You Know What Really Grinds My Gears? Now with 3x more gears...

[GGG]

Originally Posted by you&me

To me, it's funny if you look at which law seems generally more reasonable; passing on a (double) solid line or the speed limits.

Generally speaking, I think passing markers are in reasonable places and I rarely seem to encounter a place where I think "the double solid is stupid, I really should be able to pass here".

Whereas I routinely think speed limits are lower than they should be... therefore I routinely exceed them.

I'm with Sliver - I'm convinced that speed limits that were established 50 years ago when the average car did 0-60 in 15 seconds and took 400 feet to stop from 100km/h could use a reconsideration...

In that same time period human reaction time remained unchanged. Human perception of high speeds remained flawed, animals reaction times and behaviour also unchanged. So while the vehicle can stop faster, all of the other reasons people crash are still there.

Also road fatalities per km are down significantly over the past 70 years we could use some of this margin to increase speed.

[DownInFlames]

I just want to sleep.

[BlackArcher101]

Originally Posted by GGG

Why can’t this guy park his work truck in his driveway? He’s not doing anything illegal but he is breaking some kind of social contract in using the commons when he doesn’t have to.

I'm guessing it doesn't fit and hangs onto the sidewalk, which would then actually be illegal.

[GGG]

Originally Posted by BlackArcher101

I'm guessing it doesn't fit and hangs onto the sidewalk, which would then actually be illegal.

I’d be surprised if that was the case as it doesn’t seem longer than the full sized extended cabs that are everywhere on driveways in the city but you could be right.

[btimbit]

I have no issue with it being on the street, but park it in front of your own house

[bizaro86]

Originally Posted by timun

Technically any truck with a GVWR >4,500 kg (~10,000 lb) cannot be parked on a residential street overnight. That means anything bigger than a half-ton pickup...

If this is true (and I have no reason to doubt it) and the OPs truck is similar to the picture posted then I think the GVWR requirement isn't met. I think enough calls to parking would probably get them to come out.

As an alternative, you could talk to the guy and mention his vehicle is overweight for a residential street, and maybe he could park it on his driveway.

I agree the roads are for everyone, but if there's a spot by your house and you park your work truck somewhere else then YATA.

[djsFlames]

Being behind someone on a turn ramp who is merging onto a busy major road going 10-15 km under the limit. Firstly, they're going to struggle to merge. And in turn they're going to make it doubly hard for you to merge also.

1000x easier to get in if you get yourself up to the same speed as the traffic on that road. Instead you turn us both into massive hazards for people who can't merge left to make space for us.

[Barnet Flame]

Originally Posted by Sliver

Definitely a reasonable gear grinder. Do you have a couple cars at your house you could park there nicely spaced to block him?

This.

[Barnet Flame]

Originally Posted by Sliver

OMFG, we were just talking about this somewhere on here a couple weeks ago, but sure as #### I was driving home from Invermere yesterday and some dope of the highest order was doing, like, 89 km/h. To let people pass, this fataing idiot drove in the shoulder and expected people to pass him even though the yellow line was solid. Like, stay in your GD lane you fataing r-tard. And of course he shot a rock at my windshield (just shy of $1k to replace it in my car, or so I've been quoted). I wanted to kill this fataing moron. Kept my cool of course because I'm not a psycho and my son was with me so had to do the 'ole, these things happen and there's no point in getting upset but I couldn't shake my murderous rage the rest of the drive home and I still think this POS needs to be left to rot in a North Korean prison camp.

How can people be so brainless?

Seriously, well done on outwardly controlling your rage in front of your son. It takes real self control to be that disciplined when you just want to unleash hell - and rightfully so.

[mrkajz44]

Seems like my gear grinder about the truck might actually be a little more legit than I first thought? The picture timun posted is quite accurate, though the one this guy drives is a bit older and beat up.

To be honest, I think the only thing that really annoys me about the situation is he parks in front of our house and then walks away to his house. He knows it's a big ugly truck and doesn't want it in his driveway or in front of his house. If the guy lived a few homes away I probably wouldn't have an issue.

Originally Posted by timun

Technically any truck with a GVWR >4,500 kg (~10,000 lb) cannot be parked on a residential street overnight. That means anything bigger than a half-ton pickup...

I was looking in the by-law briefly and couldn't find this. I would be curious to know where this is stated? If this is actually a rule I would definitely start reporting him.

[btimbit]

Originally Posted by mrkajz44

I was looking in the by-law briefly and couldn't find this. I would be curious to know where this is stated? If this is actually a rule I would definitely start reporting him.

There's two that would kinda apply, the truck route bylaw in Calgary would be a commercial vehicle with a registered weight over 5450kg, parked off of a truck route. Particularly between 1900 and 0700. Then there is also a really small fine for one over 4500kg parked in a residential area, then I think it's double if it's between certain hours at night.

But you'd have to be really bad to actually ever get that ticket in something as small as a one ton or even something like an F550. Like all bylaws it's completely discretionary about whether to ticket or not and I doubt it would happen in this situation unless the guy was being a real ass, for a long time. Plus there's like, a million exemptions and exceptions

If you want to read into it more it would all be a part of the truck route bylaw, not the traffic bylaw

[timun]

Originally Posted by mrkajz44

I was looking in the by-law briefly and couldn't find this. I would be curious to know where this is stated? If this is actually a rule I would definitely start reporting him.

I don't want to tell you, 'cause I don't want you to rat the guy out!

[timun]

Originally Posted by djsFlames

Being behind someone on a turn ramp who is merging onto a busy major road going 10-15 km under the limit. Firstly, they're going to struggle to merge. And in turn they're going to make it doubly hard for you to merge also.

1000x easier to get in if you get yourself up to the same speed as the traffic on that road. Instead you turn us both into massive hazards for people who can't merge left to make space for us.

Biggest peeve on the road for me is this.

[Wormius]

Originally Posted by mrkajz44

Seems like my gear grinder about the truck might actually be a little more legit than I first thought? The picture timun posted is quite accurate, though the one this guy drives is a bit older and beat up.

To be honest, I think the only thing that really annoys me about the situation is he parks in front of our house and then walks away to his house. He knows it's a big ugly truck and doesn't want it in his driveway or in front of his house. If the guy lived a few homes away I probably wouldn't have an issue.



I was looking in the by-law briefly and couldn't find this. I would be curious to know where this is stated? If this is actually a rule I would definitely start reporting him.

So are there no other parking spaces between where he left the truck and his own place? I suppose the only valid reason would be if he or any neighbours are getting landscaping or construction done and need that truck moved elsewhere, but if that isn’t the case, could just leave a note on the truck saying you see it there everyday and there isn’t enough room for visitors’ vehicles.

[Barnet Flame]

Originally Posted by mrkajz44

Seems like my gear grinder about the truck might actually be a little more legit than I first thought? The picture timun posted is quite accurate, though the one this guy drives is a bit older and beat up.

To be honest, I think the only thing that really annoys me about the situation is he parks in front of our house and then walks away to his house. He knows it's a big ugly truck and doesn't want it in his driveway or in front of his house. If the guy lived a few homes away I probably wouldn't have an issue.



I was looking in the by-law briefly and couldn't find this. I would be curious to know where this is stated? If this is actually a rule I would definitely start reporting him.

Something doesn’t have to be illegal to be a legitimate gear grinder. When I read your first post I agreed it was a solid gear grinder.

[powderjunkie]

Originally Posted by mrkajz44

Seems like my gear grinder about the truck might actually be a little more legit than I first thought? The picture timun posted is quite accurate, though the one this guy drives is a bit older and beat up.

To be honest, I think the only thing that really annoys me about the situation is he parks in front of our house and then walks away to his house. He knows it's a big ugly truck and doesn't want it in his driveway or in front of his house. If the guy lived a few homes away I probably wouldn't have an issue.



I was looking in the by-law briefly and couldn't find this. I would be curious to know where this is stated? If this is actually a rule I would definitely start reporting him.

Might it be functionally easier for him to park near you instead of his place? Like would he be looking at a 5 point turn every morning from his own house, but can simply drive away from the other spot?

[Cecil Terwilliger]

I went to the bathroom in the office the other day and there was a dude watching Netflix? YouTube? In one of the stalls at full volume.

Like, ya at least it wasn’t porn but it still seems odd. Wear headphones or browse Reddit in silence like a normal person you freak.

[TheIronMaiden]

Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger

I went to the bathroom in the office the other day and there was a dude watching Netflix? YouTube? In one of the stalls at full volume.

Like, ya at least it wasn’t porn but it still seems odd. Wear headphones or browse Reddit in silence like a normal person you freak.

It is his world, and you're just living in it.

[ripTDR]

Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger

I went to the bathroom in the office the other day and there was a dude watching Netflix? YouTube? In one of the stalls at full volume.

Like, ya at least it wasn’t porn but it still seems odd. Wear headphones or browse Reddit in silence like a normal person you freak.

There's dudes where I work where they do this in the lunch room. Watching FB videos and Tiktok stuff at volume when you want silence. We have a good working relationship and I don't want to rock the boat, but secretly they should be waterboarded...

[btimbit]

Seriously. I got a cheap no-name set of wireless headphones from amazon for $30, throw one in one ear and leave the other so you can still hear stuff around you.

How clueless do you need to be to think that playing volume from your phone speaker publicly is acceptable