Can you repeat in english please 
@Deadsquid I’d get out of there asap 
Ya gotta be old to know where these scifl-fi props are from…
The show from the 60s…
Replicas of these are a future build project and I’m damn sure I’ll be able to make the centre one a gel blaster.
To be fair to @shadow187 night shifts are where the cash is for traffic controllers, even more when you bump up into the big rolling crash barriers aka scorpion attenuators trucks, brother worked them for a while and he got paid well.
Great youtube short on them
I’m gonna get myself a little tinny and move out to the ocean no laws out there and no government bs 
Master chiefs m60 20char
Lifejacket and license sir. You can borrow mine I have both. We look about the same age
Yeah I drive TMA’s from time to time, but honestly, the money’s not that great. The good Traffic controllers that know their shit and are highly experienced and are up front doing the majority share of the physical work the majority of the time doing massive lane closures out of a ute, not a pod truck, like myself, are not paid anywhere near enough for the amount of work we do nor compensated for the dangers involved working in high speed traffic less than foot from traffic doing in excess of 110kmph as I do most nights.
Guys like that one in the earlier post make it very hard to sway public opinion in our favour, tc’s like that make the rest of us that do their job properly look bad and we suffer for their actions in the way of shit wages and constant disrespect and abuse from the general public
Unless you work on union jobs on union wages, the pay isn’t as good as you might think unfortunately
Driving the TMA’s, it’s not a matter of IF you get hit, it’s WHEN you get hit. If you drive them long enough, eventually you’ll likely get impacted and depending on what hits you, you may or may not walk away. A B double that hasn’t slowed down to the reduced speed limit we put in place, if it hits the TMA, the TMA is getting tossed like a rag doll and the driver would be lucky to walk away.
I know TMA drivers that have been hit, one that’s been hit 5 times. Each time he has said it would be his last but he keeps getting back in it. And it’s definitely not worth the extra $5.50 an hour to drive the TMA on top of the chump change we get as a TMI ute driver… you can do everything correctly and follow procedures to the letter, but all it takes is one drunk fuckwit, or wanker on their phone and it could all be over in a flash whether you’re on the ground or in the TMA
It’s a dangerous job and you take a risk every time you step out on that motorway or any road for that matter
I hear ya, and when I see the signs, I slow down to the recommended speed, then some fuckwit blows past me at 140klm/hr in the restricted works zone. 
When they did the nearby main bitumen drag up it was a Victorian private company. They did a great job, had escort vehicles or what that term is. Very friendly. Stop at the roadworks stop lights and escort vehicle lead you up on one side of the road that was in progress of getting resurfaced. They were really professional and the road is really good, rolling the plastic out 2 guys running in front of the layer machine then lay the bitumen on top. Sorry don’t know the proper names for equipment and process. That was a linehaul(main semi truck route) that carries a lot of tonnage and was well overdue as the semis blow the side out and it crumbles away along with the dirt. It’s finally not too bad at all.
Heaps of accidents on that stretch, semis get the sway up and dip the trailer in the dirt then wop a car in the other lane sending it into the scrub. Even saw a Semi had a front tyre blow out, greenies would have been pissed as that mowed down a huge patch of trees on the side of the road
The reason I posted that pic wasn’t to have a go at traffic controllers. It was more a question of “why put that pic in the story in the first place, and then put a disclaimer underneath?” People will see the photo and react to it, not the words underneath. Typical of the so-called “journalists” we have these days.
Amen to that it is really shocking. I just read it for a laugh now and again at how bad they can’t spell and make hysteria out of not what actually happened.
All good mate, wasn’t having a go at you just having a bit of a vent. It’s quite frustrating for me working in the industry as I find myself surrounded by those sorts of lazy tc’s quite often and I’m frequently having to pick up their slack. Either that or I’m having a go at them for their poor work ethic and then I’m the one in the dog house because I’ve told them off. Lol. My comments weren’t aimed at you directly, my bad
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No problem, I should have made that clear in the original post.
I understand your situation, a bloke I used to work with ended up doing traffic control, and some of the stories he told me - sheeiit!!
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Just sack em like I did If they won’t follow leadership. 1,2,3 Door
All the managers and directors can complain about is need a replacement. Well fk your meeting I’ve got one on order and why I can’t come as I am working on the line to get shit done. Oh don’t talk to me like that.
I said go on, sack me then see if I give two fucks Director scrambled away.
@DocBob how’s this one 
Slipknot 20 characters
My favourite…
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Ooh… Slipknot… not a big fan. 
Now, Disturbed on the other hand…
Still thumps 25 years later. 
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Another ripper I guess I have a very broad taste as I like Kylie Minogue as well
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What’s not to like?? 
Like going back to this one as well
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Funny when you google the meanings of gun related acronyms.
ACR came back with “Advanced Combat Rifle”… fair enough.
ACOG came back with " American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. 
Ooopsie!
For those unfamiliar, ACOG’s firearm related meaning is “Advanced Combat Optical Gunsight”