What’s next in trucking?

I think we need to look at Canada to see what may be next, namely, B-train doubles hauling up to 60T on 8 axles total. Especially containers; pull a 40' AND a 20' together. Tankers? All B-train doubles. Bulk trailers? Same. Flatbeds? Yup!

 

How would people like to drive this style truck again and it emissions compliance and better MPG ?

that’s the hope anyway. It’s a diesel electric truck. Electric drive axles and when the batteries get low a Scania diesel engine will recharge the batteries. That’s there show truck but they have newer more aerodynamic trucks. I guess the hope is more HP and torque and better MPG and more reliable engine. If they can do all that. Then more money for drivers hopefully or O/O to keep for themselves, They have electric drive air compressors and a/c system I think.

 

Fuel is cheaper now than the highpoint back maybe around 2008 or 2012 when diesel was $5/gal.

 

I'm also of the "the economy is going to collapse soon" but I grew up in the 1970s when it was way worse and then it got way better. I don't think it's likely to happen soon. I was waiting for the economy to flatline when the Greeks almost bankrupted Europe, but the economy recovered quickly. Dooms sells more TV ads than prosperity and the people with failing careers in media push Doom as a brand in a desperate attempt to keep their jobs. People are just a lot more sensitive to any trouble now and proclaim Amazon delaying a shipment of pokemon stickers by a day to be a world-ending catastrophe, where in the past people waited until their neighbor's employer closed or mortgage interest rates got above 9% for the first time in 75 years. Now, EVERYTHING is the end of the world. You are in charge of your own doom-loop. Once you notice you have this tendency YOU have to search out reasons to prove it's not the end of the world. The end of the world only happens once. There is no gold medal for being the first guy in your neighborhood to be correct about the end of the world. There is no penalty for predicting the end of the world 98 times per year, except your sanity and credibility. People are both consumers and producers. Unless one believes they are the smartest person in society, there are smart people working on most problems.

Get right with God. Get prepared for hard times, get equipped for bad people. Then you can sleep well knowing you are prepared for the worst and you have a reserved seat for the future.

 

I've never liked those big hoods. Never understood the attraction to them.

 

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No, they're too cheap.

Their pay/benefits package makes Schneider look top tier.

 

I drive a company truck and it’s clean and polished. Either, I wash it at the company shop or I pay Blue Beacon. I machine polish my wheels and I buy the tire shine. I get 1 full day at home, per week. It’s a whole lot easier to make excuses than it is to make it happen. I choose to make it happen.

 

Canada is 140k gross on B trains. Enough parts of this country run extended weights and allow higher weights in axle groups that it wouldn’t be that big of deal to make a switch. Every time 90k on 6 axles comes up OOIDA loses their minds.

 

Around the time the Ukraine war started, I saw fuel in some states go north of 6 bucks per gallon in some states. Which would have been 2022 maybe?