Swedish trucker

[sandy]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRSjdkhY85s

[Rams]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRSjdkhY85s

Yep, I have seen a video of this "trucker" before.   I was kind of curious as to whether or not she needed a co-driver.   But, never asked.   I know better.

Rams

[cookiedough]

she makes me wanna become a truck driver.  am thinking about it, pays good money especially nowadays with all the trucker shortages all over. 

[luftkoph]

Well if your thinking about it, I can give you hundreds of reasons not to, I started in 76 and its a straight up s%&t show nowadays.

[old2soon]

       I'll be retired 13 year in Feb 2022 from over the road big truck and I do NOT miss it anywhere near as I thought I would. In FACT don't miss it at all! RIDE SAFE.

[cookiedough]

       I'll be retired 13 year in Feb 2022 from over the road big truck and I do NOT miss it anywhere near as I thought I would. In FACT don't miss it at all! RIDE SAFE.

what is so bad about it besides dealing with idiots/traffic on the open road?

[old2soon]

       I'll be retired 13 year in Feb 2022 from over the road big truck and I do NOT miss it anywhere near as I thought I would. In FACT don't miss it at all! RIDE SAFE.

what is so bad about it besides dealing with idiots/traffic on the open road?

       Easr coast tolls truck stops ALWAYS jammed up and have you Ever been in rush hour in New York City? Or Chicago? or L A? or Atlanta? or-you git the drift. Inconsiderat drivers bounced around like the ball in a pin ball machine. And a lot of the eastern states do NOT allow you to idle your engine ANYTIME even IF it's 30 below. Grocery warehouses are a P I A on delivery or pick up. I was on the other hand paid a decent wage But you DO live in the truck. Kinda like a Really oversized motor home with a LONG trailer. That IS the trick shot-backing the trailer in and some places were NEVER designed  for 53' trailers and Long conventional tractors. And you will most likely pick up loads that Are Already LATE and that load is NOT even on your trailer yet. And there is a Small sample of trucker life-VERY SMALL SAMPLE! RIDE SAFE.

[luftkoph]

Don’t forget, getting hassled by the DOT, no more truck stops, just fuel stops with fast food ,pay to park, have to make parking reservations, too many inexperienced truck drivers and or people who just don’t have the skill set and never will to drive a truck, Elogs, trucks governed to 65mph in a 75 mph world, auto-shift transmissions ( that way the mega fleets can hire noobs that can’t even work a clutch in a civic)

So if you go to billy bobs big rig truck driving school in 14 days u r a trucker and you can go to work for a bottom feeder trucking company, where you are meat in the seat and thats how you will be treated, these companies have a 100% + turn over rate.

Or you can go directly to one of these bottom feeders and they will train you for free (ha ha ha) indentured servitude is what I’d call it, you might be required to work there for a year or more to be free of your obligations to them, or pay up chump.

I’m fortunate in that for the last 13 years I’ve been within a 140 mile radius of home pulling exclusively Haz-Mat, if I had to go back over the road I do believe being a Whopper flopper would be better, at least you’d get more respect.

If I’ve said it once I’ve said it thousand times it’s taken over 40 years but now we are reaping the bitter fruit of the 1980 deregulation of trucking, thanks congress.

[cookiedough]

Pay is darn good though I think for over 75% driving time most make 60k a year or so starting which is 20K more than I will ever make sitting my fat butt in an office chair punching a keyboard.

My kid age 20, although not a long hauler and not allowed to cross into another state until age 21, working for a moving company part time is making 20 bucks per hour over his 1st summer there driving truck and moving household stuff.  20 bucks per hour part time with most of that time driving a 30 foot moving truck diesel and big V8's (no semis of course) is just as much as him graduating college becoming a teacher.  He told us he wants to quit college to become a trucker full time making more money than being a teacher and both us parents said NO quiting college.

[luftkoph]

Pay is darn good though I think for over 75% driving time most make 60k a year or so starting which is 20K more than I will ever make sitting my fat butt in an office chair punching a keyboard.

My kid age 20, although not a long hauler and not allowed to cross into another state until age 21, working for a moving company part time is making 20 bucks per hour over his 1st summer there driving truck and moving household stuff.  20 bucks per hour part time with most of that time driving a 30 foot moving truck diesel and big V8's (no semis of course) is just as much as him graduating college becoming a teacher.  He told us he wants to quit college to become a trucker full time making more money than being a teacher and both us parents said NO quiting college.

Keep him in school, think long term, where’s trucking going to be in 10,15 or 20 years, with A I  rapidly increasing self driving trucks are just around the corner, they’ll be adopted before automobiles because of the money savings, always follow the money, a lot of my fellow drivers scoff at this, but I think they have their head in the sand.
 It may look exciting and adventurous to him now, it did to me back in the 70’s but all those freedoms we had trucking back then are gone, gone forever, your tracked every second of your day pushed to maximize hours available in cab cameras looking out and looking in at you, and the second you make a mistake they’ll throw you under the bus. but if I had a crystal ball back then and see how this industry fell I would have done something else.

[Serk]

Keep him in school, think long term, where’s trucking going to be in 10,15 or 20 years, with A I  rapidly increasing self driving trucks are just around the corner

Much closer than most realize...

https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/behind-the-wheel-of-autonomous-trucks-with-tusimple-in-tucson

Semi autonomous truck already making runs from Arizona to Oklahoma...

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/19/tusimple-self-driving-trucks-saved-10-hours-on-24-hour-run.html

And they're planning on putting 'em on the road 100% autonomous in the next two months:

https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/03/tusimple-aims-to-test-self-driving-trucks-on-public-roads-without-human-safety-operator-by-eoy/

[Jess from VA]

Seems to me they already have an autonomous President up and running.

Lot of bugs and peculiarities in it, and it doesn't walk, talk and think too well.  But I guess it's a work in progress. 

[cookiedough]

self driving semis on the road NO human input scare the heck out of me and should everyone.  Face it,  electronics and computers do fail and will eventually.  My kid also worked at the corporate headquarters at Menards this summer in the warehouse packaging/moving inventory to ship to the stores.  He says they already have automated forklifts in place and they fail near daily.  I told him to stay CLEAR of them when they do go off track and try to run him over. 

Maybe no human input driving trucks or forklifts can be accomplished safely, but I highly doubt it in my lifetime.

[Serk]

Maybe no human input driving trucks or forklifts can be accomplished safely, but I highly doubt it in my lifetime.

100% safe? Never.

But... Safer than a human? That won't be a very difficult benchmark to achieve, and that's all that's required.

My bigger concern is that as more and more autonomous vehicles are on the road, they're going to find that most wrecks are caused by humans, and eventually move to ban human vehicle operators. THAT is my bigger concern.


Edit to add - Amazing where the discussion can go that was started ogling a hot blonde Swede, ain't it? 

[old2soon]

Pay is darn good though I think for over 75% driving time most make 60k a year or so starting which is 20K more than I will ever make sitting my fat butt in an office chair punching a keyboard.

My kid age 20, although not a long hauler and not allowed to cross into another state until age 21, working for a moving company part time is making 20 bucks per hour over his 1st summer there driving truck and moving household stuff.  20 bucks per hour part time with most of that time driving a 30 foot moving truck diesel and big V8's (no semis of course) is just as much as him graduating college becoming a teacher.  He told us he wants to quit college to become a trucker full time making more money than being a teacher and both us parents said NO quiting college.

Keep him in school, think long term, where’s trucking going to be in 10,15 or 20 years, with A I  rapidly increasing self driving trucks are just around the corner, they’ll be adopted before automobiles because of the money savings, always follow the money, a lot of my fellow drivers scoff at this, but I think they have their head in the sand.
 It may look exciting and adventurous to him now, it did to me back in the 70’s but all those freedoms we had trucking back then are gone, gone forever, your tracked every second of your day pushed to maximize hours available in cab cameras looking out and looking in at you, and the second you make a mistake they’ll throw you under the bus. but if I had a crystal ball back then and see how this industry fell I would have done something else.

        When I first started out there was Still some Fun in the job. And much like our Freedoms those Freedoms on the open road have eroded and last I heard not gittin any better soon! And I have been out of it now comin up on 13 year. I did NOT appreciate the satelite computer BUT I knew the WHY of it being there and along with my cell phone took a lot-well most of the fun outa driving. Don't git me completly wrong-I've seen and done stuff out there I'll most likely Never see and do again and I've met some Very Interesting folk over the years and sampled food from all over this Country of Ours. And I ain't talkin fast food franchises. But should you NOT be payin attention a truck stop CAN be a Very dangerous place transitting truck to building or vice versa. scammers drunks druggies prostitutes thieves etc etc! RIDE SAFE.

[cookiedough]

Pay is darn good though I think for over 75% driving time most make 60k a year or so starting which is 20K more than I will ever make sitting my fat butt in an office chair punching a keyboard.

My kid age 20, although not a long hauler and not allowed to cross into another state until age 21, working for a moving company part time is making 20 bucks per hour over his 1st summer there driving truck and moving household stuff.  20 bucks per hour part time with most of that time driving a 30 foot moving truck diesel and big V8's (no semis of course) is just as much as him graduating college becoming a teacher.  He told us he wants to quit college to become a trucker full time making more money than being a teacher and both us parents said NO quiting college.

Keep him in school, think long term, where’s trucking going to be in 10,15 or 20 years, with A I  rapidly increasing self driving trucks are just around the corner, they’ll be adopted before automobiles because of the money savings, always follow the money, a lot of my fellow drivers scoff at this, but I think they have their head in the sand.
 It may look exciting and adventurous to him now, it did to me back in the 70’s but all those freedoms we had trucking back then are gone, gone forever, your tracked every second of your day pushed to maximize hours available in cab cameras looking out and looking in at you, and the second you make a mistake they’ll throw you under the bus. but if I had a crystal ball back then and see how this industry fell I would have done something else.

        When I first started out there was Still some Fun in the job. And much like our Freedoms those Freedoms on the open road have eroded and last I heard not gittin any better soon! And I have been out of it now comin up on 13 year. I did NOT appreciate the satelite computer BUT I knew the WHY of it being there and along with my cell phone took a lot-well most of the fun outa driving. Don't git me completly wrong-I've seen and done stuff out there I'll most likely Never see and do again and I've met some Very Interesting folk over the years and sampled food from all over this Country of Ours. And I ain't talkin fast food franchises. But should you NOT be payin attention a truck stop CAN be a Very dangerous place transitting truck to building or vice versa. scammers drunks druggies prostitutes thieves etc etc! RIDE SAFE.

well, if that swedish hot looking trucker stops at the truck stops,  would ease the burden of trucking for sure, right???? 

there, now back on track to the original topic....

[F6Dave]

A long haul driver told me many truck stops have been invaded by the homeless. They live in their cars and stay at a truck stop until they're forced out. This lady (part of a husband - wife team) said the vagrants wait for a driver to leave the rig for a shower or meal, then break in. She said this is a recent development.

[old2soon]

A long haul driver told me many truck stops have been invaded by the homeless. They live in their cars and stay at a truck stop until they're forced out. This lady (part of a husband - wife team) said the vagrants wait for a driver to leave the rig for a shower or meal, then break in. She said this is a recent development.

          Why'd the homeless guy git shot? Guy was in the truck when the other part of the Team operation woke up and shot him/her cuz He KNEW it weren't his partner! RIDE SAFE.