It's 10:04PM and I have just finished.

[cbelt3]

Congratulations, and good luck. Nice to hear about a sociological thesis that studies humans instead of psueodo-life forms like 'celebrities' or some other silicon-enhanced non sentient creatures. I look forward to some serious buzz on documentary cable channels, etc..

[The Grim Ninja]

Congrats on being done. I understand how you feel when you power down, it's just so weird/erie quiet, something must be wrong..

YouTube limits you to 10 minutes. If you actually want to share, I have plenty of bandwidth if you make it a reasonable size.

[laarree]

Can we presume that you did your 4,000 miles of research travel
in a blue Subaru?

[blusubaru]

Nope. Riding along with drivers for 3700 of that, then in my newer Red Subaru for the remainder

Ok, gotta shake off the excitement and sleep now.

[laarree]

I'm experiencing cognitive dissonance just thinking about blusubaru
in a Red Subaru.

[C(-)ris]

Congrats Blu!!! Let us know how it goes. Hopefully we can have a victory celebration tommorow.

[Jp!]

I rode along with a food product OTR/Logistics guy. I loaded the trailer with product BY HAND, was passenger for hundreds of miles, unloaded the trailer BY HAND. I was surprised at the difference in ride quality of a full-load vs empty trailer. I could not breath normally when empty. The constant slamming of the trailer against the cab, coupled with the lousy seat dynamics, was like getting punched in the gut every 3 seconds. I literally could NOT hold a conversation with the driver, except grunting yes/no, etc. The driver's seat was on some funky pneumatic/spring shock absorber and mine was not.

This company's rigs were one of the first to implement some sort of computer/GPS system, circa 1988. The driver had a 'card' that would fit into the computer. It would know his route. They were not allowed to go above the THEN 55 MPH speed limit AT ALL. Anytime a driver exceeded 55 MPH for more than one minute, got BEEPED and logged for that driver's performance. THREE times in one day/trip was cause for disciplinary action.

If there was a DROP in speed, or they did not make it to their destination within the allowed tolerance (slow traffic, wreck, detour, etc) they had to log that instance and explain it. Even including the time allowed for unloading cargo.

It was interesting to experience that. I was most surprised how much the driver paid no attention to other traffic. That is, he stayed in the right lane, and drove to his destination. No verbal or non-verbal communication of any kind with any other traffic. It was very matter-of-fact, straight-up driving.

[Harbourmaster]

Nothing like getting a big project done early...

[3d]

Congrats!
Uhhh.. you remembered to back up the file in MULTIPLE locations, yes? :-X