Speaking of Jesus, I saw a pickup truck today with a message on the back window that read, "God Never Sleeps."

Had a couple of thoughts about that.

1) Dead people don't sleep either.
and
2) That explains a lot.

Designed by an accountant most likely because it achieves the efficiency goal of having fewer people to hire and pay to pickup trash. However, it seems that having a more complicated machine would require more people to fix or maintain it.

I remember when I was a kid, the garbage truck had a driver and 2-3 guys that ran ahead to pick up the trash cans and dump it in the truck as it drove slowly down the street. We now have a similar two-man system, but it's not like the one in the video. It has a crane thing in the back, one guy drives the truck and another gets out and pulls the trash cans to the back of the truck for the crane to pick up and dump in.

It seems slower as the truck is constantly stopping and going and it's just one guy dumping one can at a time. I suppose it's safer, and also requires fewer people to pay.

Maybe an Engineer filming that absolute failure of mechanical design. Seriously, that is the dumbest automated pickup system ever. It achieves exactly 0 efficiency goals.

So less about Vegans and more about House trying to pickup?

I see a lot of fail to go around in this video. Naturally, the biggest failure is on the part of the driver who failed to secure their cargo. that is grievous and inexcusable negligence (assuming it wasn't the result of freak equipment failure like a strap breaking).

I don't like all the cars swerving out of their lane to avoid the ladder. Can't really say for certain from the video how aware they were of surrounding traffic and distances involved, but that is usually the wrong response. Better to come to a complete stop in your lane if you have to. I'm pretty sure the tailgater wasn't aware of that pickup coming up on his left.

And of course the guy not leaving enough space when he had plenty of alternatives available. That guy and his like-minded buddies are the primary reason 40% of my commutes over the last two weeks have been an hour and a half instead of the 20 minutes they should be.

I think it must be the heat or something, but way too many people have been driving foolishly or like they're defending their position lately.

At least two second intervals. Let other drivers merge. Use the accelerator on the on ramp--you should be going the speed limit by the time you have to merge with traffic. We'd all get home quicker that way.

Ah, that's better. Thank you Videosift for the therapy session.

I know the big pickup in the opening scene was my stepmom's. She was an extra when they were filming in Austin.

You and me both. Years ago I had a job at White Sands Missile range, where the main entrance road was named after PFC Marvin R. Owen, an MP who had been on duty during one of those monsoon rains. Some guy reporting for duty from New Jersey, or some such station, didn't want to be late. So he drove into the running arroyo that separated him from post HQ. He had his wife and two kids with him as I recall, and they all started floating downstream. PFC Owen drove his pickup into the arroyo in an attempt to stop the car, but they were all swept away.

They all drowned in the middle of the desert, and the next day most likely there was hardly any water to be seen.

I tend not to be the first one to cross.

My brother used to do that for fun in his Chevy Love pickup at similar speeds.
That's what happens when you can get a license at 14.

It'd only really be an average day of driving in Thailand if there was a few motorbikes or a pickup or two driving the wrong way against the flow of traffic in the far left lane there...

Funny, that's exactly how my parents felt when I asked them for a car.....
....but they helped my older brother get his hardship license at 14 in Texas, bought him a pickup truck, and replaced it with a new Toyota Supra when he turned 16. I don't think he even paid for gas until he was over 18.
I bought my own 8 year old Pontiac Lemons and paid for my own insurance and gas (and repaired it myself, no money left for mechanics), and got my license with no help at all when I turned 16....and I feel excessively lucky I was fortunate enough to be able to do it.

Excitement for my plans to make myself a 9 string bass with the highest string betting guitar, using one single curved back neck in the creation of a dual fretted/single 9 string/highest guitar string etc. Opposing faced, designed to accommodate the most coil pickups/hummbuckers I can fit/ make fit. Farraday caging the parts with inconel 600 non magnetic foil (aviation grade). Use non solder crimping connections, platinum cable/wire & connectors with graduating switches/transition low to highest setting etc. Built in anti surge devices, connection.

Seems to me that is probably the latest orca pickup line. I'll try it at the bar tonight and see if it works.

WTF, has no one ever heard of Amazon Pickup Locations?

maybe it helps with traction? (like putting sand bags in the trunk of a rear-wheel-drive car, or bed of a pickup)