atec77 blathered on in atec77:

Yup - it just gets better and better...
The problem is of course and as always political.
We have basically three "road" authorities.
Federal GovCo, State GovCo andlocal GovCo.
Each is busy as hell trying to make the other's roads carry as much
traffic as possible.
We get local louts closing off roads for advantage taking arseholes who
buy humpies on heavily trafficed 'burb roads, do them up much after the
fashion of the car 'back-yarders' now almost legislated into oblivion,
bleat about traffic and have the roads closed off thereby increasing
the falue of their 'investment'.

then we get the State shitheads on the make for Federal funds for the
roads they control - an dbusy as hell ensuring traffic is diverted off
them as much as possible.
And the Federal freaks doling out the Taxation money for the bigger
projects, often on a buck for buck basis with the shitheads.

What this means of course if massive congestion at peaks, and fucken
no-where to go to get round the inevitable prangs.
Plus, and this is a big one, massive increases in cost for anyone
stupid enough to try to make a living delivering stuff to almost
anywhere.

But there's a new wheeze in town.
This involves the construction of stuff and the inevitable delays it
causes because the louts , shitheads and freaks block roads without so
much as a seconds thought for the users of those roads.
It's about 'ownership', 'control' and privilege.
Simple example.
We've now lost Albert Street, City completely as a through road, the
most recent lout/shithead scheme involved a LIE about closing off
Albert Street temporarily.
it always was a permanent closure, and has resulted in horrific
problems for traffic attempting to access the south central part of the
city since there's simply no reasonable access to that area from the
Southside.
Marvellous.
The imbeciles built a "mall" on the only city street that had a river
crossing bridge.
We have massive disruption due construction in the City - and we ALL
know that the louts, shitheads deliberately block off lanes and
sometimes whole streets during this process, all the while shrieking
about lack of open space in city planning.
Fucken amazing.
Naturally if a building construction used off street access, then that
space would indeed be open space after the construction ended. Duh...

Anyhow - I digress..
The various GovCo's are at it again. They're saying they won't funnel
traffic into the Toll Bridge/Tunnels being built. Asode from the fact
that that is a LIE - again, there are other ways to scam the public
into thinking massive toll road and bridge work is necessary.
Well, we've seen that this is already the subject of a scumbag
work-around.
The Trick is done with traffic light intervals, of course.
This can effectively create a traffic jam where none should occur.
And it's being done, right now to Brisbanes Grey Street Bridge traffic.
Effectively a traffic jam on a continuing basis has been built in Grey
Street, peel street, Countess Stret, and sundry other access rods by
the simple expedient of pissing about with light intervals creatively.
The only winners are the Coronation Drive travellers who specifically
want to go to South Brisbane and West end.

A little work on wereis.com.au will reveal all.
In fact it's quicker to use Coro Drive ,  the Grey St bridge and
Merivale Streets to get to Wooloongabba and points East and South  -
which actually proves the point of the lights boondoggle...

That's all..

For now:-)

It is but my guess is Ford did this because they no longer make heavy
trucks and didn't want to put their name on another brand of truck.
It could also be an effort to cut cost but I don't see how they would
save much by using subbies.

Daryl

I remember when they first added 4 B doubles to their fleet the drivers were
excited about pulling the extra trailers for an additional 50 cents an hour
until they discovered that 11 of them would be getting the sack :)

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Regards,
Noddy.

They now are plain white cab over prime movers with plain blue trailers.
I saw some of the old Ford trailers in a yard for sale not that long
ago, they must have done many millions of klms so most likely they are
well and truly f.cked which is probably one of the reasons they got rid
of them, it would of cost Ford millions to replace them all with new
gear which is as good enough reason to sub contract.

Daryl