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re: Truck Drivers Say They Won’t Deliver To Cities with Defunded Police Departments
Posted on 6/13/20 at 6:08 am to trinidadtiger
Posted on 6/13/20 at 6:08 am to trinidadtiger
Harder to break the windshield out of a cab-over rig. No hood to stand on.
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Posted on 6/13/20 at 6:17 am to Tigerhalen
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Or a beer truck.
In Louisiana, if an outlet buys alcohol from a distributor they have to pay cash. In the days before cashless transactions, you drove a beer truck full of alcohol and cash.
The route that covered the ninth ward, it did no good to have armed security. We used to "rent" a cop car and two cops to follow the truck to each stop, get out with guns and guard the deliveries.
Sidenote, one of the guys we used each week was really nice. He was on a raid on a crack house and his brother (also a cop) was listening on the radio at the precinct to the bust. He said his brother said they were going in....then gunshots before they even busted down the door and knew his fellow cops would not be shooting first. Next thing he heard was another cop talking to his brother...hold on, help is on the way, just hold on. Bullet caught him right above his vest, shattered his artery and he died. Had not thought about that in year, good policeman, great guy.
Posted on 6/13/20 at 6:25 am to WPBTiger
Only ones safe would be the guys hauling books to libraries or school supplies.
Posted on 6/13/20 at 6:54 am to MexicanTiger97
The first time a truck is attacked and raided, and the driver is injured or killed, will be the last truck delivery to any of these radical left cities. Cities need truckers for deliveries and truckers need the police to deliver. Figure it out idiots.
Posted on 6/13/20 at 6:56 am to LSUconvert
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Do you think private companies wont hire their own security?
They would have to hire an army. A few security personnel won't cut it.
This post was edited on 6/13/20 at 7:11 am
Posted on 6/13/20 at 7:39 am to mightyMick
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The first time a truck is attacked and raided, and the driver is injured or killed, will be the last truck delivery to any of these radical left cities. Cities need truckers for deliveries and truckers need the police to deliver. Figure it out idiots.
Venezuela Truck Mad Max Hijack
Of course, I think its hilarious people actually think the big stores in these animalvilles will actually be even open to take the delivery to start without the police.
Posted on 6/13/20 at 7:41 am to Tiguar
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There won’t be driverless trucks before there are pilotless planes that transport people/cargo.
We’ve had that tech for years and still won’t do it.
It’s already happening.
The biggest difference between planes and trucks is the landing. Planes now can takeoff and fly without pilots but haven’t gotten the landing figured out.
Automated trucks are already being used. There is a mining company in Australia that uses driverless trucks to haul resources from the site to its warehouses.
The tech is pretty far advanced. It’s not perfect yet but it won’t be long.
It’s just something the modernized world is going to have to deal with soon. Conservatives are going to have to adjust some of their views because these values, which have been accurate up to this point, won’t be realistic moving forward.
Posted on 6/13/20 at 7:45 am to WPBTiger
#StandforTruckers
Posted on 6/13/20 at 7:47 am to Antonio Moss
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It’s already happening. The biggest difference between planes and trucks is the landing. Planes now can takeoff and fly without pilots but haven’t gotten the landing figured out. Automated trucks are already being used. There is a mining company in Australia that uses driverless trucks to haul resources from the site to its warehouses. The tech is pretty far advanced. It’s not perfect yet but it won’t be long. It’s just something the modernized world is going to have to deal with soon. Conservatives are going to have to adjust some of their views because these values, which have been accurate up to this point, won’t be realistic moving forward.
Just because trucks are being tested for auto driving doesn't mean its ready for scale. Looking at decades and decades, furthermore, the big rigs are going to have huge issues in the inner cities. Long haul will be first and they'll probably have to make their own roadways. Furthermore, each State and in some case local governments will ban them, there is no universal regulation of them.
Will it change, very long term, sure, but not in your life time at scale.
Its like looking at an IBM computer in 1952 and saying everyone is going to have a personal computer... sure, but it only took 40-50 years to get there.
As far as solving hijacking problems, it doesn't, it actually makes it easier.
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Conservatives are going to have to adjust some of their views because these values, which have been accurate up to this point, won’t be realistic moving forward.
What does trucking have to do conservatives, you're a fricking dumb arse.
The worst part is once everyone figures out they can frick with and do whatever they want to the auto-vehicles meaning pull in front of them, and make them stop anytime they want. Unless they have their own long-haul roads, its very hard to see how this even works.
Hijacking is simple... truck going down the road... you pull in front of it and start slowing down until it has to stop. Free shite.
This post was edited on 6/13/20 at 7:59 am
Posted on 6/13/20 at 7:58 am to Purple Spoon
They’ve read something online about it and are now experts on gardening. They know more about raising crops than any farmer because they know everything. All you do is dig hole, out a seed in and cover it with dirt and water it. How can they fail?
Posted on 6/13/20 at 7:59 am to GeauxFightingTigers1
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What does trucking have to do conservatives, you're a fricking dumb arse.
Truck directly? No.
Massive job loss due to automation? Yes. What happens when 15-25% of available jobs are lost to automation?
It will be no longer enough to sit back and say “just work hard and you can make it” - there will be a substantial portion of our country that will be unemployable regardless of their work ethic. Trucking just happens to be the first industry that will probably fall (or fast food).
And we aren’t 50 years away from automated trucking. Like I said, they are already in use in areas. From a safety and industry efficiency standpoint, they are a no-brained - way less accidents and higher rates of transport.
Compare your IBM example to smart phones - smart phones didn’t exist until around 2007-2008 and now nearly every single person in the country has one.
Posted on 6/13/20 at 8:00 am to FlyingTiger1955
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They’ve read something online about it and are now experts on gardening. They know more about raising crops than any farmer because they know everything. All you do is dig hole, out a seed in and cover it with dirt and water it. How can they fail?
They haven't figured out nobody built an app for it, these pasties would starve to death without Starbucks and Target. LOL
These people are so incapable, they don't even know they don't know. Worse generation in the history of the world, completely useless.
Posted on 6/13/20 at 8:04 am to Antonio Moss
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Massive job loss due to automation? Yes. What happens when 15-25% of available jobs are lost to automation?
Automation has been around since before we were born, of course there is automation. What does that have to do with automation?
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And we aren’t 50 years away from automated trucking. Like I said, they are already in use in areas. From a safety and industry efficiency standpoint, they are a no-brained - way less accidents and higher rates of transport.
Yes you are at scale, you dumb arse. Yes, everything just magically gets fixed in a year, there literally is no regulation on these issues, that along is going to take decades nation wide and some States probably won't even allow it.
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Compare your IBM example to smart phones - smart phones didn’t exist until around 2007-2008 and now nearly every single person in the country has one.
Why is that a comparison, they are just simply smaller computers... and computers were around for about 60-70 years before that. Cellphones don't require huge changes to vehicles code, roadways, etc.
Truckers aren't going away anytime soon son. Of course, you spoken of some many stupid things, its hard to keep track at this point.
And no, automating truckers will not stop hijacking... it will make it trivial to do.
This post was edited on 6/13/20 at 8:07 am
Posted on 6/13/20 at 8:06 am to Antonio Moss
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Antonio Moss
How many 18 wheelers have you ever driven? Give specifics please, Models/engines/Transmissions, etc.. freight you were hauling, areas where you went.
Posted on 6/13/20 at 8:07 am to WPBTiger
Fantastic!
Posted on 6/13/20 at 8:09 am to auggie
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How many 18 wheelers have you ever driven? Give specifics please, Models/engines/Transmissions, etc.. freight you were hauling, areas where you went.
You think that kid can drive a truck?
Posted on 6/13/20 at 8:13 am to GeauxFightingTigers1
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You think that kid can drive a truck?
Of course he can't, he just has all the answers
Posted on 6/13/20 at 8:17 am to GeauxFightingTigers1
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But trucking cut a considerably different figure on a humid Sunday last summer on the Florida turnpike. Starsky Robotics, a tech startup, may have been driving in the right lane, but they passed the competition with 35,000 pounds of steel thundering down a busy highway with nobody behind the wheel. The test was a milestone. Starsky was the first company to put a truck on an open highway without a human on board. Everyone else in the game with the know-how keeps a warm body in the cab as backup. For now, anyway. If you didn't hear about this, you're not alone
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From Florida, hang a left and drive 2000 miles west on I-10 and you'll hit the proving grounds of a company with a fleet of 41 autonomous rigs.
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But some fields are at greater risk than others. Let's focus on one big one: trucking.
Truck drivers may be replaced by automated technology as early as 2027. According to the researchers, artificial intelligence could be maneuvering trucks on the road within the next decade.
"All jobs are being impacted by technological change - some more than others," said Nicholas Wyman, CEO of the Institute for Workplace Skills and Development and author of Job U: How to Find Wealth and Success by Developing the Skills Companies Actually Need. "Driverless trucks are now used extensively in the mining industry and it's certain this technology will impact other parts of transport and distribution."
Posted on 6/13/20 at 8:18 am to Antonio Moss
Until the food replicators are invented, you are going to need truckers to get your food to you.
Posted on 6/13/20 at 8:20 am to auggie
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How many 18 wheelers have you ever driven?
What does that have to do with anything?
I have never piloted a rocket and docked with the ISS. But I know that a computer did it successfully a week ago.
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