what does the future holds

They'll send somebody with an IT degree or computer science or electrical engineer before they'll send a "dumb truckdriver."

 

The IT person will be the hacker/hijacker.

 

In the next two to five years the best technology that I will see and that anyone will ever see is the
Big Cam Cummins.

It all went backwards after that.

 

I friggin love this thing I'll never go back to gas and neither will any of you after you mow with one . It just gets angrier when it senses resistance!

 

That ain't nowhere near big enough. But you're right once you start mowing with diesel compact tractor that literally takes a log chain to choke you'll never go back to gas.

 

I don’t see any central power electric everything taking over the country anytime. If that was going to happen it would have happened to the railroads by now. Some places it works, mostly it won’t. You big city folk may get something like it, but everyone else (yes, there’s civilization outside of the metropolitan areas!) will continue making life happen with that nasty old fossil fuel. People have been working on alternative fuels for as long as there has been power production.

 

Don't get me wrong here....I friggin love my big cam! But as O/O....the business side of me sees electric as the future. If I could have one right now of course I would run it!

 

I ask myself that question, and preface it with "What future?"

You can have the very best in a future. The best money can possibly buy. But if the same old tired screw ups with shippers and recievers combined with low to no pay and so on why? It might be better that robots run the freight rather that humans. Maybe they will do a more better job without the costs or limitations such as food, parking or HOS etc.

I recall cars in the auction house as they evolved past say 2008 model year began to make computer decisions to override me, the driver decisions. For example put her into a slightly higher gear (Manual) and apply a little power to get off a sheet of ice and the computer denies it because it's in a parking lot. I actually had to call the shop truck through my supervisor to toss a chain to it and pull it out of the spot because it wont move. Even if you cleared the cars (Which we did, 20+ of them in a few minutes) there it is stuck on that little bit of ice and slope refusing to hook power to any of the wheels.

That was the day I decided deliberately that I will continue to purchase older vehicles. With hardly anything in them in way of technology. As long my state is a non emissions, non inspections non factory installed parts state you can get away with anything you want. However I was raise din a emissions, inspections and factory parts state so I know what's coming. That is where the Historic tags workaround will apply when the time comes. Exempts all that.

The future. Ha. In cars and trucks filled with computers telling me don't do that. Don't do this. You can't do that. Or this. Or something else. no no no no.

And you wonder why I love older cars and old iron from back in the day. You can have the future. It's not for me.

 

English class?

 

When I read driverless trucks this scene below always portrays in my mind.