We all knew this was coming...

When I was doing it, that would have been 4 loads. 8 axle star car licensed to 104,500. Usually less than 90 minutes from LACT to rail or pipeline.

 

The Street Name in upper right explains the whiny mentality of the thread.

 

That's putting it nicely.

 

Because they want to do stupid stuff like replace mirrors with cameras.

No backup, no redundancy.

 

That’s the biggest issue with that system. Somewhere, there’s a control module. That module WILL fail. Then, you’re screwed. Go to a dealer and they don’t stock modules because they’re too expensive to just keep on the shelf. Go to order it and they’re on backorder, because there’s no supply. Now what? It’s not like you’ll be throwing on a set of mirrors. It’s an already hideously expensive system that’s now going to be costing revenue.

 

They already have in some locations, read an article a few months ago, not just the charging cords were being stolen but the whole charger was. Electric grid can’t keep up with demand now. Park 600 trucks at I 80 truck stop and plug them in. Watch the grid melt down

 

I’m hauling this thing back to home base in a few hours. The #### thing has no parking brake, it has failed according to the tech that backed it on the trailer. I’m not allowed to even get in the cab. It’s the fourth one I’ve hauled. I was shocked that they don’t have spring brakes in them, there isn’t an air brake system. He had to sit in the cab and hold the brakes while I put the neck back on, and tied it down. They have to be delivered because they only have a few hundred mile range.

 

The brakes are like on a Hybrid car, the drive system uses the energy of the rotating wheels to absorb that energy and put a minimal charge back in the batteries. Hard to believe they haven't figured a way to lock it down when it's parked though.

 

Iowa 80, hell, it's Iowa. Iowa doesn't have that many problems with their power grid. Park both lots of the T/A-Petro in Ontario, CA during a heat wave when their power grid can't keep up as it is...then you have real problems (besides being stuck in Commiefornia)

 

~ ~The OVERLOADED SYSTEMS could possibly equal a sudden and uncontrolled EXPLOSION OF ELECTRICAL OVERLOAD, to then be known as a FRIER-BALL or
One Hopeless Neutral Obliteration >> OH NO. <<