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(MSN News) Dumbass Truckers: those long road trips can often be boring, so why not watch a little TV to help pass the time?   (news.ca.msn.com) divider line 43
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liverleef
2011-11-25 08:05:41 PM
I was driving through ohio a while back and could see a trucker watching hard core porn while he drove.
 
miss diminutive
2011-11-25 08:32:15 PM
liverleef: I was driving through ohio a while back and could see a trucker watching hard core porn while he drove.

Does anyone even watch soft core porn any more?
 
farkingismybusiness
2011-11-25 08:40:43 PM
liverleef: I was driving through ohio a while back and could see a trucker watching hard core porn while he drove.

What else are you gonna do while tweeked out on meth?
 
Dead for Tax Reasons [TotalFark]
2011-11-25 09:23:11 PM
You down with opp?

Is 'watching a little tv' new slang for taking meth?
 
styckx [TotalFark]
2011-11-25 09:38:47 PM
How is this news? There are in dash radios with DVD players, TV Tuners and have been for ages... This is nothing new..
 
Revek [TotalFark]
2011-11-25 09:39:17 PM
miss diminutive: liverleef: I was driving through ohio a while back and could see a trucker watching hard core porn while he drove.

Does anyone even watch soft core porn any more?

No, soft core porn is only on tits and ass after 10 aka cinemax.
 
Christian Bale
2011-11-25 09:40:12 PM
An OPP officer located the vehicle,


That's naughty.
 
182 [TotalFark]
2011-11-25 09:41:58 PM
so you can get a blowjob while driving but not watch tv or use a handheld phone?
 
Gyrfalcon [TotalFark]
2011-11-25 09:43:08 PM
I figured they already had been.
 
JohnAnnArbor
2011-11-25 09:47:28 PM
I remember reading years ago that driving-simulator tests said reading while driving, with the reading material projected as a windshield overlay, was actually less distracting than talking on a cell phone while driving.

/No, they weren't about to suggest putting readers in every car.
 
daffy
2011-11-25 09:47:54 PM
What's wrong with watching TV while driving? I love driving behind people with a DVD player going in the back seat and watching it.
 
picodenico
2011-11-25 09:49:16 PM
JohnAnnArbor: I remember reading years ago that driving-simulator tests said reading while driving, with the reading material projected as a windshield overlay, was actually less distracting than talking on a cell phone while driving.

I'm already freaked out enough by projected speed on windshields.
 
JackalRabbit
2011-11-25 09:52:19 PM
182: so you can get a blowjob while driving but not watch tv or use a handheld phone?

God Bless America.
 
rdray1976
2011-11-25 09:53:44 PM
...came for the "Down with OPP" reference...

...leaving satisfied. :)
 
friedlinx
2011-11-25 09:58:33 PM
I used to crawl back into the sleeper and take a 10 - 15 minute nap while driving, but watching TV, that's just crazy
 
illannoyin
2011-11-25 09:58:54 PM
Yeah, you know me.
 
KrispyKritter
2011-11-25 10:09:26 PM
JackalRabbit: 182: so you can get a blowjob while driving but not watch tv or use a handheld phone?

God Bless America.

ha!
 
TedNigma
2011-11-25 10:24:20 PM
See, in Canada, we'll nark you off. HOWEVER!!! There is a HUD video system that overlays over the windshield. The 'focus' point is a mile in front of your vehicle. Looking at the dash? Out of focus. actually, it disappears from your peripheral also. Focusing on a car .9 miles ahead of you? again, you have to focus your vision at 1 mile before it's visible.


Military jet pilots have been using this overlay system for decades.
 
sherylgi
2011-11-25 10:27:12 PM
friedlinx: I used to crawl back into the sleeper and take a 10 - 15 minute nap while driving, but watching TV, that's just crazy

Nice.
 
Nick Nostril
2011-11-25 10:38:06 PM
And yet, every day I drive the highway and see morons in cars who camp out in the lane next to these behemoths. Half of these guys haven't slept in 36 hours, the other half are on booze, pills, weed, meth, crack, crank, smack, pcp, and/or jenkum.

/worked with truckers in a summer job while in college
//they advised me to stay the fark away from them on the road
 
rudemix
2011-11-25 10:47:28 PM
I've had cruise control on, stood and held the wheel with left hand and dug around a storage compartment on a Freightliner Columbia. But watch a movie? Hell no!
 
rhiannon [TotalFark]
2011-11-25 10:56:10 PM
TedNigma: See, in Canada, we'll nark you off. HOWEVER!!! There is a HUD video system that overlays over the windshield. The 'focus' point is a mile in front of your vehicle. Looking at the dash? Out of focus. actually, it disappears from your peripheral also. Focusing on a car .9 miles ahead of you? again, you have to focus your vision at 1 mile before it's visible.


Military jet pilots have been using this overlay system for decades.

Yeah but are they watching Top Gun?
 
OOBE Juan Kenobi
2011-11-25 11:15:02 PM
It's the way of the road, Bubs. The way of the road...

img402.imageshack.us
 
TeachingRoland [TotalFark]
2011-11-25 11:28:50 PM
Hello, Daniel
 
georgehwbush
2011-11-25 11:29:46 PM
I've done this.
 
SaberTooth08
2011-11-25 11:36:35 PM
Oh lighten up everyone, what with the Navitron Autodrive system truckers don't even need to watch the road!
 
moops
2011-11-25 11:52:54 PM
JackalRabbit: 182: so you can get a blowjob while driving but not watch tv or use a handheld phone?

God Bless America.

It happened in Canada
 
Driver
2011-11-26 12:07:37 AM
moops: JackalRabbit: 182: so you can get a blowjob while driving but not watch tv or use a handheld phone?

God Bless America.

It happened in Canada

God Bless North America
 
belhade
2011-11-26 12:21:12 AM
Hell, you could load up a movie on your ipod and put it on a dash/windshield mount and watch it.
 
Rabbitgod
2011-11-26 12:24:25 AM

As fark's resident truck driver I would like to plug Graphic Audio (new window) as my personal choice of driving entertainment.

img12.imageshack.us


the whole set is 100+ hours long
 
Megaton Suntan
2011-11-26 01:07:52 AM
182: so you can get a blowjob while driving but not watch tv or use a handheld phone?

I think that might count as entertainment.

Hard to prove if the evidence gets swallowed
 
jst3p
2011-11-26 01:57:56 AM
belhade: Hell, you could load up a movie on your ipod and put it on a dash/windshield mount and watch it.

I regularly watch hulu plus on my daily commute.
 
Cloudchaser Sakonige the Red Wolf
2011-11-26 02:14:42 AM
When I clicked the link, I got a message asking me if I wanted to "upgrade" from Firefox to Internet Explorer 9. That's like asking someone if they want to "upgrade" from a Harley to a Roketa.
 
Mitochondrial Eve
2011-11-26 02:16:06 AM
TV is boring. Read a good book and improve your mind.
 
CrissX
2011-11-26 03:27:16 AM
Meh, I used to play a game when I was trucking. I would wait till a car started pacing me near my window and if there was a passenger that would look up at me, I would just stand up and walk back in the sleeper for a few secs and just giggle thinkin about the look on their face.

/no meth here
 
KarmaSpork [TotalFark]
2011-11-26 03:47:15 AM
As a trucker myself allow me to say two things:

1. Not the first time. Except last year it caused fatalities.

2. Yeah some truckers are bad and this guy was awful, but holy crap you little four wheelers scare the crap out of me every day. No blinker using, four lane changing, tailgating, no headlights having, non low beam using, non merging, swerving while texting and trimming the forest so you can see the tree kinda folks. And that's just the PG stuff.

/226952. The miles we ran last year alone were chock full of that and so, so much more.
 
JackalRabbit
2011-11-26 05:29:21 AM
moops:

God Bless the Americas

/know what tells me I didn't read the article?

Driver:

And God Bless you for making it just a little better.
 
lewismarktwo
2011-11-26 05:43:17 AM
Rabbitgod: As fark's resident truck driver I would like to plug Graphic Audio (new window) as my personal choice of driving entertainment.

[img12.imageshack.us image 600x600]

the whole set is 100+ hours long

What's your take on Audible?
 
Elephantman
2011-11-26 08:51:07 AM
Nick Nostril: And yet, every day I drive the highway and see morons in cars who camp out in the lane next to these behemoths. Half of these guys haven't slept in 36 hours, the other half are on booze, pills, weed, meth, crack, crank, smack, pcp, and/or jenkum.

/worked with truckers in a summer job while in college
//they advised me to stay the fark away from them on the road

No...you are wrong.
/ Trucker for 19 years
//randomly drug tested
///70's trucker movies are not representative of the industry
////I'd advise all 4 wheelers to stay away from me, it makes my job easier not to have these idiots around me
 
KarmaSpork [TotalFark]
2011-11-26 08:58:57 AM
lewismarktwo: Rabbitgod: As fark's resident truck driver I would like to plug Graphic Audio (new window) as my personal choice of driving entertainment.

[img12.imageshack.us image 600x600]

the whole set is 100+ hours long

What's your take on Audible?

It can be awesome, but the narrators vary widely from the truly spectacular to the snooze-a-riffic. Read the reviews. For the amount of entertainment you get it is quite a deal. We buy the credit packs and download to an ipod.
 
minuslars
2011-11-26 11:24:57 AM
I once saw a dude watching TV in his car while on the freeway in rush hour traffic. I mean come on, you can't stare at the road for the whole time you're commuting between home and work?
 
Mitochondrial Eve
2011-11-26 11:57:52 AM
...prop the book on your dashboard, and hope for the best. No Twilight, though. I've heard it's distracting.
 
wambu
2011-11-26 12:23:35 PM
Dead for Tax Reasons: You down with opp?

Is 'watching a little tv' new slang for taking meth?

Or getting a beej from a hooker?
 
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