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Thanks for this video. As a truck driver, albeit "home daily", I see A LOT of bad information about trucking posted online by people who don't know what they're talking about.. Especially Tesla youtubers, a lot of them get more wrong than they get right. Once they use the Tesla "semi" misnomer, you know the bad info is coming. Either way, I would like to say that this video is 99% accurate (truckers getting paid $.35/mile and 6mpg for efficiency are outdated numbers) I appreciate the research that you put into the video.
Something that I've been looking into myself is, per your footnote#3, transportation electricity is $.10/kwh and overall electricity in the USA is $.10/kwh across sectors, but Tesla claims that tesla truck owners will only be charged $.06/kwh in their operating costs breakdown. I would looove to know how they plan on getting 6 cent electricity, considering their own superchargers currently cost $.26/kwh on the low end and $.40/minute at the high end. But IDK why I'm ranting about this here lol
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My dad was a long haul truck driver. He hauled haz-mat, so team driving was off limits for him. He would leave Monday morning and come home Friday evening. He had a love hate relationship with the job. He said he saw some of the most beautiful scenes, met great people at truck stops, but it did his body bad. He has neuropathy in his clutch foot, and wrist problems in his shifting wrist. Towards the end of his career he got an automatic truck and said it was a dream.
He recently retired to log truck driving which was one of his first loves. He loves the woods.
Edit to add: after dealing with diverticulitis for several years, he had his entire colon removed, doctors said logging is too rough on his body. At 62 he can't stop working, so now he hauls scrap metal for a cousin 3 days a week. Nice truck, paved the whole way, and only driving 4 to 5 hours a day.
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āOne driver will sit behind the wheel in the lead truck, and a series of driverless autonomous trucks will followā ā the next Fast & Furious movie heist script is writing itself lol
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I drove truck over the road (long haul) for 6 years, beginning in 2006. Much of what was covered in this video is true, except APU's and plug-in services being recent innovations. Even back in 2006, APU's were not that rare. They save a great deal of maintenance and fuel. They are quieter. They are cleaner. They are safer (for the human sleeping in the vehicle and the environment.) I had one on the truck I bought because I refused to pay for idling the truck all night. I caught a lot of crap on the road because I bought the same truck a large company would and set it up like one. My thought was, if their millions of dollars in research told them this was the best method, I'm going to trust it because cost per mile is even more critical for my success than theirs.
I got out of the business because it just isn't the lifestyle for me. I was very good at it, but I also hated it. Truckers in the United States are very underpaid, undervalued, and over-targeted by predatory law enforcement officers and agents.
For the idea of single-driver truck convoys (disconnected trains, basically) there are a few areas where I have great concerns. If the driver is there to take control in poor driving conditions, how are they going to safely manage multiple independent vehicles WHILE enduring the stress of traversing a mountain pass in a snow storm? This will eventually cause a reversal of trends to require a driver in every vehicle again. Then there is the issue of highway merging, which will require the convoy communications system to constantly adjust and have different vehicle in different lanes, handling different circumstances, and not causing accidents from herky-jerky movements. That doesn't even touch on the issue of driver attention when they know they don't really have control. They will fall asleep out of boredom!
There is a reason pilots are still required in airplanes... Despite having aut-pilot systems for decades... Systems capable of handling point-to-point flights, including take-off and landing. This is a case of engineers working for "progress" that will never be able to last until we have true AI, at which point we have to worry about the computer brains deciding we are not worthy of life.
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Since Air transport is hampered he has moved on to other means of transport.
Feels like a breakup and moving on :(
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as a long haul trucker, even though I knew everything in this video I still found it very entertaining and it feels good sam took time to focus on a industry that most people dont care about because we do our jobs the right way. as the saying goes 'if trucks stop, america stops'
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My brother is a truck driver, he has been honestly since i was a child or more (i'm 25). He truly loves what he does, we are from Costa Rica and he has been working for a couple months on the US just hauling from coast to coast even tho he doesnt even speak english, it is truly astonishing how dedicated he is, when he is about to come to Costa Rica he would pick up a international Haul from the US to here and drive it, usually takes 12-15 days of all day driving all across half of america.
I'm a software engineer and i cant think of having such dedication for a job.
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As a driver I think this video skips over many of the duties of a driver. We are often put in a weird security guard status, ensuring that freight stays safe and untampered between shipper and receiver. Drivers also keep shippers honest because shippers sometimes cheat and load heavier loads than the bills reflect, which could be an issue when they are already loading trucks to their capacity. Weather is a major reason to keep drivers in the trucks, especially if trucks get electrified because the range with bad weather will become an issue and being able to navigate a snowstorm is also a problem for a computer that can't chain the tires or see the road though an Icey windshield
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I did long haul for 12 months a few years ago, and drove team for 4 of those 12. At first it was fun. Got see lots of new places I'd never been before. But the other guy I was with was an ahole, so I went driving by myself for the remaining 8 months. Fun factor kept going down. All I saw was loading bays, hookers at truck stops, and blacktop. As soon as I came back from a trip, my dispatcher bugged me to head back out on the road. 2 weeks driving, 2 days off. To heck with that! Now I drive locally and I'm in the comfort of my own bed every night.
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TL;DR: Make better predictive systems vs reactive for autonomous vehicles, personal experience story, expand sensors for autonomous system onto trailer.
Like I've said in other videos talking about autonomous trucks, I'm not going to trust an autonomous vehicle unless it can predict unsafe drivers before they do something unsafe. An example from my own experience. I was driving through Indianapolis on the loop, checking the on ramp traffic. (East side, heading north just passed the I-69 exit) I spotted a red Pontiac riding the bumper of another vehicle and thought to myself, "This guy is gonna cut around that guy and in front of me." Sure enough, he cuts around the car before the merge area begins, accelerates and cuts in front of me. It's that kind of predicting that I hope autonomous trucking gets to before they get rid of drivers completely. I also hope that they can have sensors on the trailers themselves to give an extended range of view as well, otherwise they'll have the same blind spots drivers have now in trucks, which just means another potential connection failure between truck and trailer.
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I did ORT with my dad when I was younger I few years back. This is such a human approach to explain the job and I'm glad you did your homework.
My dad had a rig from the late 90s, so he didn't have to worry about Elogs. He would drive 14-16 hours a day sometimes.
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There should be a movie about a truck driver couple who have been married for 10 years but don't really know each other because one of them is always asleep.
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Wendover is like a solar eclipse:
He doesn't come out often, but when he does it's a treat.
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This is information that I never thought I needed, but am grateful to know
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I love how he points out that most drivers own their own trucks and then talks about companies going driverless. Actually the people who should be most concerned are the brokers, freight forwarders and dispatchers. We already have the technology to bypass all of them and send freight options straight to the truck. If the driver doesn't have to keep his eyes staring at the highway and hands on the wheel, he can choose the best load for his operation. Who knows, maybe we can even get rid of the mega carriers.
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Me, a long haul OTR truck driver: "Oh hell yeah, time to learn shit I already know"
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8:05 Imagine just trying to merge on to the highway and a stack of 20 trucks is blocking you
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"In America it is 11 hours, Europe 9 hours"... and South Africa 16 to 36 hours, while avoiding weight bridges and customs police.
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The comment section throws even more light on trucking. I don't know the first thing about those rigs but I know to fully appreciate those who drive them. From groceries to medicines and everything in between, thank you, truckers.
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@SuperB1971
4 years ago
I am a long haul OTR trucker. I am impressed with your knowledge. Iāll be around for a while though. They arenāt as close to autonomous trucks as one would think.
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