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Old 10 May 2008, 12:48 pm
Jeff
 
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Default Re: Plan on driving a new car on a 3000mile highway trip. Bad idea?

Elmo P. Shagnasty wrote:
> In article <HAgVj.72$ll1.48@trndny06>, Jeff <kidsdoc2000@hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>> It's intended to be a car, he drives it like a car, he calls it a car,
>>> it's a car.
>>>

>> You can drive a 18-wheeler like a car if you want. But, it's still a
>> truck.

>
> That doesn't make any sense.
>
> However, these things that you call "trucks" are used as cars, not as
> trucks.
>
> End of story.


They are classified by the government as trucks, have safety
requirements that are different from cars and handle differently than cars.

End of story.

Jeff
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