Do you plan to drive... forever?

Everyone is entitled to an opinion even when they are as terrible as this one.

 

No. Just no.

 

Packet gravy contains quite a bit of cellulose fibre(paper) many products I avoid for this reason including grated Parmesan

I drove OTR and regional 47 years. When I quit cuz employer pissed me for the last time it took me about 4 days to decide in all likelihood I would never work again. Initially I had planned on working part time a few more years to ease into retirement

 

For one, I would no longer consider that a home made gravy, and for the other the packet has its own emulsifiers in it so why even bother with a roux or corn starch to thicken your gravy? This is a whole new level of culinary blasphemy. I am reporting your comment to Gordon Ramsay.

 

If the industry stays tolerable I'll drive until I'm 65 or 66. After that I'm out.

If this industry mandates driver facing cameras, I'm out. I'll go become a state trooper somewhere and get my DOT certification to do inspections.

 

Benedict Arnold route eh?

Don't worry, when your company goes to driver facing cameras you'll likely get tossed anyways. Always plays out the same:

Company puts in AI cameras.
Desk jockey safety guys use the most restrictive settings
They realize we don't hold 10&2 for 11 hours straight in silence everyday.
Hand out write ups like trick or treat candy.
People quit/get fired.
Customers/revenue gets lost from short staffing.
Safety man gets berated in a meeting and told to turn the AI settings down.
Remaining drivers get harassed endlessly but not fired unless they really get carried away.
10-20% of mostly older and more costly drivers are gone. Remainder get pushed harder to cover the work.
If they have to rehire it is cheaper, younger guys.


Work morale suffers, company makes more money, any accident gets blamed on the driver and sends them to prison, insurance rates go down (temporarily), stonk price goes up, C-suite gets bonuses in stonk options, the rich get richer, the poor get poorer. #### the drivers.

Rinse and repeat. Happens everyday. Seen it happen at 3 companies. Yawn twice in 5 seconds? Write up. Tell safety you work 6 days a week, burning down a 70, with 2 hours of commute a day, while driving all night? Oh well, it's not an excuse. The other drivers? They'll say you got them soft hands brother. Until they get written up and eventually fired for the same ####.

 

The day I come in and see a driver facing camera installed in the truck is the day I turn in my keys and fuel card.

 

You have an extremely negative outlook on it, but I can’t say that you are wrong on much you wrote. The carrier I lease to has the inward facing camera in the company trucks and has run off many good drivers. Supposedly they were eventually putting them in owner ops rigs until there was a letter threatening a mass exodus of owner ops who are keeping the company profitable. Almost a Union style solidarity I haven’t seen in a non union outfit before. Either way I am about done but the inward facing camera won’t be going in my rig. 38 safe years and I don’t plan on being “Coached” for drinking a cup of coffee or following someone too close that pulled in to my path by someone who has never driven a rig.