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<blockquote data-quote="x1heavy" data-source="post: 2550375" data-attributes="member: 97095">I have had to go into Canada. Metric is not hard to come by. For example you are on the queens highway in Ontario coming up on a bridge signed 3.80 meters. Hmmm... at 70 mph thats not the time to be learning metric. 13 feet 6 inches high comes out to right about 4.11 meters. Thats the number that matters.Along with a bit of french. Nord. Sud etc. Ugh. And german, and a bit of spanish (They laugh so hard... call me arnie... ugh) and lord knows what other words I need in different places in North America.I can switch between F and C in temperature or any other unit of measure, just did not think on it here in America talking to say Finland. I am sorry if there was trouble either way. It really becomes heavy lifting when engineers break into say... Poundsnewton Force in truck or train engines producing kilowatt of power. Hum.. what is that in American Horse power like we use in our CAT engine? Or torque etc. Just getting some of them to be speaking plain is tough.ONCE in a great while we have had royal screwups on paper when instructions failed to specify some form of measurement in temperature etc. It can and will lead to some VERY expensive and regretful mistakes that is chargeable to someone when 22200 kilogram of product is ruined. (Or US 49000 pounds of cargo) =)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="x1heavy, post: 2550375, member: 97095"] I have had to go into Canada. Metric is not hard to come by. For example you are on the queens highway in Ontario coming up on a bridge signed 3.80 meters. Hmmm... at 70 mph thats not the time to be learning metric. 13 feet 6 inches high comes out to right about 4.11 meters. Thats the number that matters. Along with a bit of french. Nord. Sud etc. Ugh. And german, and a bit of spanish (They laugh so hard... call me arnie... ugh) and lord knows what other words I need in different places in North America. I can switch between F and C in temperature or any other unit of measure, just did not think on it here in America talking to say Finland. I am sorry if there was trouble either way. It really becomes heavy lifting when engineers break into say... Poundsnewton Force in truck or train engines producing kilowatt of power. Hum.. what is that in American Horse power like we use in our CAT engine? Or torque etc. Just getting some of them to be speaking plain is tough. ONCE in a great while we have had royal screwups on paper when instructions failed to specify some form of measurement in temperature etc. It can and will lead to some VERY expensive and regretful mistakes that is chargeable to someone when 22200 kilogram of product is ruined. (Or US 49000 pounds of cargo) =) [/QUOTE]

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