Trucking Future???

Keep on dreaming about a 20mpg truck.

 

A hovertruck would get 20mpg. Just sayin.

 

We may see a transition to LNG (Liquid Natural Gas). They say they need to develop engines that will run on both LNG and diesel to allow this to happen.

 

But would the hover truck be CARB approved? Lol

 

No need. It runs on Mr. Fusion

 

Keep this in mind, a drivers csa does not follow him to the next company. Good companies are going to consider this, do I want a million mile 10 year veteran with clean mvr, no tickets or accidents, and maybe a few CSA points, or that fresh new unknown driver with no record at all to look at. Large companies could take a chance on the new drivers because they were self insured. But now with CSA out it's turning into a whole new ballgame. I think the driver mills may start thinning out. I found out the large company I'm with now has a few contracts that they will lose if their csa score gets too high. Now who has the better chance of getting csa points, a fresh driver from a mill, or a veteran driver or driver that attended a real driving school. That is why companies are switching from company drivers and lease operators to o/o, because then the csa points do not reflect on the carrier and they basically become a large brokerage.

 

The wages will continue to drop.

There is a huge amount of cheap foreign labor flooding into this country.

They are allowed to take there CDL test in their native language.

The only good paying jobs are, and will be in the high tech industries.

The cheap foreign labor doesn't have the education or skills to take over that market....YET!

 

Oh, and as for driving being non skilled labor, we really want to keep it that way. As soon as it becomes skilled labor companies can bring immigrants over on work visas to run the trucks.

 

I wouldn't worry about high[er] Carrier CSA scores causing them to not be able to compete and continue to operate. They (the major players who will have the worst scores) will have enough money and influence that they will continue to operate, regardless. They will just have the powers that be issue exemptions and lower the bar, repeatedly. If you think the CSA model is going to "remove" a lot of trucks [entire fleets] from the road, you're sorely mistaken. As long as the right carriers grease the right wheels, they'll continue to operate just as always. You just have to learn how to "play ball" the way big government wants you to play ball. (but don't make the mistake in thinking there is only ONE way to play ball)

Today's "progressive style" big government wants as much competition for the piddly amount of work as possible a la relaxing immigration and adding still more work competition for few job opeinings to insure labor costs (and freight costs) remain as low as possible to help ease the increasing tax burden that is coming for all. the LAST thing the government will be responsible for is reducing the nations freight movement capacity. They may claim to be "cracking down" and increasing safety, but it's all for show and part of the act to create the illusion big government is making a "real difference" and to make some think maybe we should want MORE government.

Sorry this post went off in a political tangent, but today, big trucking is directly affected by government in more ways than ever and it matters to the topic and government demands to be a vital component of the future of trucking and jobs in general these days so get used to it and deal with it or vote for smaller government.

 

I wouldn't LOL. Look at where the google autonomous car is today -- 250,000+ miles with only 1 accident (not at-fault: it was rear-ended). In 10 years I see that technology starting to replace drivers on dedicated routes. In 20 it could take over most of the OTR needs. I'm sure they'll always be a need for drivers willing to work the extremes, but even today I'd rather be a passenger in a google car than in a car driven by some of these cdl-mill steering wheel holders...