Rates are crashing and fuel to the moon!

Big Road Skateboard · Aug 10, 2022

D.Tibbitt · Aug 10, 2022

Kenworth6969 said: ↑

nieve, head buried in the sand. Real mature bro.

How about some actual legal examples.

Case one:
Pickup truck carrying the family that suffered the fatal and non-fatal injuries was traveling eastbound the driver–lost control, went through a grassy median “and directly into the path of the Werner unit.”
“Werner’s driver did not receive a citation, and the investigating officers placed no blame on the Werner driver,” the company said in its filing. “The Werner driver was traveling well below the posted speed limit, did not lose control of his tractor-trailer, and even brought the unit to a controlled stop after the impact.”

Werner driver NOT at fault, yet Werner was sued for 90 million dollars and lost.
Even though the pick up truck lost control and went across the median and into oncoming traffic lawyers as usual find anyway to blame to sue the truck driver and win.

Read about it here.
Jury verdict against Werner for Texas fatal crash is the biggest in company history

Here is another horrific example
In May 2020, a passenger vehicle traveling on I-30 near Sulphur Springs, Texas, stopped in the travel lane of the highway at approximately 5 a.m. Three adults walked away from the vehicle, leaving two children inside. Shortly thereafter, a Werner truck, which the company says was traveling below the speed limit, struck the parked vehicle. The two children died in the resulting collision.

The investigating officers placed no fault on Werner or its driver, and one of the adults from the passenger vehicle was criminally charged in connection with the deaths of the children. The parents of the children subsequently filed a lawsuit against Werner and its driver.

Werner settled the case for $150 million dollars.

Yet again as the other case officers placed NO FAULT on the driver and millions are handed over.

Werner Pays $150M to Settle Crash Litigation, Avoid Nuclear Verdict

Drivers found not at fault yet look at these to lawsuits.
Now put in place robot truck, even if they are 100% perfect and not at fault of anything this mega lawsuits will hit them as well.
Not only that but just one successful lawsuit and that will set a prescient across ALL robot trucks and it's game over.

By the way, i drive a flatbed.
If a robot takes over my job please explain to me how a robot will be checking load securement in route?
Will the robot know if there was a load shift and a strap came lose and be able to fix it?
Or what a few bungies on a tarp broke and now the tarp is flopping all over the place going on the road, what is robot truck to do then?

I will be patiently awaiting your answers on how Mr. Robot truck will resolve these flatbed scenarios safely on the spot.

Shouldnt be that difficult for you to answer being the question came from someone nieve with head buried in the sand
Click to expand...

The simple answer is if they cab figure out how to make a truck drive itself. Then they can figure out how to get it to secure its own load. Now i have given lots of thought to robot trucks and had the same argument about how it will do the job of open deck. But it will be done. Eventually

D.Tibbitt · Aug 10, 2022

xsetra said: ↑

Robo app to negotiate a load with a Robo broker to haul on a Robo truck. Hauling containers out of a Robo port. NO human interaction required.
Sounds like a Sci-Fi movie.
Click to expand...

Yeah but think of how efficient it would be without the presence of humans to cause problems every step of the way.

gentleroger · Aug 10, 2022

D.Tibbitt said: ↑

Yeah but think of how efficient it would be without the presence of humans to cause problems every step of the way.
Click to expand...

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Bignum

Kenworth6969 · Aug 10, 2022

D.Tibbitt said: ↑

The simple answer is if they cab figure out how to make a truck drive itself. Then they can figure out how to get it to secure its own load. Now i have given lots of thought to robot trucks and had the same argument about how it will do the job of open deck. But it will be done. Eventually
Click to expand...

If a strap breaks in route will robot truck know and know to resecure the load on its own?

If bungies on a tarp break in route and tarp is coming loose how will robot truck resolve that?
Or if load cuts big hole in tarp in route will the robot know and be able to patch it in route?

We'll have men on Mars before a robot can do all that.

D.Tibbitt · Aug 10, 2022

Kenworth6969 said: ↑

If a strap breaks in route will robot truck know and know to resecure the load on its own?

If bungies on a tarp break in route and tarp is coming loose how will robot truck resolve that?
Or if load cuts big hole in tarp in route will the robot know and be able to patch it in route?

We'll have men on Mars before a robot can do all that.
Click to expand...

If any of that is happening to you. Then you are doing something wrong. That stuff doesn't just randomly happen. It happens because you are careless with your securement and protection.

Wasted Thyme · Aug 10, 2022

D.Tibbitt said: ↑

The simple answer is if they cab figure out how to make a truck drive itself. Then they can figure out how to get it to secure its own load. Now i have given lots of thought to robot trucks and had the same argument about how it will do the job of open deck. But it will be done. Eventually
Click to expand...

They'll just hire people to secure it. Like lumper. No need to get the robot to do it.

Kenworth6969 · Aug 10, 2022

D.Tibbitt said: ↑

If any of that is happening to you. Then you are doing something wrong. That stuff doesn't just randomly happen. It happens because you are careless with your securement and protection.
Click to expand...

All it needs to happen is one time.
One time a load falls off a trailer and its all over for robot flatbed trucks.

Kenworth6969 · Aug 10, 2022

Wasted Thyme said: ↑

They'll just hire people to secure it. Like lumper. No need to get the robot to do it.
Click to expand...

Whos going to be watching and checking the securement in route? The robot?

D.Tibbitt · Aug 10, 2022

Kenworth6969 said: ↑

All it needs to happen is one time.
One time a load falls off a trailer and its all over for robot flatbed trucks.
Click to expand...

If you lose your load because 1 strap breaks. You weren't secured in the first place.

Log in or Sign up

Forums

Find Trucking Jobs

Rates are crashing and fuel to the moon!

Big Road Skateboard Road Train Member

Trucking Jobs in 30 seconds

Wait, employers can't reach you!

D.Tibbitt Road Train Member

D.Tibbitt Road Train Member

gentleroger Road Train Member

Kenworth6969 Road Train Member

D.Tibbitt Road Train Member

Wasted Thyme Road Train Member

Kenworth6969 Road Train Member

Kenworth6969 Road Train Member

D.Tibbitt Road Train Member

Trucking Jobs in 30 seconds

Wait, employers can't reach you!

Log in or Sign up

Useful Searches

Find Trucking Jobs

Rates are crashing and fuel to the moon!

Big Road Skateboard Road Train Member

Wait, employers can't reach you!

D.Tibbitt Road Train Member

D.Tibbitt Road Train Member

gentleroger Road Train Member

Kenworth6969 Road Train Member

D.Tibbitt Road Train Member

Wasted Thyme Road Train Member

Kenworth6969 Road Train Member

Kenworth6969 Road Train Member

D.Tibbitt Road Train Member

Wait, employers can't reach you!