What is a Steering Wheel Holder?!

While some are here whining about other people's ways of doing their job, the trucking companies, Google and auto makers are looking for ways to get rid of drivers all together. Driverless trucks will solve the SWH dilemma for the super truckers. And they are predicting that by 2025 they'll have computers driving trucks instead of super truckers and SWH. Until then you have absolutely nothing to worry about as you can still make a living driving a truck. Even though you have to share the road and truck stops with SWHs who refuse to fix stuff under the hood unless they get compensated for it. But when the driverless trucks hit the road, all the super truckers will wish they were SWHs .....mostly the ones who have no other skills besides driving a truck..
Until then, let's just try to get along guys.

 

I'm local so everything you said is meaningless to me.

 

So is he.


40-Love.

 

I'd like to see a driverless truck chain up, fuel itself, perform its own pre-trip, back down a tight alley, drag a drilling rig out of the bush and haul 40 tons of sticks off the side of a BC mountain. I seriously doubt we'll see driverless trucks for anything more than point to point OTR on dedicated routes and I'm willing to bet you won't even start to see them any time prior to 2040.

 

I'm home every night as well...so let me put it this way:

By sitting there waiting 3 hrs to get something fixed that you could have done yourself in 15 minutes, it stretches a 10 hour day into a 13 hour day...meaning you have to fill out a RODS instead of simply punching that time clock. Or it stretches that 12 hour day into a 15 hour day, which means you have to utilize the 16 hour rule if you want to make it home...sure hope you hadn't already used it this week or you'll have to stay overnight somewhere. And if it was going to be a long (13-14 hour) day? Hope you have an overnight bag packed because you won't be getting home legally.

Even if you aren't worried about the clock for your HOS, those hours spent waiting might mean missing your delivery (meaning you get to babysit the load overnight) or can't quite get to your backhaul before they close for the night, meaning you bounce back unpaid instead of hauling paying freight...big hit if you're paid percentage, and REALLY ticks the boss off if you're hourly, meaning you'll be less likely to keep your job if things get slow compared to the "driver" who got his hands dirty and completed EVERYTHING he was dispatched to do that day.

It doesn't matter what segment of the industry you're in, you'll never get anywhere waiting hours for road service to fix a simple issue that you should've been able to handle in a few minutes.

 

Advantage Bulldog.

 

Let's look at the job opportunities, friend. Thieves would no longer have to worry about dogs, drivers tire knockers and guns. They could hack the truck, and have the truck come to their warehouse. There would be a need for a new kind of driver...

Once again, drivers would be classified as skilled labor.$$$$$$

Only those who follow the path of least resistance would be rendered obsolete. The remaining would make stupid money.

 

Properly equipped with cameras a truck can probably back it self down a tight alley much better than any human. Everything else, it will still take a human for a long time

 

My company would send out another driver in a car so we could swap if I ran out of HOS. I'm paid hourly, they don't care about overtime pay. Hell one time I got 10 hours of overtime pay for driving the truck to the dealer and waiting eight hours for a PM. So I think I'm doing fine.