An old man's career goes flat, Snackbar moves to open deck

Why would it need to? No hos or food or bathroom needed, just shut engine off and wait for road to reopen. Otherwise probably pings home-base and gets a new routing. Or monitors traffic flow and constantly updates best route.

 

very nice ! how did you go about pulling the tarps over ?

 

Autonomous flat beds should be interesting.

 

And tankers too..lol

 

Until all roads are approved for the trucks they may handle it the way oversize and long doubles do. We just pull up to the road closure, explain to them we won’t take the detour route. Usually they let us past the cones and we wait until the road is open or they want to let us by.

 

It’s largely dependent on the level of automation, if fully automated the truck should be capable of determining if an alternate route is truck legal and faster, or it would simply wait.

In anycase the truck would be monitored so an override instruction set could be issued. I think it’s interesting they are experimenting with automated trucks, but honestly the technology is still fairly far away. It’s one thing to fly a spacecraft to the International Space Station, but co-existing with john and jane public, well that’s another matter all together.

 

Nice, I have a converted painters pole that extends to help me pull chains through reels or belly strap. I don’t do the types of tarpping you guys get up to enough to worry, though I may buy a set of hybrid tarps next year just to be more flexible.

Watching the lanes to see how things shake out.

 

Can't wait until the first one gets hijacked. Will be like the old Knightrider show when the bad guys tried to steal Kitt...