10-24-2015, 01:07 AM | #31 |
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And it took three days to get the grin off Ben's face.
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10-24-2015, 05:38 AM | #32 |
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I'd like to know what happend to the driver of the truck.
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10-24-2015, 05:47 PM | #33 |
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Nothing. No harm, no foul. He truly didn't know he had a passenger. His company bought the chair guy new tires and they all had a good laugh.......much later.
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10-24-2015, 06:00 PM | #34 |
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That's one hellofa wheelchair to survive all that.
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I remember having a DOT guy check my bucket truck. He told me "See all these lights on your chip box?" "Yeah?" "Fix them, or remove them." "Really?" "I can park you if you like..."
I spent the rest of the day removing lights.
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11-27-2015, 04:02 PM | #37 |
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They have the power, you can't argue, whine or appeal.
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11-27-2015, 05:05 PM | #38 |
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All true.
I have been to a mine. Yes to the safety stuff and silly training video. All of it. I even had to go and put on my steel toed boots to not leave my cab. DOT can be real a-holes sometimes. Sometimes not. It truly depends on whom you are facing and what kind of day they are having. |
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Trucking as an occupation is hard. It's not just a job, usually, it's a whole lifestyle.
There are many reasons for the driver turnover situation, which is probably worse than that report says. Low wages, crap miles, thoughtless dispatchers, aggressive police, insane traffic and shippers/consignees who have no respect for you or your time. And those are only the easy ones. Most new drivers only stay for a year or two, until they find something better. We call em "meat in a seat". (Yes, we like rhymes) Autonomous driving trucks will not replace a skilled driver. There are just too many variables to consider for a computer to do the job. And I'd like to see one find a parking spot and back in! only THEN will computers replace drivers. Pam |
12-09-2015, 11:13 PM | #41 |
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There's a lot more than shifting and steering, anticipation, that sixth sense to know when the shit might hit the fan, and what to do about it.
I can see autonomous trucks traveling superhighways between special terminals like some places did with the tandem trailers, but in congested areas with unpredictable people doing crazy shit, nope. Gotta have some poor bastard to blame so the company can wash their hands.
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I can see them maybe working on a superhighway if and only if they are running in a dedicated, protected lane. No cars allowed. Volvo is experimenting with "platooning". Platooning reduces aerodynamic drag by grouping vehicles together and safely decreasing the distance between them via electronic coupling, which allows multiple vehicles to accelerate or brake simultaneously.
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Backing into a complicated spot is one of the easiest things a computerized vehicle can do.
You know what it can't do to save its life? Pick the spot. It can't take directions from the warehouse traffic manager on which bay to back into. It probably can't handle it if you tell it to wait 15 minutes for something to open up. It can't follow hand-waving directions at all. It can't make on-the-spot decisions. Its main way of dealing with anything confusing will be to stop. An open parking lot is like the worst possible scenario. Do we follow the lines? Can we see the lines? That's what I imagine anyway just from reading a little bit about it I'm no expert |
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I think that little knob on the dash board would just confuse me. And make it harder to maneuver.
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