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Hot pink was never anything that I associate with surveying, no matter how many times I see it in use by surveyors and construction companies.
It is red and white and/or orange for me.
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I'd quit if my boss wanted me to drive something like that. I mean...how in the hell could you hide out at the beer joint driving something like that?

Have they no humanity??!!

So, are they engineers and Surveyors or lawyers and Surveyors?

Are you alright with purple ?

..asking for a friend.

Nasty people. They shouldn't pull visual jokes on a nice guy with a vision problem.

Reminds me a bit of a sunburned zebra I saw on vacation once.

Stacy Carroll, post: 442901, member: 150 wrote: Anyone else find that a little odd?

Well, I'm going to go out on a limb and say that you could probably leave the keys in the ignition switch of that one and never worry about it being stolen unless you were working in some place where the cars driven by Mary Kay cosmetics distributors were very common.

I'm guessing that is a Lowe Engineering rig. Pretty big firm out of Atlanta. All their vehicles are zebra striped. They do a lot of COE and other work in Louisiana. A lot of hydro surveys and their survey hydro boats are zebra striped too.
They keep an office in Robert, Louisiana which is about 10 mikes from here.

http://loweengineers.com/why-stripes/

Robert Hill, post: 442923, member: 378 wrote: I'm guessing that is a Lowe Engineering rig. Pretty big firm out of Atlanta. All their vehicles are zebra striped. They do a lot of COE and other work in Louisiana. A lot of hydro surveys and their survey hydro boats are zebra striped too.
They keep an office in Robert, Louisiana which is about 10 mikes from here.

http://loweengineers.com/why-stripes/

Another triumph of marketing. I wonder if the pink stripes are a rebranding effort to distinguish themselves from all of the other zebra surveying truck impersonators who may have sprung up.

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Purple would make me think that a grape soda may be involved and I could live with that.
In the 1960s I saw a '57 Chevy with a custom paint job with a base of white covered with 1/4 inch wide purple sparkle of interlocking knots and swirls leaving about 1/8 inch white showing that at a distance created an image that popped when in light of day or other source and was quite impressive, it was signed "by St Ives" in a bottom corner of the trunk.

Hot Pink always makes me think of disco, pimps, glow in the dark lipstick and the movie "Woo".

I've seen the zebra striped Lowe trucks, but this is a new one for me too!

There was a reese hitch on one of my work trucks that claimed many a shin bone. One of the guys painted the hitch and ball bright pink so as to warn the poor soul getting equipment out that there was a shin breaker there. That helped the shin problem but presented another. About once a week a random pickup would follow them back to the office. It seems some drivers fixated on the pretty color and went into a trance and would have likely followed them right off a cliff.

Kent McMillan, post: 442921, member: 3 wrote: Well, I'm going to go out on a limb and say that you could probably leave the keys in the ignition switch of that one and never worry about it being stolen unless you were working in some place where the cars driven by Mary Kay cosmetics distributors were very common.

Particularly if it had a manual transmission. This week in Birmingham a carjacker was stymied because the young punk couldn't drive one. He ditched the car and owner's wallet and ran but was caught.

The number of people who can drive a manual transmission is dwindling rapidly. One car I learned how to drive on had a manual (aka "standard" when I'm feeling old). My brother still drives a manual and both of his kids were taught as well.

I haven't driven a manual for over 16 years now, but confident I could fall right back into it.

Even further sidetrack: I am old enough to remember the days when things like power steering and A/C (among other items) were options. When one could check off the options one wanted on a sheet before the car was ordered. Mind you, I did not say I was old enough to drive then, just that I remember those days.

John, post: 443026, member: 791 wrote: The number of people who can drive a manual transmission is dwindling rapidly. One car I learned how to drive on had a manual (aka "standard" when I'm feeling old). My brother still drives a manual and both of his kids were taught as well.

I haven't driven a manual for over 16 years now, but confident I could fall right back into it.

Even further sidetrack: I am old enough to remember the days when things like power steering and A/C (among other items) were options. When one could check off the options one wanted on a sheet before the car was ordered. Mind you, I did not say I was old enough to drive then, just that I remember those days.

I've been driving for over 50 years now, and don't recall off the top of my head how many cars/trucks that I have owned over those years. I DO however KNOW, that I have NEVER owned a vehicle with an automatic (slush box) transmission, and never will.

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Loyal

Loyal, post: 443036, member: 228 wrote: I've been driving for over 50 years now, and don't recall off the top of my head how many cars/trucks that I have owned over those years. I DO however KNOW, that I have NEVER owned a vehicle with an automatic (slush box) transmission, and never will.

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Loyal

There was one primary reason I decided to switch to automatic transmissions. I got very tire of having to go in to and out of first gear on 95 between my place and my brother's house (on Thanksgiving). For many miles at a time, first gear, neutral, first, neutral my left leg and right arm were getting tired. If I could have gotten up and running in the same gear for more than 10 feet at a time, I would likely still have a manual 🙂

Suspect it's in honor of breast cancer awareness?

I had a hooters girl that was going to come work for me. I toyed with the thought of being the hooters of construction staking.

I'm sure (positive) I've shared this before, but here goes anyway. There is a small ditch digging company (for utilities), woman owned. Name of the company was Busy Ditch. Honest. As proof, here is their web site: http://www.busyditch.com/

Loyal, post: 443036, member: 228 wrote: I've been driving for over 50 years now, and don't recall off the top of my head how many cars/trucks that I have owned over those years. I DO however KNOW, that I have NEVER owned a vehicle with an automatic (slush box) transmission, and never will.

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Loyal

I've owned both manual and automatic over the years. My favorite was a 1996 Mustang GT convertible. Boy was it fun running through the gears in that thing but sadly it became a victim of divorce a few years ago.