Got on with Averitt. Got a few questions to drivers.

Being a hobbyist would imply one participates in a hobby such as building model airplanes or collecting stamps, not having a preference for operating certain types of equipment. In most cases, operating a vehicle is an occupation, or a necessary means of transportation, especially folks in rural areas.

I don't call myself a supertrucker, which you seem to use as a derogatory term, but yes, I am one of those guys that complained about the advent of elogs. I was also complaining in 1992 when the CDL was imposed, along with mandatory drug testing, neither of which accomplished anything except add additional operating expenses to feed an ever growing Federal bureaucracy. And although I was a few years away from being a trucker, I complained about the Federally mandated 55MPH nationwide speed limit.

Although I grew up in an era when it was the norm for teenagers to change the oil in their cars as well as repair them and learn how to drive big trucks when driving schools were a rarity, that doesn't mean I am opposed to technological advances. It just means I grew up being a hands on guy who was outside engaged in physical activity rather than playing video games with joy sticks.

I've worked for plenty of Big Bubbas, as you call them, and most of them are decent folks. They will be missed by many of us who enjoyed the days of doing west coast turns without somebody virtually looking over our shoulder.

 

i dont where you come up with the idea that automatics are cheaper thats not the case it still has alot of componets in it that seem to go bad more often and they are harder to work on cuasing more down time for truck

 

Especially that centrifugal clutch. All of our Cascadias will heat up in a minute backing up the slightest grade and even worse with some weight in the wagon.
I got hot going forward once in a stop and go traffic jam. If it goes too long it will shut you down and you have no choice but to sit there and block traffic.

I had one go out in the middle of a busy intersection with a cop raising hell out me and finally had to get a wrecker.

 

And the programming in the Volvos will get weird, locking you into high gear. All you can do is hope you can find a place to coast to the side of the road and sit there for five minutes waiting on it to reset.

 

mustang i run out of the win terminal i had a cascadia and would get hot just backing to a dock,now i have volvo a little better gets hung up and wont shift so i have to do it manually.just bring back the 10,13 speeds ill be happy but that wont happen.i think many companies are switching because so many new drivers dont know how to shift without tearing the trans up

 

Oh you miss the "Good Old Days" when drivers could drive 120 hours a week and lie on their logbooks and who cares if they fall asleep and run over a family right? Oh you miss the "good old days" when drivers didn't have to be drug tested and they could pop speed all night to stay awake and drink some whisky in the truck stop cause nobody was watching. You miss the days before CDL's when a driver could get drunk in texas and kill five people in an accident and then go get a license in TN and get drunk again and kill a few more people because there was no one "Looking over his shoulder." Ah yes the good old days of trucking................

 

Now you're putting words in my mouth. Just because a person has the freedom to do their job without big brother sticking a microphone and a camera in the truck and up their ### doesn't mean they will behave like a criminal. Most of us have a sense of personal responsibility that doesn't require the government holding our hand.

I don't know who put the insane idea in your head that we were all a bunch of wild alcoholics. Nobody was out here committing vehicular homicide and going unpunished. That is a highly irresponsible assertion. I have over 33 years of safe driving to back up my opinions. Why don't you share your background and/or qualifications with us? I bet you gleaned your vast knowledge from the internet or from some washed up driving school instructor who couldn't hack it out here with the real truckers.

Btw, the multiple drivers license thing is highly exaggerated. The CDL is not a Federal license. It is issued by your home state and we had the technology to check for multiple licensing without creating another costly, unnecessary government agency.

I'm wasting my time talking to you anyway. I bet you are in your 20s and have the world all figured out.

 

well said just another smart ### think he knows everthing probably has never had a job

 

What do you road test in auto or manual??

 

That's right big macho man supertrucker.