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Truck Driver Goes Viral After Sharing This Life-Saving Advice
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Truck Driver Goes Viral After Sharing This Life-Saving Advice

Sharing the road with 18-wheeler trucks can be a scary prospect. After all, an accident with one of those 40-ton trucks isn’t likely to have positive results for someone driving a sedan. Luckily, some truckers are working to make the road safer for everyone.One woman from Montana, for instance, found a new way to communicate with people driving on the road from her own truck-driving experience. Even better, she used her creative platform to warn thousands about some deadly cargo trucks frequently carry… Driving for hours along farm-flanked highways or jam-packed freeways can send even the most stable minded of us into a road psychosis. Yet truck drivers suffer some of the world’s worst highways every day — how do they keep their minds busy? Well, in decades past, truck drivers used CB ...
Would You Send Your Children In An ‘Uber For Kids’?
Family & Parenting

Would You Send Your Children In An ‘Uber For Kids’?

Would you use these services for your children? When kids reach a certain age, it feels like half of parenting is spent driving them from practice to rehearsals to birthday parties to dentist appointments. But what if you could pay someone to pick up carpool duty for you? It turns out you can. Thanks to services like HopSkipDrive, a kid-friendly, Uber-like rideshare company, your kids have reliable transportation without you spending precious time in the car. HopSkipDrive was started by three moms with eight kids between them. The company provides rides for the under 18-set, who cannot have their own Uber accounts or take an Uber without an adult. Lyft, another rideshare service, also does not provide rides for children under 18. The Los Angeles-based company strives to put pa...
20 Ridiculous Photos Of Dumb Drivers That Shouldn’t Be Allowed On The Roads At All
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20 Ridiculous Photos Of Dumb Drivers That Shouldn’t Be Allowed On The Roads At All

Driving is dangerous. Just think of all the thousands of stressed-out, wound up people trying to control two-ton metal machines at dangerously high speeds! So you would think drivers do everything possible to keep their fellow humans safe, right? But the sad truth is that even the best drivers take some not-so-smart risks and drive amok on roads everywhere. Still, even the worst drivers don’t compare to these 20 oddly impressive-and-hilarious driving decisions… 1. You’ve gotta hand it to the dog, here: he wore a helmet, goggles, and practiced great paw placement. Still, one loose tennis ball on the sidewalk or a passing mail truck might cause a traffic jam. 2. When you’re late to work and your car’s covered in eight feet of snow, sometimes you have to make some sacrifices to g...
These Vanity License Plates Were Rejected By The DMV
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These Vanity License Plates Were Rejected By The DMV

Department of Motor Vehicle employees across the U.S. are tasked with the ultimate word search: determining which customized license plate requests could be offensive — and rejecting them. Rules pertaining to vanity plates vary by state, but the general DMV consensus is to rule out character combinations that are lewd or threatening, or that reference sexual acts, bodily excretions, drugs or alcohol. Think you’re slick and can pull a fast one on transportation officials? Know this: review teams that are on the lookout for licentious license plates are armed with slang dictionaries, texting guides, foreign language translators and drug control policy memos so, yes, they know the latest synonyms for marijuana. Our partners at Phoenix’s KNXV-TV culled through some of the 34,000 plat...