10 ways to make trucking better

Come see me when you get 45 years in Industry I still ain't going to believe anything you say

 

Anyone can learn HTML to create a webpage, find a folder on a computer capable of broadcasting that page on demand in a hour. That is exactly what happened when I had my first day in college. not even 40 minutes I was building web pages. Crappy pages but it would evolve from there if I wanted to follow that path.

Binary took a little longer Subnets and range was a bigger problem until I learned that too. And so on.

Ultimately I learned that if you get involved in the computer industry, you have a needy computer 24/7, 10,000 idiot customers who need customer service because they know nothing and on up to your immediate supervisors who have already determined what rights, permissions and so on etc you will and will not have. And the incessant certifications. You can spend 10 years chasing and gaining them until you can cover over a office wall like wall paper for all the good it is.

I hate to be difficult. I like to put together very powerful single tower based computers for gaming and so on. And have been successful within expectations with one machine still functioning with ex after almost oh let's see... 2006 all the way to 2018 = 12 years service with only one collaspe rebuilt windows and three power supplies replacement. The original CPU and cooler is beyond what the Intel thinks is a ordinary expected life time in excess of 80000 hours.

I could not be happier.

Now the gaming machines eh.. they averaged about 4 years before they burned out the motherboard capacitors or related. That's something I don't care to get into with a soldering gun. I just drop a new board in there throw whatever fits, order updated retail that will improve and so on. Boom back up in a day. Simple losses of the entire C drive is not a problem. Reimage in a hour. Or pull from array and reinstall among other options.

What I should have done was get involved back in high school when things was really simple in computers before all of this evolved into the internet we know today. It's getting ready to take off onto 5G and itself replace the ethernet based net. 5G uses very similar radio or microwave frequency bands if allowed to get high enough you reach a US Army's non lethal weapons system that burns human fluids 1/64th of a inch below your skin on contact. It boils off causing you to do anything at all to get away from the beam. It's grotesque.

And these computers on all over the precious old iron trucks? They might as well be prisons. I push back against that. We don't need no stinking computer to do some trucking.

I can probably say that the future is not a good one. What more do you demand from this industry? Implants? Robot trucks? Lumpers that cost 1000 dollars and due to zimbabwe style inflation 10,000 dollars a day evaporates in rents exceeding 50,000 US Dollars 50 years from now? It's silly. We are a failed state. Or nation rather.

Im just trying to get back to the days when dispatcher says be somewhere in 5 days and call me when empty. Don't bother us unless you got kilt or you blew up our truck. Then they wait. You literally will either be on time, delivered without problems and ready for the next load that has been planning for the rest of that previous week.

Easy.

 

Didn't read it....but honestly...just one thing will do.

Make roads perfect. 100% perfect everywhere all of the time....lol.

I have always been happy with most other parts of trucking in my limited lifetime experience. If the roads were as smooth as a sheet of glass no matter where you went!!??? Priceless!

All the rest of it what you make of it and if someone makes it bad then move along.

 

The "brotherhood" left the party over 30 years ago. There is no comradery in the sense we had back then.
You on fire in the ditch..i might slow down so my dash cam gets a clear pic.

 

That has more to do with the price of fuel costing 4 to 5 times a gallon what it was then, deregulation was what the 80s, you could get two very nice petes for what one crappy freightliner costs now, you could get a brand new pickup for what 8 to 12k, a house was 50k If it was #### nice. Wages barely keep up with the cost of living doesnt really matter the industry, ive been told that my whole life since i was about 12 and really just starting to see it now, be why i work for myself and plan on keeping it tgat way. If you're dumb enough to sign a contract that has you working for slave wages, that's not my problem and I'd rather you didn't try to make it everybody's problem, an individual's stupidity is their own problem.

 

You act act as if it's a trucking thing. When actually it's the American way now. All for and one for me. And I can't say I want to be a part of the shorts, sweatpants, sandal wearing brothers.

 

1. All trucks are 359exhd or w900A with mechanical caterpillar motors
2. Get rid of low sulfur diesel, def, egr, scr, dpf
3. Paper logs.
4. No more automatic transmissions
5. Cb radios in every truck, turned on to channel 19
6. No flip flops or sweatpants at a receiver/shipper
7. Road atlas in each truck.
8. Tools in each truck and drivers with mechanical ability
9. Only direct freight, no brokers.
10. Truckstops with delicious affordable hot meals.

 

The reason everyone had a “good life” in the old days wasn’t because of collective bargaining, it was because trucking was regulated. No 20000 truck mega fleets looking at the bottom of the barrel for drivers. Many general freight companies ran relays to get stuff across the country, you rarely had guys living in their trucks for months at a time. It was rare for my dad to go more than 2 or 3 days without being at the house.

Nobody forced anyone to sign a contract to repay whoever trains them for their license, nobody forced anyone to work at a company that doesn’t pay detention pay. Nobody forced a driver to stay employed at a company that lets them sit for 3 days without a load. We’re all adults, if you don’t like something move on. If you get your license and don’t want to fulfill your contract be an adult and accept that you’ll have to pay them to move on.

The problem is this industry lost professionalism long ago. Now it’s a last resort for many. They come in with no money and spend what money they make while they’re out on the road and when it’s time to quit they don’t have money to get anywhere. The CDL needs to be more difficult to obtain but that will never happen because the ATA companies can’t find enough drivers as it is because they want the new drivers that they can pay less. I’m sure everyone would be all for mandatory detention time up until the shippers and receivers get pissed off and start charging the trucking companies for every minute the load is late.

 

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