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Why Driving Behind Chinese Trucks May Be Hazardous To Your Health
In one of the greatest analogies for China's slow-moving, pollution-puking economy, the impact of this small bump in the road sums up the fragility of the credit-fueled slow-motion truck-wreck that the central planners have created...
...and then the wheels fell off...
And there are some 'crashes' that just cannot be manipulated back together again.
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Cheap Chinese axles. I thought they only exported those to America.
HO LI TRUCK!
Made in China.
It has taken our company quite some time to find Chinese bearings (and hub assemblies) that are good for Peru at a decent price. My guess is that there is overcapacity in the Chinese bearing industry. That is good for our customers in Peru, not so good for everyone else.
Do chen? That you?
I think so. I never said anything because I did not want to out em. ;-P
Ask em if he used to drink absinthe and see things in an altered state of green consciousness.
Go ahead, ask.
I'll wait here.
Lol.
Also, there was only one other person I can recall that had ever cared about the Peruvian ball bearing market. Unless there's some lucrative profits to be made flipping bearings down there and everyone is doing it like flipping houses, I've got money on DCRB.
Hard to completely quit the Hedge...
...but China will rule the (financial) world with their gold and clever central planning, right?
Wake up folks! They can't even build a truck...
China bad / joomerica GREAT!
NY wheels fall off joomerican truck. joomerican lawyers start to circle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGQegRo0yOU
I thought you "chose" those people?
Just goes to show just how screwed we are when god takes a shot at the chosen ones...
...but China will rule the (financial) world with their gold and clever central planning, right?
Wake up folks! They can't even build a truck...
Is anyone besides me old enough to remember the "quality" level of American cars in the 60's and 70's? I owned several...I remember. Japan made an export market in the US for its cars thanks to their cars actually working, and that is in large part due to the efforts of one W. Edwards Deming.
...but China will rule the (financial) world with their gold and clever central planning, right?
Wake up folks! They can't even build a truck..
When you are coming into a strange town, at night, maybe it's a foreign place, with a bad reputation, sometimes it's a good idea to stumble a little bit. Puts the opposition off their guard. They'll think you are drunk and under estimate their task. I'm sure Tsun Tzu said something about it somewhere.
Come on guys, simply a function of being overloaded. Weight not policed like in a "modern" country.
Yup - and as far as gold goes, let me break my axles coming from the coin shop. I no cly at all!
If this is how their military equipment is made, they are defenseless.
I hope there is good video of their first carrier landing.
Jien huo, wo cao!
I suspect stuff manufactured for the PLA is backed by the family lungs, hearts and kidneys of the factory owner and whoever built the item (unless the owner of the factory is really high up in the Party).
China also makes Apple phones
& most of your hi-end electronics
They can only build these things if someone from the US or Europe tells them how to do it. Then the Chinese will steal the blueprints and copy the design.
Anything they will have to come up with themselves, or anything which is subject to their own corrupt 'quality and design checks' will collapse, from trucks to housing and stock exchange bubbles.
hey, think of it this way; when was the last time you saw invented in china or africa.
see, it is simple -the dumb fuks copy and europeans invent, russia included. the rest of the modern world tags along. way it is, just sayin...
That's hillarious. China never invented anything? Lau Tzu is laughing too.
Hey Cog, Trust me, the good stuff comes over here. The crappiest stuff stays over there. This is a huge problem and there is a demand for stuff made or produced (food) in the US. We had lunch with a retired broker and through the translator he told us that the quality of domestic goods in China was a major issue that must be solved in order for them to transition to a consumer driven economy. When we heard that they will manufacture their own commercial airliners we shuddered at the thought. BTW, I went off the mt. and saw The Big Short today. Most of the folks were "mad as hell" when they left the theater.
I could not finish watching Inside Job, because I knew, and know, nothing has been resolved, only literally papered over.
I live in China and I have noticed the opposite. Walmart and other American retailers set the specs for the merchandise they want to buy, not the manufacturer in China. They buy the bottom of the line cheapest crap to sell to Americans. When I bought my home over here, it was a shell. That is how new homes are sold. Another 20% is needed to finish it. I was surprised by the quality and style of finishes, appliances, fixtures, and furniture. Therre is a huge industry in place to custom finish new homes. They don't export this stuff to America. Also, China makes BMW. Audi, Cadilllac, Benz, Range Rover, Jaguar and a lot of other luxury cars here.
Your broker friend is out of touch.
You should consider posting occasionally on bloombergview.
There's one called iseheijiro who is always totally aggressive against anything Chinese. (Everybody hates China and Chinese, he says.) He's an anti-China Japanese troll, and deserves more than one wrap over the knuckles.
There's also a garyoptica - each and every topic is about how bad Putin is. There's a hole in the bucket? Putin!
There's also a zygmnt, old Polish guy who said that Russia should disappear (sic). That old geezer needs to have his stupidity thrown back into his face.
All of them are ill mannered, so when your day (plural, for others as well)is about letting off steam - there's the opportunity.
You should consider posting occasionally on bloombergview.
There's one called iseheijiro who is always totally aggressive against anything Chinese. (Everybody hates China and Chinese, he says.) He's an anti-China Japanese troll, and deserves more than one wrap over the knuckles.
There's also a garyoptica - each and every topic is about how bad Putin is. There's a hole in the bucket? Putin!
There's also a zygmnt, old Polish guy who said that Russia should disappear (sic). That old geezer needs to have his stupidity thrown back into his face.
All of them are ill mannered, so when your day (plural, for others as well)is about letting off steam - there's the opportunity.
China and Russia are onto the Jews and have taken all their power. There are no Jews in China and there never will be. Bloomberg prints lots of rabid anti-China blather day in and day out. It is mostly false or just plain made up. Thjis does not deter them from their tirade.
BTW, Bloomberg.com is blocked in China. So is the New York Times. And all things Google. And Facebook. And Twitter. All Jewish media.
I too lived in China.
China can make whatever you want. I bought a $2.85 valve, it was like a Swiss watch. It said "Made to specification for the ...... company". All their machinery is state of the art. They will sell you whatever you want. From cheap crap to AAA diamond grade. USA doesn't have much of anything to sell anymore, except bullshit on TV.
It's no wonder why so many hate America when they see our idiotic "reality" TV shows. They're basically working so they can go home and watch us fuck around. Don't see that lasting. Oh wait, that helps feed the MIC. America primarly exports bullshit, propaganda, and weapons these days. I'm pretty ashamed to have been born here to be honest. Look what we've become just in my 26 years, back in the 1980s shortly before I was born the AT&T monopoly was broken up by the government, roughly 20 years later the government forces consolidation of banks which are arguably more important than the telephone network to society. What the fuck is that shit?
Absolutely right.
I was on a mining project where all the material handling equipment (several hundred million dollars worth) was designed in Germany by a very well known German firm, and all the manufacturing was done in China to german standards, including steel and welding standards. All the welders were internationally certified, and all the products were German inspected and approved. Some things like critical bearings and electronic controls were specified as Euro, Japanese, or North American components, everthing else was Chinese.
Buyers go to China and want to buy a widget. They don't go and buy the best widget, they say they want the best widget they can get, but that it only cost 7 cents. So the manufacturers give them the best 7 cent widget. But a world class manufactured wideget would cost 12 cents, but the buyers aren't willing to pay that much.
Good to hear you and the Mrs aired yourself out and visited civilization. Once a year whether you need it or not is my motto. By the way, our Christmas wreath was hung on the porch as soon as we returned home. And Mrs. Cog has gone full blown Kefir and is already talking about spreading the wealth.
I have been reading that the response to the movie has been 'interesting' to say the least. If only that anger would translate into withdrawal in order to starve the beast. Sadly those who are angry also know they are dependent upon the beast. I suspect much of the anger comes from feeling cheated and trapped, not to mention severely impotent.
LOL. My fling with civilization was over by 7:30 and I was safely back up here. Starving the beast is the only option. I'm doing it as hard as I can. The movie was interesting and the focus on criminality was refreshing. The Sunday afternoon crowd was mostly in their 50's-60's. I spoke with a few of them. They lost a lot in their 401k's and they are pissed that nothing has changed and nobody went to jail.
After WW2 the US dominated all technology segments and industries. Now the US dominates no technology sector and its competitiveness is in freefall. The US has made a fatal error in ‘transferring’ its productive capacity and creating not only a rival superpower in China but making up for the ‘productive gap’ via the continued creation of debt.
The wheels must be the same as on the Hillary 2016 Campaign.
"The wheels must be the same as on the Hillary 2016 Campaign."
You mean 'the Hillarious 2016 Campaign.'
It kinda looks staged given how much distance the driver put between himself and the truck before everything fell apart - but probably not. ... maybe the driver heard something before seeing the thing fall apart.
Or perhaps the driver expected an all-consuming explosion!
Its the bolts and screws that hold the tires on. The same kind they export to the US for aircraft manufacturing.
That axle snapped. Looks like the brake drum is still there so the dual wheel assembly is still intact.
Yep, real clear at the end when you get a got shot of the inside of the rear wheel pair - that fresh metal look of the axle - it just broke, fairly cleanly at that.
Perhaps the axle was not ultruonically tested before put in service?
http://www.olympus-ims.com/en/applications/ultrasonic-testing-foundry-in...
Not "cheap", that's not PC. Shame on you! The correct term is "Materially challenged." We will also accept "metallurgically disadvantaged." One could also call the axle "designed for quick wheel removal." But never cheap!
Another fine GM product.
Still safer than a Pinto:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dT0J0rcJTLo
Gm knew the axles were bad and the CEO said" just put then in anyway"
I received an email from Gm just before xmas hence I bought a new truck from them a few years ago....I replied with " I will never Buy a new GM CEO approved junk again".
It looks the they drove it until the wheels fell off. Sounds kinda familiar.
He says his friends pray prank, roosen rug nuts. hahahaha! Prenty frunny!
Wise old Chinese saying....
Man who run in front of truck get tired.....
Man who run behind truck get exhausted.....
Man who stand on toilet, high on pot.
Man who fart in church sit in own pew.
Man who cooks carrots and peas in same pot very unsanitary.
I've heard "it just fell apart" before, but that's gotta be some kind of record.
Sum Ting Wong with that truck!
If you could barely open your eyes you might miss a lug nut or two yourself.
Jeez Looeeeez..
Ship the whole truck to Mexico, they will buy it no problem.
Back in 1985, I had the same thing happen to me when I was driving an American made reefer truck.
It was full of ice cream, not reefers.
Well, there's the goddamn problem, right there.
I was hauling a load of rocks in my 1941 Chevy 3/4 ton pu with 300,000 + miles on it through the woods when one side of the rear axle broke and started sliding out. Jacked it up to take a look at what the hell happened. There must have been a flaw in the shaft that had been slowly twisting for years (I drove it from 1972-2005). Fortunately I was only going 10 MPH on an old logging road. I didn't bother to see if a recall had been issued for it, just installed a slightly used one. Finally sold it when I lost the garage in a divorce and fuel at 11 Miles per gallon just didn't seem right.
Remember when pretentious dolt Al Gore was touting China's great record on the environment? Somehow the U.S. media never seems to throw that back in his face. But I'm sure he'll never be catastrophically wrong again and we should all do exactly as he says, though not as he himself does.
You cross Al Gore's palm with silver so he can tell his fortune
2 much from ZH. Just nut holding wheel hub to axle get lose and wheel asembly got out so truck felt on axle. Cause could be broken bearing. This is common for all vehicles worlwide. It is nothing new or specific to china. ZH want to fill mpt space?
But it didn't used to be "common". So what changed? Greed?
Speaking of metaphorical videos,
here is one illustrating collapses:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvcGM6maGGk
Exploding iceberg in Antarctica!
Bit by bit, the people that control the people that control the government of the USA have been hollowing the system out. They appear to want to destroy the republic, and they are clearly succeeding in doing so. I can not think of anything but implausible series of political miracles that could change the path that we are on … therefore, there MUST come some time in the future when that little video linked above is a good metaphor for what finally has to happen ...
However, the difference is that the collapse of the American economic system is on an astronomically amplified scale, with consequences that are quite impossible to imagine. (I also think that there are correlations between nature going nuts, at the same time as civilization goes crazy.)
Very rapidly, a system was built of global electronic fiat money fraud, backed up by the threat of force from atomic weapons. The collapse of a system of that ASTRONOMICAL SIZE no longer fits within any kind of common sense comprehension. The ratios of physical collateral to the debts those are supposed to be related to have exceeded 1 to 100, and are headed towards becoming such that the physical collateral to back up the debts could become 1 to 1,000. We are looking at the magnification of lies, backed by violence, by billions and trillions of times, … until the collapse into chaos of such an incomprehensible system is a psychotic breakdown somewhere around quadrillions of times more insane than we can actually imagine.
The magnitude of the triumph of the frauds, backed up with violence, due to the vicious spirals of POLITICAL FUNDING ENFORCING FRAUDS that built the currently established systems, seem to have become the only thing keeping them going … Nobody can imagine what happens after the American Dollar and American Military became like flying unicorns and dragons, whose sheer unintelligibility was the only thing keeping them in the air. Those have outdone old Orwellian ideas by several orders of magnitude. For instance, the secretive ESF, Exchange Stabilization Fund, that appears to be behind the five biggest banks holding hundreds of trillions of units of whatever the hell their derivatives complexes represent, have systematically stabilized a pyramid scheme, house of cards, to be able to built up & UP, until it went over the dark side of the moon.
Meanwhile, China was forced to adapt to the superiority of Western technology, and did so by embracing what we developed, to the degree that the Chinese exceeded what we were doing, in the sense that the Chinese created several times more "money" out of nothing as debts than Americans were doing. Indeed, "there are some 'crashes' that just cannot be manipulated back together again" and the 'crashes' of globalized systems of electronic frauds backed by the threat of force from atomic bombs appears to be the most overwhelming kind of 'crashes' into crazy collapses that there have ever been ...
That 90 second long video I linked above illustrated how economic collapses may happen in the foreseeable future, with the entire system being gradually hollowed out, bit by bit, while it still stands ... until some point is reached where the gradual becomes much more rapid!
Chinese economy will win
& West will only sell whores
one day
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Man calling daughter from Manhattan or Milan : 'What you made this week'
Daughter from Shanghai : 'Only 700 euros'
Man : 'Send half fast , we are starving'
Daughter : 'I will do my best next week'
Man : 'Gawd bless you'
Chinese truck driven by Polish driver with Class "C" licence for HGV.......
I used to work for a bus company in upstate NY. Our tires used to fall off yearly. LOL one time the tire from the rear passed the bus it fell off down main street.
The video is a good metaphor, but that truck could have collapsed for reasons that have nothing to do with manufacturing quality. As a case in point, I once had the rear axle come out of its housing. A few months earlier, I was driving through a street that was flooded to a level above the axle housing. Water got through the bearing seals causing rust.
Wow......You'd think with that much water your differential would have boiled and seized up before it rusted the clips? Must have been made in red commie china from crap pressed steel.
Wait...what? It didn't seize up.
Machanical failure is so so much worse than vodka induced failure. Is that correct ZH ?
Relax, no wheels on an iPhone.
If you ever saw the way they overload trucks in China, you would wonder why this doesn't happen every day. Scale "family of four on a moped" up to a huge dump truck full of rocks.
My favorite is watching the 135 foot long car carriers trying to navigate turns in rush hour traffic.
Coming soon to a crash site near you: Chinee frying car! (You've seen us drive, now watch us fry!)
I'll propose a propitious combination of microstructure, stress raiser, and metallic fatigue.
Something to be said for molten steel rather than heated up and pressed shavings. Same thing they make wrenches out of now. They say if it breaks just bring it back and we'll replace it but that doesnt do you any good when your in the middle of nowhere + its time out of your life replacing something intended to break that you paid good money for.
lol (good money)