GTSSportCoupe
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Ahhh, off road trailers, very cool. That is a whole different ball game there. Now you've got me thinking...
Towing: How slow is too slow these days?
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Ahhh, off road trailers, very cool. That is a whole different ball game there. Now you've got me thinking...
I had an m101 for several years...
thing of it is, you have all the hassle of towing a trailer, paying for it on the ferry, licensing etc etc, yet you're STILL sleeping in a damn tent.
Albeit a really expensive one with a better mattress, but just as much thrashing fabric in wind and rain.
So, enter boler, exit m101.
Not as off road friendly but, like I care about that...
thing of it is, you have all the hassle of towing a trailer, paying for it on the ferry, licensing etc etc, yet you're STILL sleeping in a damn tent.
Albeit a really expensive one with a better mattress, but just as much thrashing fabric in wind and rain.
So, enter boler, exit m101.
Not as off road friendly but, like I care about that...
Or just forget towing anything and get one of these instead.
http://www.expeditionportal.com/forum/threads/115753-Land-Cruiser-EX280-expedition-camper-by-Bimobil
Dare to dream...dare to dream.
http://www.expeditionportal.com/forum/threads/115753-Land-Cruiser-EX280-expedition-camper-by-Bimobil
Dare to dream...dare to dream.
Cool truck, and i'd rather have a camper than a trailer any day also. Interior colours are very "ikea-esq", or patterns just haven't changed since the 70's...
meh.
Leave it as is, and just accept the slowness.
I just towed the boler up to CR and back for a pissup, even passed someone going up the nanoose hill.
Mostly though, I got passed by uncounted douchebags in dodges and fords with 18" lifts and big tailpipes ,all of them doing at least 30 over the limit, and towing bigass trailers, big sunglasses, flatbrimmed hats and, most likely, affliction tshirts.
Most going so fast that the tails were starting to wag,( but they've added 100hp to their truck, so it can tow much more safely now right?)
On the straights where the road was in good shape, it actually felt ok at 100kph, but that's a rarity for me. Doesn't really matter how slow or fast you go, those idiots will still blast past you at the first 100ft passing lane. Going slower gives them more time to do it without clipping your nose as they pull back in.
Personally I think the speed limit for trailers should be 10k less than everyone else, regardless of what you're towing with, like they do in the states.
I seem to recall the Scott family owning a rather large white Ford 350 powerchoke, quad cab, longbox, dually with a custom wooden boat interior with marine gages, marine lit compass on the dash, just in case you were navigating by the stars on the highway, only difference was a tilly hat and pants that unzipped at the knee for those long treks to the roadside turnout washrooms...
Oh, and yup i'll cut you off if you're the dude driving slow in the fast lane not keeping up to the posted speed limit pulling a trailer or not...
GTSSportCoupe
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I stay in the slow lane when towing, trust me. People driving slow in the fast lane should be ticketed IMO. The South Island is the worst place I've been in Canada for this.
I seem to recall the Scott family owning a rather large white Ford 350 powerchoke, quad cab, longbox, dually with a custom wooden boat interior with marine gages, marine lit compass on the dash, just in case you were navigating by the stars on the highway, only difference was a tilly hat and pants that unzipped at the knee for those long treks to the roadside turnout washrooms...
Oh, and yup i'll cut you off if you're the dude driving slow in the fast lane not keeping up to the posted speed limit pulling a trailer or not...
Ahh, Pepe Le Pew has returned I see....would Penelope zee Cat not favour you today?
Well, as you smoke your way past in your flaming red truck at alberta speeds, be sure to wipe the grease from the frog legs off the fingers, take a little of that rakish lean off the beret and squint through the haze of Gauloises so you can see to your right.
Les oiseaux will be flying high in the drivers window----->>
I won't need to hold the steering wheel at the speed I'll be going in that Ferd....
BC Ferry Hostages
Are ferry execs hosing taxpayers? Let's compare with Washington
B.C. Ferries president got $544,000 including perks last year, while part-time board chair raked in six figures; Wash. state's ferry boss makes $152,000
BY MICHAEL SMYTH, THE PROVINCEAUGUST 25, 2013
If you're tempted to buy the spin coming from B.C. Ferries about the massive salaries, bonuses, double-dip pensions, company cars and the rest of the executive pork-barrelling going on, take a peek south of the border first.
The Washington state ferry system is comparable to our own in many ways, but executive compensation is not one of them.
The head of Washington State Ferries is David Moseley, who's been at the helm of the state's 22-vessel fleet for five years.
Moseley's current annual salary is $151,949 (all figures in Canadian currency).
Compare that to Michael Corrigan, president of B.C. Ferries, who last year earned a base salary of $364,000 - more than double his Washington counterpart.
The disparities don't end there. Last year, Corrigan banked $107,309 in employer contributions to his two - yes, two - pension plans.
Moseley has one pension. The state's contribution to it: $13,994.
Then we get to the bonuses. Corrigan bagged a $64,421 performance bonus in 2012.
Moseley's bonus last year: Zero. Washington state does not pay bonuses to its ferry executives.
Let's throw in Corrigan's $8,477 vehicle allowance, shall we? Moseley's vehicle allowance: zero. He pays for his own car.
In total, Corrigan's $544,000 compensation package vastly exceeds Moseley's, even though the Washington ferry system carried two million more passengers and three million more vehicles than B.C. Ferries last year.
Man, are we getting hosed. And the comparisons just get worse from there.
Consider that B.C. Ferries' other two senior executives are also making nearly half a million bucks each and last year bagged six-figure bonuses.
B.C. Ferries vice-president Robert Clarke banked $492,207 last year, including a $133,711 bonus. Vice-president Glen Schwartz made $491,643, including a $127,008 bonus.
In Washington state, the two most-senior executives reporting to Moseley are the deputy chiefs of finance and operations. They each make $131,821. No bonuses, of course.
Diving deeper into the B.C. Ferries gravy boat, you reach another lucrative pool of riches called the board of directors.
Donald Hayes, the president and principal owner of a large forestry company, is paid $100,000 to be the part-time chairman of the B.C. Ferries board.
The board has eight part-time directors, making an average of $42,000 each, an annual income for many people. The highest-paid director is Vancouver lawyer Geoff Plant, a former Liberal MLA, who received $51,278 last year.
How much do they pay the board of directors at Washington State Ferries? Nothing. They don't have a board of directors. The company reports directly to the governor.
And that's another huge difference between the two ferry systems: government control.
In Washington state, the head of the ferry system is responsible to the governor and the state legislature, which sets the service's annual budget. In British Columbia, the government has turned B.C. Ferries into a quasi-private corporation that operates independently, even through the government subsidizes its operations and still technically owns it.
That's why we now have the pathetic spectacle of the transportation minister publicly pleading with B.C. Ferries to stop its executive feeding frenzy, and the ferry corporation telling him to pound sand.
The salaries, bonuses, two-at-a-time pensions and gold-plated benefits are all "serving the interests of the company extremely well," chairman Hayes told an annual B.C. Ferries public meeting on Friday.
Well, he would say that, wouldn't he? Would you want to kill the golden goose if it was laying eggs in your backyard? This is an abuse of B.C. taxpayers, not to mention B.C. Ferries customers, already slammed with stratospheric fare hikes that have driven passenger numbers down drastically.
Those same B.C. Ferries passengers are now threatened with $26 million in service cuts because the company is pursuing a "costcontainment strategy" at the same time they line their own pockets with obscene raises and bonuses.
Transportation Minister Todd Stone said the B.C. Ferries featherbedding sends "the wrong message" to the public and he intends to talk to them about it. But that was over a week ago and he still hasn't got around to it.
"They'll probably do nothing and just hope the public forgets all about it," said NDP critic Harry Bains.
He's probably right. That exact strategy has been working for the Liberals for years.
Getting back to Washington state: The fares are a lot cheaper down there, too.
The current round-trip fare for a car and driver between Tsawwassen and Swartz Bay - the busiest route in the B.C. Ferries system - is $133.50.
The busiest route in the Washington state system - with over six million passengers a year - is between Seattle and Bainbridge Island. The return fare: $34.42.
Yes, it's a shorter run. But check the websites of two ferry systems and you'll see the fares in Washington state seem to be lower right across the board.
Gee, I wonder why?
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Are ferry execs hosing taxpayers? Let's compare with Washington
B.C. Ferries president got $544,000 including perks last year, while part-time board chair raked in six figures; Wash. state's ferry boss makes $152,000
BY MICHAEL SMYTH, THE PROVINCEAUGUST 25, 2013
If you're tempted to buy the spin coming from B.C. Ferries about the massive salaries, bonuses, double-dip pensions, company cars and the rest of the executive pork-barrelling going on, take a peek south of the border first.
The Washington state ferry system is comparable to our own in many ways, but executive compensation is not one of them.
The head of Washington State Ferries is David Moseley, who's been at the helm of the state's 22-vessel fleet for five years.
Moseley's current annual salary is $151,949 (all figures in Canadian currency).
Compare that to Michael Corrigan, president of B.C. Ferries, who last year earned a base salary of $364,000 - more than double his Washington counterpart.
The disparities don't end there. Last year, Corrigan banked $107,309 in employer contributions to his two - yes, two - pension plans.
Moseley has one pension. The state's contribution to it: $13,994.
Then we get to the bonuses. Corrigan bagged a $64,421 performance bonus in 2012.
Moseley's bonus last year: Zero. Washington state does not pay bonuses to its ferry executives.
Let's throw in Corrigan's $8,477 vehicle allowance, shall we? Moseley's vehicle allowance: zero. He pays for his own car.
In total, Corrigan's $544,000 compensation package vastly exceeds Moseley's, even though the Washington ferry system carried two million more passengers and three million more vehicles than B.C. Ferries last year.
Man, are we getting hosed. And the comparisons just get worse from there.
Consider that B.C. Ferries' other two senior executives are also making nearly half a million bucks each and last year bagged six-figure bonuses.
B.C. Ferries vice-president Robert Clarke banked $492,207 last year, including a $133,711 bonus. Vice-president Glen Schwartz made $491,643, including a $127,008 bonus.
In Washington state, the two most-senior executives reporting to Moseley are the deputy chiefs of finance and operations. They each make $131,821. No bonuses, of course.
Diving deeper into the B.C. Ferries gravy boat, you reach another lucrative pool of riches called the board of directors.
Donald Hayes, the president and principal owner of a large forestry company, is paid $100,000 to be the part-time chairman of the B.C. Ferries board.
The board has eight part-time directors, making an average of $42,000 each, an annual income for many people. The highest-paid director is Vancouver lawyer Geoff Plant, a former Liberal MLA, who received $51,278 last year.
How much do they pay the board of directors at Washington State Ferries? Nothing. They don't have a board of directors. The company reports directly to the governor.
And that's another huge difference between the two ferry systems: government control.
In Washington state, the head of the ferry system is responsible to the governor and the state legislature, which sets the service's annual budget. In British Columbia, the government has turned B.C. Ferries into a quasi-private corporation that operates independently, even through the government subsidizes its operations and still technically owns it.
That's why we now have the pathetic spectacle of the transportation minister publicly pleading with B.C. Ferries to stop its executive feeding frenzy, and the ferry corporation telling him to pound sand.
The salaries, bonuses, two-at-a-time pensions and gold-plated benefits are all "serving the interests of the company extremely well," chairman Hayes told an annual B.C. Ferries public meeting on Friday.
Well, he would say that, wouldn't he? Would you want to kill the golden goose if it was laying eggs in your backyard? This is an abuse of B.C. taxpayers, not to mention B.C. Ferries customers, already slammed with stratospheric fare hikes that have driven passenger numbers down drastically.
Those same B.C. Ferries passengers are now threatened with $26 million in service cuts because the company is pursuing a "costcontainment strategy" at the same time they line their own pockets with obscene raises and bonuses.
Transportation Minister Todd Stone said the B.C. Ferries featherbedding sends "the wrong message" to the public and he intends to talk to them about it. But that was over a week ago and he still hasn't got around to it.
"They'll probably do nothing and just hope the public forgets all about it," said NDP critic Harry Bains.
He's probably right. That exact strategy has been working for the Liberals for years.
Getting back to Washington state: The fares are a lot cheaper down there, too.
The current round-trip fare for a car and driver between Tsawwassen and Swartz Bay - the busiest route in the B.C. Ferries system - is $133.50.
The busiest route in the Washington state system - with over six million passengers a year - is between Seattle and Bainbridge Island. The return fare: $34.42.
Yes, it's a shorter run. But check the websites of two ferry systems and you'll see the fares in Washington state seem to be lower right across the board.
Gee, I wonder why?
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