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Top-5 truck driver bugbears
Not enough room, no decent food, unhygienic facilities and a logbook counting down whether you're ready or not... Pull into almost any major truck stop in Australia and you'll find the same things: not enough bays, shrinking food options, facilities in questionable condition, and the quiet dread of an electronic logbook ticking toward a breach.
What the driver test doesn't teach you
Getting a truck licence teaches you how to pass a test, but the real learning takes place out on the road Ask any experienced truck driver what their licence actually prepared them for and you'll get the same answer: not much. The test is a box-ticking exercise. The real curriculum gets delivered on the job, sometimes the hard way. "When you go for your licence, you were just taught to go forward, back, and change gears.
Mere Evangelism: 10 Insights from C.S. Lewis to Help You Share Your Faith
Recommended Citation Forster, Greg (2022) "Mere Evangelism: 10 Insights from C.S. Lewis to Help You Share Your Faith," Witness: Vol. 36: Iss. 1, Article 6. Available at: https://place.asburyseminary.edu/witness_aete/vol36/iss1/6
Free AI tools that can help truckies at tax time
How AI can help transport operators get their tax paperwork in order before June 30 Whether you're an owner-driver running one truck or managing a fleet, the end of the financial year doesn't have to be a scramble. AI tools are changing the way transport operators handle their paperwork and it starts with something as simple as a phone and a pile of receipts.
Western Star Heritage restoration: from the yard to the show circuit
A sleepless night and 47 years of family transport history inspired a two-year restoration Some of the best ideas arrive at the worst possible hour. For Ray, it was 1:00am when a truck he hadn’t driven in years suddenly occupied his thoughts – a 1997 Western Star Heritage sitting dormant in the yard, its engine already replaced and its potential quietly fading. By morning, the decision was made. He was going to restore it.
Ford Louisville restoration: Rebuilding the truck that crossed the Nullarbor
A chance rediscovery in Tasmania leads to the careful revival of a well-travelled interstate workhorse For most people, a work truck is just a tool of the trade. But for one Tasmanian driver, a particular Ford Louisville represented something far more personal — a defining chapter of his life spent driving across the Nullarbor Plain during the golden era of Australian interstate transport.
Essential tools every truck driver should carry on the road
When you’re hundreds of kilometres from help, the right tools can turn a potential breakdown into a minor delay Every experienced driver has a story about being stranded roadside with a simple mechanical issue that could have been resolved in minutes – if only they'd had the right equipment on board. I spoke with four seasoned interstate drivers to discover what they consider the absolute essentials for any truck driver's toolbox.
Understanding GVM, GCM and payload
This guide breaks down gross vehicle mass (GVM), gross combination mass (GCM), and payload and explains axle limits for both single- and dual-tyre setups Every truck driver and owner-operator needs to understand the three critical weight measurements that determine what you can legally carry and tow. Getting these wrong doesn't just risk fines – it compromises safety and can void your insurance.
PBS trucks explained: What it is and how it affects your business
Performance Based Standards (PBS) trucks are transforming Australia’s heavy vehicle industry, boosting productivity, safety and efficiency on the road With freight volumes tipped to rise by 30 to 50 per cent over the next 20 years, improving productivity and safety in road transport has never been more critical. Necessity breeds innovation, which is why we’re now seeing increasingly creative axle and trailer combinations on Australian roads.
What licences do you need to drive a truck in Australia?
Understand the different categories and requirements before you hit the road, and how they change across state lines If you’re aiming to drive heavy vehicles professionally in Australia, you’ll be dealing with a national licence class system. However, rules and criteria surrounding training, testing, and upgrade timelines vary from state to state, so being aware of your state’s requirements is crucial.
Five money-saving tips for long-haul truck drivers
With the cost of living continuing to rise, smart preparation can save you hundreds of dollars on the road. trucksales spoke with three experienced interstate drivers – Tim, Laurence, and Dale – to uncover their proven money-saving strategies. Related: Understanding truck depreciation Related: Six handy truck cleaning hacks Related: The pleasures and pitfalls of electronic work diaries Pre-trip meal preparation is your biggest money-saver.
Understanding commercial vehicle depreciation
Running a successful freight or delivery business requires careful financial management, particularly when it comes to your business’s largest capital investment: the trucks or vans at the heart of its operations. While tax depreciation affects all equipment regardless of brand, market value depreciation can vary significantly based on multiple factors that every owner/driver or fleet operator should understand.
Six handy truck cleaning hacks
Professional drivers understand that, in addition to regular maintenance checks, keeping your truck clean is equally important, as it reflects a sense of pride in your workplace. But the task of keeping your rig gleaming doesn’t have to be terrible, and here we reveal how common household items can be used to tackle even the toughest truck cleaning challenge.
KING WILLY - PAUL CACCAMO 1941 WILLYS COUPE
22 Views When it comes to hot rodding, there are certain models that are eternally sort after, such as the ’32 Ford, and then there are others that have gained “in vogue” status as time and availability alters. For hot rodding’s balls out, quarter mile, bitumen badass heroes of the gasser wars like the Willys coupe, it’s always been a love-hate relationship amongst onlookers.
Strategic Ambiguity on Apple Podcasts
David is joined this week by Dr. Greg Forster, a professor at Trinity International University and the author of numerous fine works in the domain of faith and culture (one such link below). If avoiding the two reductionist extremes of the moment leaves one homeless in the current moment, David and Greg are roommates on the street.
The Innovative Edge Of Flexible Structures Within Logistical Landscapes
By Greg Forster, freelance writer. In a world that’s constantly pushing the boundaries of innovation and efficiency, particularly within the logistics and supply chain industries, a rather fascinating player comes into the limelight – the world of engineered fabric buildings. Nestled right in the bustling heart of logistical management, these structures offer an intriguing blend of robustness and portability, unlike any traditional edifice.
The Innovative Edge Of Flexible Structures Within Logistical Landscapes
By Greg Forster, freelance writer. In a world that’s constantly pushing the boundaries of innovation and efficiency, particularly within the logistics and supply chain industries, a rather fascinating player comes into the limelight – the world of engineered fabric buildings. Nestled right in the bustling heart of logistical management, these structures offer an intriguing blend of robustness and portability, unlike any traditional edifice.
The Innovative Edge of Flexible Structures within Logistical Landscapes
By Greg Forster, freelance writer. In a world that's constantly pushing the boundaries of innovation and efficiency, particularly within the logistics and supply chain industries, a rather fascinating player comes into the limelight – the world of engineered fabric buildings. Nestled right in the bustling heart of logistical management, these structures offer an intriguing blend of robustness and portability, unlike any traditional edifice.
DAVE ANDERSEN MODEL A GASSER -
I was asked to go to Chopped and find something interesting, something that stood out! If you’re not familiar with Chopped, it’s a weekend event that attracts all your wild crazy customs, bikes and rods with a period setting of pre 1965! Thanks for the challenge! As I perused the outspread camping grounds of tents and tow vehicles blending with custom rides and camp fires, I spotted the wild stance on Dave Andersen’s rough looking Model A and went to investigate further.
Social Controversies in the Classroom: How to Put Learning First
Discussing emotionally charged social controversies in the classroom is one of the few parts of my job for which I feel really well-equipped. I just finished a teaching appointment in systematic theology, but I obtained my doctoral training in that field relatively late in life. My original doctoral training was in political philosophy.
Mere Evangelism, by Randy Newman
Open Access Subscription Access Mere Evangelism, by Randy Newman Greg Forster Full Text: PDF Refbacks There are currently no refbacks. Copyright (c) 2022 Witness: The Journal of the Academy for Evangelism in Theological Education
5 Myths about Leadership
This article is part of the 5 Myths series. Harmful Statements about Leadership Let’s give attention to some statements about leadership that are endorsed by our culture but may not be true. In fact, these statements may even be harmful to individuals and organizations and the missions they pursue. Myth #1: Everyone is a leader. This statement is ubiquitous in leadership literature. A quick internet search will guide you to a host of articles with this phrase in the title.
The economy of God | Christian History Magazine
IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, when factories drew workers away from the countryside and the moral boundaries of ancient agricultural traditions, many lived in squalid conditions and drank horrendously. Most employers didn’t take much care of them. One inventor of the modern factory, though, was a Christian entrepreneur.
School Choice and Viewpoint Diversity: Competing Visions. A Dialogue Between Greg Forster and Robert Pondiscio (Part 2) - Heterodox Academy
This blog is part of our new “Heterodox Dialogues” series, which models constructive disagreement among authors who hold opposing or conflicting views. Through an exchange of essays, authors refine their perspectives, find constructive compromises, and offer new solutions. In part 1 of this dialogue, Robert Pondiscio and Greg Forster debated the relationship between school choice and viewpoint diversity in K-12 education.
School Choice and Viewpoint Diversity: Competing Visions. A Dialogue Between Greg Forster and Robert Pondiscio (Part 1) - Heterodox Academy
This blog is part of our new “Heterodox Dialogues” series, which models constructive disagreement among authors who hold opposing or conflicting views on topics. Through an exchange of essays, authors refine their perspectives, find constructive compromises, and offer new solutions.
Daniel Buck Mischaracterizes My Views
Daniel Buck Mischaracterizes My Views (Guest post by Greg Forster) In a post that ran today on Gadfly, Daniel Buck attributes to me views that I do not hold, and mischaracterizes the content of the articles he links to by myself and Neal McCluskey. I reached out to Fordham to ask for an opportunity to run a response, but they refused. I even offered to revise my response to meet concerns they might have, but they refused to allow me to run any response.
Pondiscio Makes Progress
(Guest post by Greg Forster) I am delighted to report that Robert Pondiscio seems to have realized how wrong he was when he wrote a month ago that “school choice may ‘solve’ the CRT problem for a family, but it can’t address the clear interest every American holds in the education of the next generation.” His new post is simply chock full of ways in which school choice can address the clear interest every American holds in the education of the next generation.
Robert Pondiscio Expects a Miracle
(Guest post by Greg Forster) Robert Pondiscio apparently wants to make it as hard as possible for him to accomplish his own goals. In a new article for AEI, he attacks school choice for the unforgiveable crime of being something other than a campaign to fight CRT in the government monopoly school system. In doing so, he alienates his own allies. He says he’s a choice supporter. Choice supporters are also, overwhelmingly, opponents of CRT.
The President’s Executive Order Is Vaporware
(Guest post by Greg Forster) The executive order issued yesterday by the president, whose headline suggests it creates a federal school choice program for students whose schools have gone all-remote, is vaporware. It creates no program, and what it does do would require about a year of sustained bureaucracy-wrangling and lawsuit-fending-off effort by the White House and the HHS secretary before it would produce any real effect.
10 Key Bible Verses on Joy
This article is part of the Key Bible Verses series. God’s Gift to the Believer Joy is the gift of God to those who trust in Christ. Be encouraged by these verses and commentary adapted from the ESV Study Bible. Nehemiah 8:10 Then he said to them, “Go your way. Eat the fat and drink sweet wine and send portions to anyone who has nothing ready, for this day is holy to our Lord.
5 Myths about Biblical Theology
This article is part of the 5 Myths series. Myth #1: Biblical theology is just theology that is biblical. When we first hear the term biblical theology, we may think it refers to sound doctrine—truth that accords with Scripture. But it more commonly refers to a way of reading the Bible that focuses on the story of the whole Bible. It explores the unity of Scripture by focusing on how God progressively reveals himself and his Christ–centered plan for history.
CC Broke the Law, So Does Defunding Schools Using 1619
CC Broke the Law, So Does Defunding Schools Using 1619 (Guest post by Greg Forster) When some Republicans pushed a federal school choice law recently, I wrote that I was “looking forward to the retractions and apologies from all the right-wingers who opposed Common Core on federalism grounds. Including – gosh, will you look at that! – one of this bill’s primary sponsors.“ Now the president has announced he will have the DOE withhold funds from schools that use the 1619 Project.
School Choice Could Resolve the Reopening Crisis
School Choice Could Resolve the Reopening Crisis (Guest post by Greg Forster) OCPA carries my column on why school choice is the way to handle the school reopening crisis. My school board decided to give me the perfect hook for the piece by . . . well, just read: In my community, our public school board reversed itself twice, in August, on the question of whether schools would reopen for in-person learning in September.
Secularism Cannot Sustain Liberty, a Response to Greg Forster – R. Albert Mohler, Jr.
An author should be grateful for every serious book review and reviewer. Thus, I deeply appreciate the seriousness with which Greg Forster has reviewed in this space my latest book, The Gathering Storm. His review reveals a careful reading of the book and an acknowledgment that ideas really do have consequences. My response is not so much a protest of his review as it is a clarification of what I believe to be the issues at stake. And let’s be clear—the issues are urgent and unavoidable.
Why We Need a Paradigm Shift about Money
Kingdom-Driven Finances God’s goal for our financial life is that it would be driven by the grand call of his kingdom, not by personal need and provision. When we reverse that order, we never end up celebrating God’s generosity and committing to a generous life. If, with our money, we start with ourselves, we will never escape the endless needs, wants, and demands we place on our money. Our money will be dominated by self-focus, and we’ll try to somehow squeeze God into the plan.
Martha Nussbaum's Flawed Humanism
In her new book, Martha Nussbaum stitches together what she calls “the cosmopolitan tradition,” mines and judges it, then moves on to her own (better) thinking about the demands of justice and law. The four thinkers she studies—Cicero, Marcus Aurelius, Hugo Grotius, and Adam Smith—share an attachment to a universal natural standard that can and should be applied to politics, both national and international.
In McCarthyism’s Long Shadow
Do we need another mammoth biography of Joe McCarthy? Fervent defenses of the man and “ism,” and equally partisan denunciations, have appeared over the years, beginning almost as quickly as he rose to prominence, starting with William F.
The Constitution Doesn't Need to be Rebuilt
In 1914, Herbert Croly published a broadside against the American Constitution. Progressive Democracy accused the founders of a sin to which they would happily confess: elevating written law over public will. The same year, Croly co-founded The New Republic, a journal whose incarnations over the century since have promoted nascent Progressivism, New Deal liberalism, and centrism that has swung both ways. The magazine has come full circle.
American Meritocracy: A Tipping Point? – James Hankins
It will probably take many years before we will be able to grasp fully the devastation left behind by 2020’s perfect storm of pandemic and civil disorder. On Wall Street analysts have for months been assessing the damage done to the American economy, while others view with alarm and foreboding a new wave of radical challenges to the rule of law, backed in too many cases by government officials who should know better.
The New York Times Reveals the Anger of Progressivism
An American Senator published an op-ed in the New York Times expressing the political opinion of half the nation, and indeed included the kind of evidence the Times would require for that claim of majority representation—polling, in this instance. The subject was the burning American cities that many progressives claim we should take in stride, but which most of the rest of the country believes should be forcibly stopped, if necessary by the military.
The Rotten Roots of Neo-Brandeisian Antitrust
Neo-Brandeisian antitrust puts old wine into old wineskins. It repeats the fundamental mistakes of Louis Brandeis’s vision of antitrust in the early 20th century. Brandeis believed that the judiciary could balance a variety of social goods to create a better sort of competition than the market. He thus made three mistakes simultaneously. First, he substituted his own view of competition for that defined by the market.
Misreading The Prince
A Florentine bureaucrat of the late 15th and early 16th century has continued to fascinate politicians, scholars, and the public alike. Although he witnessed at close hand the deeds of both hapless and ruthless European rulers of the Renaissance that resulted in devastating wars for the Italian peninsula, it is not the life but rather the words of Niccolò Machiavelli that have earned him fame—and infamy. Both types of notoriety derive from his most well-known work, his small treatise The Prince.
Europe: Land of the Free?
America used to be the homeland of market freedom and innovation. Foreigners still believe it is. But is it? Thomas Philippon thinks it is not. His book, The Great Reversal, is refreshing in many ways. He considers innovation’s impact upon the population at large. If you look at gadgets, the US is clearly producing more and newer and better, but if you look at the effect of innovation on people’s salaries, the EU is doing better.
Understanding Pinochet
Writing a biography of someone like General Augusto Pinochet is fraught with potential pitfalls. Does it become an exercise in whitewashing someone whose regime oversaw a brutal repression which included the “disappearing” of approximately 2,228 people? Or does a biographer unquestionably accept the left’s narrative about Pinochet, one which downplays the abyss to which the much-romanticized Marxist, Salvador Allende, led Chile during his short presidency?
When Astrologers Rule
The origin of the word “lot” is the Teutonic hleut, which was the pebble that priests and judges cast to make decisions. It is also the source of the Italian lotteria, and the French loterie, which eventually came to refer to games of chance. However, in both Dutch and English, the word “lot” also refers to man’s destiny. The two uses of the word are not accidental. When risks are incalculable, political leaders must still point to some legitimating justification for their decisions.
Will Homeschooling Really Cause a "COVID Slide"?
National Public Radio recently reported on what is being dubbed the “COVID-19 Slide,” the theorized slump in schoolchildren’s academic performance as a result of mandated school closings. What grabbed my attention was a comment by Megan Kuhfeld, of the Northwest Evaluation Association (NWEA): We really wanted to know how bad this could look in terms of learning losses, especially early on, when the schools were really trying to meet basic needs—[like] providing food, providing devices.
Controlling Thought
Too great attention to the use of language is a distraction from the essential and easily becomes mere pedantry; but to pay too little is to risk being deceived or manipulated by those who use language wrongly. Words, Aristotle said, should not bear more precision than possible; but neither should they bear less than possible.
Freedom and Decline
For the first time in memory, the United States had severe restrictions on individual freedom in place during the Jewish celebration of Passover—a holiday that, by tradition, is associated with freedom and celebrations with family. Yet, strange as it may seem, especially to those who do not read the Old Testament in Hebrew, the word “freedom”—heruth—does not appear anywhere in the Old Testament, including the story of the Exodus from Egypt.
Pandemics, Elites, and the Future of the Cities
Pandemics have not historically been equal-opportunity offenders. Those with resources tend to decamp to country estates while those without bear the brunt of infections and deaths. Two maps from recent editions of the New York Times illustrate how nothing is more constant during pandemics than human nature. Figure 1, below, shows how many residents departed New York City by May 1, 2020. We’ve heard a lot about how Manhattan has become a ghost town due to social distancing.
A Protestant Integralism?
If political liberalism means anything, it means a civil law that does not take sides in religion. It therefore commits us to at least a limited form of secularization (i.e. secularization of the law). Thus, the important arguments against liberalism will always include Christians who oppose it because it is a form of secularization.
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