[TheForge] qualifies as steel at work

[Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer]

On Jan 18, 2015, at 8:09 PM, Mark A. Pesetsky <pesetsky at Princeton.EDU> wrote:

Same thing happened to me. The woman's van was totaled. She hit me at 40-45mph


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Date:01/18/2015 11:01 PM (GMT-05:00)
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Subject: Re: [TheForge] qualifies as steel at work

Yep. Just weighed it Saturday. 8050 lbs. 2007.5 Ram diesel.  Get 24 mpg empty and don't worry a lot about being hit. I was hit one morning from behind in my last dodge ram at a light. I spilled my coffee. They towed the other pickup and it's driver away.

> On Jan 18, 2015, at 6:05 PM, ries niemi <ries at riesniemi.com> wrote:
> 
> Really? an 8000 lb truck? and you drive it 80 miles round trip?
> My pickup weighs a measly 4288lbs, and I drive it maybe once every week. Only when I need the 8 foot bed. Otherwise, I drive a much lighter vehcile that gets 30 mpg.
> 
> ries
> 
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>> On Jan 18, 2015, at 10:53 PM, Craig S <calvinjean2 at comcast.net> wrote:
>> 
>> A TON of steel?   This is the reason I commute 40 miles to work each day in a FOUR ton pickup.
>> 
>> Craig
>> 
>> -----Original Message----- From: Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer
>> Sent: Sunday, January 18, 2015 5:45 PM
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>> This is the reason we drive around in a ton of steel.
>> 
>> http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2015/01/18/inches-from-death-in-a-26-car-pileup-an-oregon-man-cant-believe-hes-alive/?hpid=z5
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