Rates are crashing and fuel to the moon!

Discussion in 'Ask An Owner Operator' started by Kenworth6969, Mar 3, 2022.

  1. runningman0661

    runningman0661 Road Train Member

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    Yep, because trucks with human drivers don’t kill people each and every day.
     
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  3. Kenworth6969

    Kenworth6969 Road Train Member

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    You can't outlaw human truck drivers.
    You can easily outlaw robot tech.

    Each human is independent from one another.

    Robot technology placed on one truck can be placed on other trucks as well.
    One death, one legal case can deem them all unsafe.
     
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  4. Last Call

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    Pretty high steaks .. but I'am in !!!
     
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  6. JoeyJunk

    JoeyJunk Road Train Member

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    I want to know how much he spends on advertising.
     
  7. ProfessionalNoticer

    ProfessionalNoticer Road Train Member

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    One day I'm going to vandalize those billboards.
     
  8. runningman0661

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    You are naïve, these companies pushing autonomous technology have deep pockets, they grease the palms of our crooked politicians, laws get passed. No matter the amount of public outrage.

    I bet you are one of the drivers that believed E logs would never happen. Keep your head buried in the sand.
     
  9. ProfessionalNoticer

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    Or that the split berth provision actually makes the roads safer. It's humorous when people believe politicians run the show when in reality it's their "donors" via campaign contributions. The FBI just raided Trump's house! Politicians are nothing more than paid puppets for those who truly run the world.
     
  10. Kenworth6969

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    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 :rolleyes:
     
  11. Long FLD

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    Full autonomous is a long way off. And when it happens it will be on set routes with mostly decent weather. For the rest there will be an operator in the cab in position to take over if need be. That will be who opens the doors and fuels the trucks and checks securement. Only they will be more towards the software engineer end of the spectrum to be able to troubleshoot any issues that may come up and less of a driver as we know them today.

    Full autonomous trucks will probably just run point to point with local trucks doing the pickup and delivery. They won’t need a cab or sleeper since there won’t be a driver, that means they can carry more fuel. Even with me and my dog and all our stuff and 270 gallons of fuel in only 34k with a dry van. So in theory a fuel efficient autonomous truck packing 500 gallons of fuel would easily be able to leave a terminal out west and run non stop to a terminal on the east coast where the trailer would be dropped and a human would complete the trip. Or autonomous trucks could even be running between autonomous warehouses and only need a human to put fuel in which could be done using a bulk tank at a warehouse.

    So many possibilities for the future. An owner operator could buy some and platoon them behind the truck he rides in. It’s sort of exciting to think about in my opinion.
     
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