, and How To Survive Them
The Interstate Highways are polka-dotted with large format vehicles like busses, motor homes (RV’s), dump-trucks, semi-trucks, etcetera
Category: Transportation
Ohisashiburi Desu Ne!
I’ve missed that sustained discourse and offer the following unsolicited thoughts on random things as junk brought back from the wasteland
Alaska Airlines Is Shown the Door
Airline flying is statistically safer than the drive to the airport, but if things go sideways, it can happen quickly.
Twelve Minutes in Tokyo
Despite the fire and deaths in Japan, commercial aviation is still extremely safe. That doesn’t mean that it is risk-free, however.
That Time I Drove a Tesla for a Week
So it was that when I had to go to Dallas for a week of training recently that I decided to rent a Tesla and see how the other half lived.
A Near-Disaster At Houston-Hobby
It’s difficult to say where we go from here, but not taking off without a clearance is a pretty basic aviation skill.
Falling Rocks Break Everything
Covid didn’t stop us, but a closed bridge will. The other kids on this side of the border are withdrawing from the school entirely for the semester.
A Swing and a Bunch of Near Misses
There is a saying in the aviation industry that the Federal Aviation Regulations are written in blood. Many of our rules are based on behaviors or accidents that have killed people in the past.
Airshows and Americana
Airshows have been an American tradition since we pioneered powered flight in 1903; the experience is peak Americana and says a great deal about the American cultural identity.
The Nationwide Ground Stop Explained
A ground stop is just what it sounds like. ATC holds aircraft, particularly flights on instrument flight plans, on the ground rather than letting them take off.
SMART-TD Union Rejects Deal, Rail Strike Looming Closer
Remember that victory lap the Biden Administration took back in the fall for brokering a deal to avert a rail strike? Welp….
The Intersection of Midsize Sedan and Crossover SUV
What we found as we were pondering all of this is that we didn’t especially like the overlapping midsized sedan/crossover SUV consumer space
Speed Gripping
The devil is in the details for something like this, though at baseline I prefer something like this to speeding cameras.
On Flying Cars and Why We Still Aren’t The Jetsons
The first questions to ask of these startups “is this removing barriers or adding them to get to the stated goal?” Flying cars fail that test on every level.
Washington, DC Metro Has To Pull Half Of Fleet For Safety Issues
It’s going to be a rough Monday on the Washington, DC area Metro as the troubled mass transit service is forced to pull half their cars offline for safety issues.
OT Contributor Podcast: Dennis Sanders En Route Podcast on Interstate Highway System
The Latest En Route podcast from OT Contributor Dennis Sanders is all about the Interstate Highway System with guest Rob Sanders
The Vehicle Miles Traveled Tax Would be a Tax from Hell
The Vehicle Miles Traveled Tax concept seems designed to alienate virtually every side of the political spectrum. So how would it work?
The American Jobs Plan Infrastructure Plan: Read It For Yourself
President Biden announced his expected infrastructure plan, dubbed The American Jobs Plan, and the White House has released a fact sheet of what they want in the coming legislation.
Vehicle Miles-Traveled (VMT) Tax
With a massive infrastructure bill looming talk of replacing the gas tax with a Vehicle Miles-traveled, or VMT Tax, is coming into vogue.
Why Doesn’t the US Get to Have High Speed Rail?
If American cities could buy high speed rail systems at European costs, they very well might. But they can’t, so they don’t.
