Re: Crop Assurance -- What happened?

Jim Webster <Jim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
>Our problem is that the people come into our area and bottle out at the
>idea of driving down a 9ft wide road with high stone walls on either side.
>They cannot reverse and just sit there panicking if something comes in the
>other direction

Its extraordinary how few people will reverse.
Even more extraordinary how few people know how to.

I think this is connected with use of all three mirrors.

Once you have seen a truck driver manipulate into an impossible space,
you realise the value of mirrors and use them.

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