What is some of your Pet Peeve's

   / What is some of your Pet Peeve's #1,151  
Yeah, with two lanes available and a 24-something foot trailer, even Ray Charles could probably pull it off.

It's the small single lane roundabouts that can be an issue with longer vehicle combinations. And doubles are much better than a single long trailer in those situations.
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   / What is some of your Pet Peeve's #1,152  
Yeah, with two lanes available and a 24-something foot trailer, even Ray Charles could probably pull it off.

It's the small single lane roundabouts that can be an issue with longer vehicle combinations. And doubles are much better than a single long trailer in those situations.View attachment 877931
That's an interesting looking rig. I would guess the front trailer is some kind of workshop, and the rear trailer has material needed for the next job. Never saw a short stepdeck trailer like that with a beaver tail.
 
   / What is some of your Pet Peeve's #1,153  
That first trailer is a basic dry van that I modified into a toy hauler (once 18 inches were taken off the top) with room for the Jeep in the back.
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The second trailer was also a dry van, that I bought to take the air suspension off of, but it turned out to be built on a flatbed so I modified it a bit.

Shortened two feet (for overall length reasons), lowered big time (partially by going with 22.5s), made it a step deck and added a dove tail.

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After:
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   / What is some of your Pet Peeve's #1,154  
Got rudely reminded of this scenario last night.

Try to watch the local news (weather) before calling it a day, but once again, even with sacrificial programming serving as a 1-hour buffer after a sports event, the news were delayed.

How hard can it be to keep a televised sports event within its allotted time?? Okay, maybe that could be tricky, but do they really need to then spend an extra 20-30 minutes afterwards to discuss what they just saw?

By the way, in case you haven't already guessed it, I could not care less about sports.
 
   / What is some of your Pet Peeve's #1,155  
By the way, in case you haven't already guessed it, I could not care less about sports
I feel the same way. The time was when radio broadcasts of sports were relegated to AM stations but that's changed; nearly every night the local FM station has a Red Sox game on. Not only do I not care about sports; I especially don't care to listen to a game when it's almost a given they are going to lose, as was the case last year. During football season several of the stations I prefer are covering that... I'd rather listen to a golf game or ping pong tournament.
 
   / What is some of your Pet Peeve's #1,159  
Block or report as spam.
Have reported many that just keep coming. Some from companies I don't want to block in case they have something legitimate to communicate or I want to buy from them again where having their email blocked would block sales receipts and tracking info. Not the solution, they just need to honor the unsubscribe option.
It's working like the old do not call option. :rolleyes:
 
   / What is some of your Pet Peeve's #1,160  
I feel the same way. The time was when radio broadcasts of sports were relegated to AM stations but that's changed; nearly every night the local FM station has a Red Sox game on. Not only do I not care about sports; I especially don't care to listen to a game when it's almost a given they are going to lose, as was the case last year. During football season several of the stations I prefer are covering that... I'd rather listen to a golf game or ping pong tournament.
What's worse are the pre-and post-game shows. Dunno about other teams, but the New England Patriots network has a 3 hour pregame show, and a 3 hour postgame show, either one of which is longer than the actual game!

Like you, I have zero interest in sports, but you'd think that 6 hours of jabber would be more than even the most diehard fan could take.
 

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