I have been trying out various low clearance avoidance tools after
witnessing a horrible accident and having a close call myself.
Obviously I look out for the signs ahead, but not all bridges are
posted and it's no good for planning a route anyway.

It looks good on their website.  Any experience with it ?  Thanks.

THE END OF TRICARE FOR LIFE FOR MILITARY
Tom Marfiak
Rear Admiral USN Ret.
Sent: Friday, July 24, 2009

A California biker (on a vehicle weighing maybe 300 pounds), upset with
another vehicle, pulls in front and slams on his brakes. The other vehicle
was an RV (weighing maybe 6,000) pounds.
http://www.fox5sandiego.com/news/kswb-biker-rage,0,6272692.story

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What do you people think of those playing this game in campgrounds with it's
Chinese-water-torture like "womp womp womp" noise?  Have you ever been
wakened early in the early morning by people playing this game?  Or kept
awake at night with the irritating womp sounds?  What do ...

Success Threatens to Sink 'Cash for Clunkers' Program
The future of the popular program is up in the air as the Transportation
Department worries it quickly will run out of the allotted $1 billion
These yo-yo's want to run the health care of the whole United States and

But to the truth of this massive 1,107 page new series of US laws,
it is to the “other purposes” that should chill these American people to
their very core as these “other purposes” include:
    All American citizens being ordered to have a National ID Card

How would you like to see this sign at the beginning of your trip ?
(that's 5,965 miles)
http://www.funpic.hu/en.picview.php?id=36557&c=-1&s=dd&p=1

I went of the official website and typed in my vehicle. (ford aerostar van,
4.0 liter V-6 auto)
It said it could be clunkered because the gas mileage was a combined 17mpg.
They are sooooo stupid. I get an actual 27mpg on the interstate and about

I have an Expedition with the load leveling system. I just started
towing a 5000 lb. trailer and use a equalizing hitch.
Problem is that after pulling the trailer and trying to unhitch it,
the Expedition has raised the rear up so high that it's almost

This is on topic because most of us here are seniors.
Listen to what Obama's advisors are suggesting.
Actual quotes, not someone's opinion.
http://tinyurl.com/lxymlk

I have recently had a few close calls with low bridges that could
easily have resulted in a bad accident.
Does anyone know of a good GPS system or add on for my Garmin that
would give a low bridge warning?

This guy was on C-span Books today. Fascinating concept, It is Semi
Fiction. EMP is real, the story is fiction, set 1 second after a
nuclear device sends out an electro-magnetic pulse....and the world
goes  quiet...

I have my Fantastic Fan mounted right above my rear bed and its a bit
too  noisy for my liking when im sleeping ..even on low speed.  With
the F.F. operating on 12 vdc,  can i still add a Rheostat to in the
low speed wire  to slow the fan speed down even more ?   Any tips