Re: GIMP 3.0.0-RC1

On 2025-01-01 21:38, rbowman wrote:

On Wed, 1 Jan 2025 14:53:34 +0100, Carlos E.R. wrote:
 

Lorry drivers in Spain, long ago, were known as gentlemen of the road.
Certainly not so in recent times. They are exploited, and it shows in
their tempers. They drive around tired.

 The US has regulations going back to the '30s that almost guarantee driver
fatigue. A Simple description is you can only drive for 10 hours in one
period and then you must be off for at least 8 hours. The 10 hours becomes
11, with a mandatory break of at least 1/2 hour, and a 15 minute vehicle
inspection. All in all you wind up with a 19 hour day.
 LA to Denver is 1000 miles. The company mandated you could log an average
speed of 60 mph, another fiction, meaning the first leg was 600 miles,
which put you someplace in Utah. Then you were supposed to presumably
sleep for 8 hours despite it being around 5 PM before you could wake up at
1 AM and continue on.
 That was the theory. Personally I would drive straight through, back into
the loading dock in Denver at around 5 PM Sunday, have supper, read a
while, and have a good night's sleep before the crew showed up on Monday
to unload the truck.
 Some creativity was needed to produce a log book showing the legal times
for the company's records and any nosy DOT cop. I had my adventure and
went back to programming before they radio-collared trucks.

Yes, there are rules here, and ways to go around them, somehow. I understand there is/was a cardboard disk that registers the truck speed. Now there is some electronic version with a card with a chip (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_tachograph).
But companies are often abusive, specially if the driver is an immigrant.
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Cheers, Carlos.