it’s ok bro! we are ready to retire. lol Trucking is an addiction and we are the addicts. the loads are the drugs. This shit destroys your life starting with your body ,and family. Get out before it’s too late your body and health are destroyed and your family is Gone when you get home 🏠
I mean, there are many many jobs out there ..that you can make the same amount of money or more than what you make driving a rig. and yet you will get home every day and see your family and live a normal life.
CDL mills are a huge problem in the industry. Majority of the CDL holders don’t understand the responsibility and risk associated with being a professional trucker. Drivers deserve to be paid well due the sacrifices made. How did the industry go from $100k to barely getting $45k to start?! GREED is the reason we need to stand up and vote against those who don’t fit the narrative. Leave the ballot empty!!!
It kills me when drivers have to sit at shippers and receivers for 2 hours before we start to get paid hourly for sitting and drivers have to stay in On Duty while waiting
Cdl “mills” have nothing to do with it…. There’s not a single factor to self driving trucks other than automation. Everyday every single thing is being worked on being automated more and more. It’s just how the world works. Anybody who thinks there is some other deep meaning to it is just foolish.
@@Daniel-oy8ic Sure it does! The FMSCA has perpetuating the narrative of driver shortage for years. Mega carriers get funding for CDL mills to combat alleged shortage. Automation happens is every company, however, trucking shouldn’t be automated. The processes of a trucking company can be, not the actual driving. Are you a driver or commenting?
@@TruckerRo Absolutely agree with you! No real understanding of how the clock operates or trucker can’t find parking. Some shippers won’t all you sleep on the premises if you’re out of time.
I’m starting to avoid McDonald’s and Taco Bell when they expect me to ring myself up and have one worker doing everything for minimum wage. I go to Wendy’s or chipotle and the price is the same but better food and they actually staff the place. What’s next I pay $10 for $1 worth of hamburger ring myself up and have to go in the back and cook it myself?
Wait for over pollution of the planet 🌎, as smart people separately mining materials to keep automation going on! They don’t seem to understand the scarcity of raw materials!
It will be a long while before they could actually bring in self driving trucks to our highways. One reason is not all loading docks and receiving docks would be to hard for it to operate efficiently and safe. Not to mention there's alot that could go wrong in the general motoring public.
Listen.. me used to haul seafood and produce, and when it comes to seafood, you have to stand at dock door and count 1:26 make sure lobsters and shrimps don’t have legs lol. Like you said, autonomous drivers and now going to put the responsibility on the shipper make sure the count is accurate, they’re doing that now and it still comes up short😂😂
Perhaps it may or not. Boeing being the billion dollar company it is. At any given accident pays 1 million per passenger if they are American. If they are foreign then 420k per passenger. That same logic reasoning does not apply to trucking and its past nuclear verdict. A deaf man for his inconvenience can sue be awarded 36 million because trucking wasn't a good fit. Same for a car that crossed lanes into a oncoming semi truck also can be awarded 100 million because everyone has to have sympathy.
My fav part of all this is how dot has made these trucks exempt from weigh stations. Amazing how all of sudden mechanical safety doesn’t mean a dam thing. Compared to getting shut down and basically out of biz because you have a marker light out
It all boils down to the fact of all these problems are the companies fault they all have lowered their standards so low from hiring anyone with a pulse
How can you possibly be so ignorant? This is from automation. Part of the future is every single thing advances more and more in to being automatic. It’s how the world works and it’s affecting trucking. To think there is some deep meaning is just foolish and whoever thinks otherwise could be told that Chick-fil-A trash cans open automatically because people nowadays just don’t have the skill to open a trash can and would 100% believe it.
FACT: Then Best Veterans are expected to , swap Loads , constantly with Individuals who refuse to Deliver Ontime. One of them Recently, bragged about having (6 Accidents), yet Company retained Him. I informed Company, I'm no longer Driving All Night , to "Save a Load" for Incompetent Morons (Paid Same as Me).
@MuthaTrucker you mean you have a greater passion making money doing other stuff than driving and being able to have a liedown with your woman whenever you want. Every night 👉👌
Trucking is an addiction and we are the addicts. the loads are the drugs. This shit destroys your life starting with your body ,and family. Get out before it’s too late, before your body and health are destroyed and your family is Gone when you get home 🏠
Yep can't hate Alex for having common sense to get out of trucking especially if your independent don't see where it's even worth it anymore it's obvious for some unknown reason truckers want strike still can't figure that out new BS bills trying ti get passed everyday the government trying to take over your truck when someone telling you to governor your truck to a certain speed that's a form of control got ELD in there another form of control might start me up a Daddy Trucker Channel better than this bullshit
If enough Truck Drivers quit and tell them the reason why is because when you get paid by the mile you never receive any overtime pay whatsoever none nada Zippo no overtime pay and when the truck is not rolling, you aren't making any money at all. Thats a form of Slavery. Demand to be paid by the hour and demand overtime pay after 8 hours in a day or at least after 40 hours in a week. Do not accept anything less. You're getting cheated. If enough drivers quit they will do something about it. Tell them you quit because you are not willing to work and be paid by the mile. And no overtime pay. Tell them that is the reason. I have a loval milk Tanker truck driving job and i get paid by the hour and overtime pay after 8 hours and I usually work around 11.5 hours. Thsts decent wages. And 2 days off per week. Do not accept anything less. Good Day 😊
Too many weak truckers with tons of debt/excuses/reasons . Look what farmers are doing in Europe and compare it to the no action from American truckers. I have lost hope.
My company is trying to eliminate the hourly pay. To give us a paycut for doing the same thing we been doing for years. It's so disrespectful to us all.
There are a whole bunch of truck driver prospects right across the boarder who'll work for way less than you. Push the system and see how fast they find a way to replace you. And the public won't be very sympathetic.
😅 I understand everyone is still worried about self-driving trucks. But the Federal need to be focused not only on trucks on the road but they really need to focus on shippers and receivers to be fair. Trucks don't get loaded without warehouses. Warehouses are some of the most unsafe areas more than trucks on the road. Here's my example. How many times have shippers and receivers Taken 2 to 3 hours to load a trailer that normally takes 15 minutes. And seriously there is money to be made off of these warehouses because they shouldn't be taking that long. Fatigue and exhaustion is the biggest problem with this industry. Regardless of what people say it's also affects the self-driving industry because if you think about it the self-driving trucks are going to be the first ones that suffer when nobody's there to check the tires. No one's there to open the doors. No one's going to be there to accept rejected freight. Who's going to be there to let them know that they overloaded the trailer question mark all these variables are going to affect the industry tremendously because all they're doing is trying to take shortcuts on the same thing the air lines are doing the Builders of Airlines are all trying to take shortcuts to remove human interaction from creation shipment and safety. How To Save A Buck here and there. My only wish is that the Federal Motor Carrier with the law enforcement go after the shippers and receivers of product and make sure that they are doing their diligence by showing the public that their sighting the shippers and receivers that do not comply with rules of safety. Driver fatigue stems from not only them taking too long to load. Being efficient enough to communicate the drivers pay for their unjustly detention and holdover in a timely fashion. If they start getting these citations and stop doing these stupid pictures of practices driver fatigue won't be an issue and that will be more cost-effective than just ignoring the problem. And until that happens no matter what they want about automated self-driving trucks. It's never going to make it go away.
Vote me into the FMCSA 1. Brokers regulated to 6% 2. Lower insurance 3. No more Indians in trucking 4. FS is a must 5. Must own property or have a mortgage to acquire an MC The list continues....
@@chapz.1 yes but we need to word it better because public support of truckers is important to improving the industry, as it stands we just get shit on by the general public, and therefore the government feels enabled to take advantage of us to serve the US economy without backlash. Saying "no foreigners/no indians" will not help move the needle in other direction. The issue is that the government let's people with work visas come over because this job has become an undesirable job, but it wasn't always so undesirable. Quality of life as a trucker has devolved into basically living in a third world country. So now we bring in people from third world countries to do the job, further worsening the risk/reward for American truckers. We need to maintain the value of the labor and bringing in cheap labor from overseas is the opposite of this. It's that simple. I also don't think requiring property ownership or a mortgage should be a requirement to have an MC. Unless you mean you need to have your own truck, whether it's owned or on a payment plan, to own an MC. That way only truckers and former truckers who run their own equipment will be running MC's.
@Gabe4D I understand we need to word it differently but we all know since other drivers from different countries come and drive here for 30 cents a mile and you have 2 or 3 drivers in 1 truck and don't pay insurance they are the ones taking the cheap freight there's companies out there that pay there drivers cash and they don't have there drivers on the policy and these are the once causing the wreckes out there but yet we the owner ops are the ones that have to pay the price at the end.
@@chapz.1 I agree. My mindset is simply that for change to occur the government needs to act and it wouldn't be in the economy's best interests to make these changes even though I agree it's necessary. If the general public views truckers as their modern day slaves and to improve the industry would cost the general public when they go grocery shopping, then the general public needs to be on our side and see the moral implications of it all to be on board, and only then would the government probably take the necessary steps to rectify the issues in this industry. So it is in our best interests to focus on the facts rather than to make comments that make an outsider take one look and go "oh they're racist xenophobic asswipes, they deserve to be miserable truckers. Carry on!"
One reason why is some drivers I've seen since January of 2020 shouldn't even possess a CDL. Most of them go out, get a loan to buy a $200 thousand dollars rig, rent a trailer, book some loads, and can't even get on a road before putting dings and dents into the rig and trailer, and also drive said equipment WITHOUT insurance, which is a MUST!
I assume these vehicles are EV ? If so how does that play on the current grid system and what does it cost in electricity a year vs paying a driver .my town is getting its first charging station I guess the city gets kickbacks for installing it 🤷♂️
Between the Insurance Industry then these fees...we had an EMERGENCY MEETING the other day at work with ☕️ & 🍩 because one of our tablet friendly apps we use for tracking & billing just wanted out of the blue start charging $25k a month for there app!?! So, we had an emergency delete from our tablets...no one is going to like this financially once the tech companies think they have what the trucking industry "NEEDS" The easiest solution and I've said it before and I'll say it again if they get rid of the top heavy Ivory Tower offices the humongous trucking companies run so all these dudes can run around their collared shirts and they're shiny shoes and walk out to their two hundred thousand dollar vehicles at the end of the day and go home if they cut all that executive crap out of their cost of doing business and went autonomous on that end there is the savings!!!
Less say a big 5 company hire someone they give you 4 route in 70 hr in a week The company gains for all 4 load a total of 16,000 $ you're getting paid .50 per mile average of 2800 miles ...now think about it 🤔
Years ago my brother was driving his truck down by TEXAS BORDER. 5 BORDER JUMPERS on his truck. Wouldn't get off. So my brother started drive. BORDER JUMPERS was falling off. One of them hurt his leg. The cops told my brother he would Sue my brother for hurting him.
It will only save money until all the trucks are autonomous. At that point it will be same same as when all the trucks were run by humans. It's like a guy getting fuel for $1 less a gallon because he is first to get a special fuel card. Once everyone has that same card ,.. the rates will adjust and the extra profit will disappear.
Relax everyone they can never replace a human to drive a 80,000 pound truck on ice with a robot. lololol, they'll get their system hack, and their will be massive accidents
He said "they want drivers wages gone" which coincides with their overall larger agenda, they want the middle class gone! That might sound crazy but it's true and it's happening. Home ownership is at its lowest level of in over 50 years.
The problem is America itself. America have unfortunately became a strictly outsourcing country. That is the main reason why cost of living is so high. Plus the cost of diesel should be lowered and the price of gas should be raised to offset one another. It would also help if the industry can configure a way to get rid of brokerage all together. And as far as companies trying figure a way to make autonomous trucks i honestly can not blame them because they are trying to keep up with demand because of the state that America is in at the same time being profitable. All because the us dollar doesn't circulate in this country. So we should be upset at our political officials not trucking companies.
Just another chapter in life. When it happens if it happens you will have to just move on to the next thing. Personally I would try to buy a self driving truck my damn self 😂
They been working on robots for every job. I watch a brick plant go from 80 workers to 5 workers and office people. They want robots in stores,supermarkets and so on. They want to take as much power from as much people as they can.
The sad thing is we do not realize that we are funding the process by hauling cheap freight and driving for mega carriers. Every time we turn our wheels operating at a deficit, they generate profit which they allocate a certain percentage of (pre tax investment) toward autonomous replacements. If we only had common sense enough to stop the wheels from turning long enough to reallocate the profit. It has to be a shitty feeling going to work everyday knowing you are funding your replacement. Eliminate the excuses, intent is enough for me to take action.
Most of them just like to talk now and not work so that’s why they aren’t trucking but just talking. A truck is a wheel barrel so if some John Doe puts a reverse mirror on his wheel barrel and pushes it off the ramp saying I’m watching it makes all the sense to me to know where to call BS. Someone still has to watch the product if you want to stay in business and people need to eat and be humane so we go out to feed America. Could you Imagine what the Cafeteria would look like with out the lunch lady. Vending Machines are almost never used in places where you think they would be used. I would love to drive hands free but even the light rail needs a conductor. What you could do is put your stuff on a plane and improve auto piloting.
Go ahead and replace us then bad rates high insurance high fuel good luck getting your truck fixed on the road within a week if you break down trucking is just about dead. Yall should use this channel to get people organized but unfortunately it's not used for that so it is what it is I'm thankful my equipment is paid off so I can just walk away from it I know everyone isn't there yet but the only way you get people attention is to hit people in there wallet which means strike don't wait til the industry doesn't need you anymore before you do something
If it were truly about safety they would have both a human driver and autonomous systems in the truck....it isn't about safety...it's about the money. Industry only cares about you as much as liability requires.
We are looking forward to self driving trucks. This technology will eventually make it safer, cheaper, more reliable, efficient. Drivers on the highways will appreciate having fewer crazy truckers on the roads. It's an industry ripe for automation. Don't cry about it, invest.
We are categorized as “Professional Truck Drivers”, just as some are considered professional basketball, soccer and football players….. it’s time we get paid as such…especially since we have to get checked out to see if we’re fat every 2 years…
Everything that’s negative about the trucking industry is all thanks to mega carriers. I’d rather stand on the corner holding ad signs than to drive for a mega carrier.
Take on to the wild again This isn't hiw I lived. I guess the needed me saved. Broken window pain. So thing I can't change I feel like fish out of a stream Take me on the wild again. What u see isn't who I am. Wondering around again.
How about this, put your autonomous trucks on the road but these companies including the government have to hire the truckers they will replace physically .
Instead of that stupid mess that will never work you will come better trying to stop a company from lying before that will happen 100 years from now someone going to drive and they still want be close that's a fact
4-wheeler here weighing in an opinion-this autonomous truck crap is BULLSH#T. It’s nothing but a money grab for companies like Aurora and PACCAR. PACCAR!! WTF?!? I’ll never look at another Pete again with anything but disdain (no disrespect to the drivers behind the wheels).
Eliminate the driver? Maybe, over time in a few select applications. But think this . Who will be the new corporate customers be if every job possible will be eliminated by AI? (My employee is your customer - no jobs no spending money. Saving money is good but if there's no jobs to afford a new car?) If the law of unintended consequence applies here we all go on a basic income . Then where you are in life is where you are. No extra overtime for a new boat. No cabin. No toys in the garage. Picking a random number out of my azz.. $750 week per person . Nation wide. We become directionless drones. No opportunities no purpose etc. Life becomes like one big native American reservation. It's a" brave new world" we live in where not all progress is good progress.
I really don't see anything wrong with pointing out trucking abuse. low wages. unpaid retention pay, no parking, inflation. Freight brokers having a grip and monopoly on common freight. Mill schools unable to teach drivers basics down shifting going down hill. Quality of new entrants are either deaf, cant speak English and sometimes what seems lack any common sense with no courtesy. The steering wheel holder dilemma. What is come of it where will it go. Get specialized! Get specialized! Get specialized! Has been the only logical answer. With a twist of irony. Were all just walking in circles around this huge pile of manure and pointing our finger at it and covering up our nose. I might think its a nightmare others say its only a bad dream everything dandy.
It’s all about More Money for Companies sticking the little guy look at The people they are hiring out of the schools with no experience nobody to teach them anything, and they have more accidents than anything. I don’t see how companies are even making any money.💯😎
@@glennevitt5250it’s probably more about the ignorance of truck drivers. As a driver trainer, I came across ALOT of good students with no experience. In my opinion drove better than a lot of 10+ plus year experienced drivers who think they have an un godly blessed from above gift of driving a truck. In reality self driving trucks are just part of the future of automation. There is nothing more to it. Automation is going to effect everything.
Institution in my brain. There some things they couldn't change. I wana be free again. This isn't hiw i lived. Driving me insane. Wondering till im death. I feel a fish. Catch n release This isn't who i am
The only thing holding autonomous back right now is satellite jamming from other countries like Russia and China. How often is your internet down? Once Ukraine and Gaza issues are resolved and we are technically at peace, there will be no satellite jamming. Autonomous systems will remain online.
What happens when there's no jobs to do because they've all been automated? They will have to give people money somehow. You might as well just let us keep our jobs so you don't end up giving us money for just sitting on our butts.
Ahh come on, you could never have a self driving truck, and anybody who thinks so is too simple minded to know better. What if there's an accident and the police are directing traffic. What if there's an exit that's closed. What if it has to change lanes in a construction zone. What if there's rain or fog and the cameras can't see, or a flying stone breaks a lens. I could name a dozen more reasons why a self driving truck could never work. You cannot build a machine that replaces a human. It's impossible
I love how half these videos are about what American truckers _SHOULD_ be convoying and protesting about but instead as per the usual bigot choose to convoy and protest for Trump and about immigrants... stay genius, you geniuses. 👍🏽🇺🇸👍🏽
I currently work as local delivery driver for Penske logistics. I deliver to local Starbucks accounts. Does anyone know when my job will be automated ? I’m seriously considering going back to school for cybersecurity
@MuthaTrucker lol! Ok, Alex! I'm an owner operator and I've been watching your show for years! However, I'm completely against Canadian truckers coming into our country and running our frieght and going back to Canada. It takes away from the little frieght we already have in the United States 🇺🇸
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it’s ok bro!
we are ready to retire. lol
Trucking is an addiction
and we are the addicts.
the loads are the drugs.
This shit destroys your life
starting with your body ,and family.
Get out before it’s too late
your body and health are destroyed
and your family is Gone when you get home 🏠
2 Billion less that circulates pockets and sales. Many truckers live paycheck to paycheck. And many who don't are forced to spend it somehow.
@@LoboMaestrooMany would live in squalor conditions until their small savings disappears. They would flood the easy "teen jobs"
I mean, there are many many jobs out there ..that you can make the same amount of money or more than what you make driving a rig. and yet you will get home every day and see your family and live a normal life.
CDL mills are a huge problem in the industry. Majority of the CDL holders don’t understand the responsibility and risk associated with being a professional trucker. Drivers deserve to be paid well due the sacrifices made. How did the industry go from $100k to barely getting $45k to start?! GREED is the reason we need to stand up and vote against those who don’t fit the narrative. Leave the ballot empty!!!
It kills me when drivers have to sit at shippers and receivers for 2 hours before we start to get paid hourly for sitting and drivers have to stay in On Duty while waiting
Cdl “mills” have nothing to do with it…. There’s not a single factor to self driving trucks other than automation. Everyday every single thing is being worked on being automated more and more. It’s just how the world works. Anybody who thinks there is some other deep meaning to it is just foolish.
@@Daniel-oy8ic Sure it does! The FMSCA has perpetuating the narrative of driver shortage for years. Mega carriers get funding for CDL mills to combat alleged shortage. Automation happens is every company, however, trucking shouldn’t be automated. The processes of a trucking company can be, not the actual driving. Are you a driver or commenting?
@@TruckerRo Absolutely agree with you! No real understanding of how the clock operates or trucker can’t find parking. Some shippers won’t all you sleep on the premises if you’re out of time.
@@TruckerRo We need to get paid commuting to and from work. Driving is driving in my opinion based on insurance.
We can't even handle self check-out without any issues😂 Good luck with a 80,000lbs 53 foot bomb
A human operates a self-checkout register.
I’m starting to avoid McDonald’s and Taco Bell when they expect me to ring myself up and have one worker doing everything for minimum wage. I go to Wendy’s or chipotle and the price is the same but better food and they actually staff the place. What’s next I pay $10 for $1 worth of hamburger ring myself up and have to go in the back and cook it myself?
Wait for over pollution of the planet 🌎, as smart people separately mining materials to keep automation going on! They don’t seem to understand the scarcity of raw materials!
Become a millionaire
I can imagine how easy it’s gonna be to steal the freight off these automated trucks
That is an easy fix key lock outs. That only the unloaded will be given.
I hope so, people would be hungry for sure
Block the truck with a car , cover sensors with a duct tape and that’s it , the truck is disabled and you can do whatever you want with it
@@kathleendanford9420
Watch the lock picking lawyer
@@kathleendanford9420 you can easily cut the side of a trailer open
Although it will "save" 200 billion, it will cause 2 trillion dollars worth of other problems.
Love to hear this! Innovation is making smart people greedy
It will be a long while before they could actually bring in self driving trucks to our highways. One reason is not all loading docks and receiving docks would be to hard for it to operate efficiently and safe. Not to mention there's alot that could go wrong in the general motoring public.
Listen.. me used to haul seafood and produce, and when it comes to seafood, you have to stand at dock door and count 1:26 make sure lobsters and shrimps don’t have legs lol. Like you said, autonomous drivers and now going to put the responsibility on the shipper make sure the count is accurate, they’re doing that now and it still comes up short😂😂
Come on we all know its GREED !!!!
I’d love to see an automated truck haul oversize loads…
Exactly
Lawsuits will go thru the roof going autonomous
Perhaps it may or not. Boeing being the billion dollar company it is. At any given accident pays 1 million per passenger if they are American. If they are foreign then 420k per passenger. That same logic reasoning does not apply to trucking and its past nuclear verdict. A deaf man for his inconvenience can sue be awarded 36 million because trucking wasn't a good fit. Same for a car that crossed lanes into a oncoming semi truck also can be awarded 100 million because everyone has to have sympathy.
Companies will count on savings to offset liability. Automation is coming and it'll get here faster than you think.
I graduated in 83 we were told about paperless society and flying cars by the year 2000 . They can barely get these cars to drive themselves.
My fav part of all this is how dot has made these trucks exempt from weigh stations. Amazing how all of sudden mechanical safety doesn’t mean a dam thing. Compared to getting shut down and basically out of biz because you have a marker light out
It all boils down to the fact of all these problems are the companies fault they all have lowered their standards so low from hiring anyone with a pulse
How can you possibly be so ignorant? This is from automation. Part of the future is every single thing advances more and more in to being automatic. It’s how the world works and it’s affecting trucking. To think there is some deep meaning is just foolish and whoever thinks otherwise could be told that Chick-fil-A trash cans open automatically because people nowadays just don’t have the skill to open a trash can and would 100% believe it.
FACT: Then Best Veterans are expected to , swap Loads , constantly with Individuals who refuse to Deliver Ontime. One of them Recently, bragged about having (6 Accidents), yet Company retained Him. I informed Company, I'm no longer Driving All Night , to "Save a Load" for Incompetent Morons (Paid Same as Me).
Wrong, you’re ignorant…
If trucking was that great, Alex would still be in it
To debate this comment. I got out of it when it was booming!!! I have a greater passion of sharing information in trucking than trucking.
@MuthaTrucker you mean you have a greater passion making money doing other stuff than driving and being able to have a liedown with your woman whenever you want. Every night 👉👌
Trucking is an addiction
and we are the addicts.
the loads are the drugs.
This shit destroys your life
starting with your body ,and family.
Get out before it’s too late, before
your body and health are destroyed
and your family is Gone when you get home 🏠
Yep can't hate Alex for having common sense to get out of trucking especially if your independent don't see where it's even worth it anymore it's obvious for some unknown reason truckers want strike still can't figure that out new BS bills trying ti get passed everyday the government trying to take over your truck when someone telling you to governor your truck to a certain speed that's a form of control got ELD in there another form of control might start me up a Daddy Trucker Channel better than this bullshit
If enough Truck Drivers quit and tell them the reason why is because when you get paid by the mile you never receive any overtime pay whatsoever none nada Zippo no overtime pay and when the truck is not rolling, you aren't making any money at all. Thats a form of Slavery. Demand to be paid by the hour and demand overtime pay after 8 hours in a day or at least after 40 hours in a week. Do not accept anything less. You're getting cheated. If enough drivers quit they will do something about it. Tell them you quit because you are not willing to work and be paid by the mile. And no overtime pay. Tell them that is the reason. I have a loval milk Tanker truck driving job and i get paid by the hour and overtime pay after 8 hours and I usually work around 11.5 hours. Thsts decent wages. And 2 days off per week. Do not accept anything less. Good Day 😊
Too many weak truckers with tons of debt/excuses/reasons . Look what farmers are doing in Europe and compare it to the no action from American truckers. I have lost hope.
My company is trying to eliminate the hourly pay. To give us a paycut for doing the same thing we been doing for years. It's so disrespectful to us all.
There are a whole bunch of truck driver prospects right across the boarder who'll work for way less than you. Push the system and see how fast they find a way to replace you. And the public won't be very sympathetic.
No drivers means less DOT officers?
Less Teamsters and less pensions. 🦇
Will Ai running these 80,000 to 120,000 lb. know when and where the litter boxes are when the brakes fail?
Gord got a new sub. Thanks for having him on.
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
― Upton Sinclair
Well… Start stealing freight and see how long this lasts on top of the components that are worth thousands of dollars.
Example, Memphis
@392nightrunner tell me about it
😅 I understand everyone is still worried about self-driving trucks. But the Federal need to be focused not only on trucks on the road but they really need to focus on shippers and receivers to be fair. Trucks don't get loaded without warehouses. Warehouses are some of the most unsafe areas more than trucks on the road. Here's my example. How many times have shippers and receivers Taken 2 to 3 hours to load a trailer that normally takes 15 minutes. And seriously there is money to be made off of these warehouses because they shouldn't be taking that long. Fatigue and exhaustion is the biggest problem with this industry. Regardless of what people say it's also affects the self-driving industry because if you think about it the self-driving trucks are going to be the first ones that suffer when nobody's there to check the tires. No one's there to open the doors. No one's going to be there to accept rejected freight. Who's going to be there to let them know that they overloaded the trailer question mark all these variables are going to affect the industry tremendously because all they're doing is trying to take shortcuts on the same thing the air lines are doing the Builders of Airlines are all trying to take shortcuts to remove human interaction from creation shipment and safety. How To Save A Buck here and there. My only wish is that the Federal Motor Carrier with the law enforcement go after the shippers and receivers of product and make sure that they are doing their diligence by showing the public that their sighting the shippers and receivers that do not comply with rules of safety. Driver fatigue stems from not only them taking too long to load. Being efficient enough to communicate the drivers pay for their unjustly detention and holdover in a timely fashion. If they start getting these citations and stop doing these stupid pictures of practices driver fatigue won't be an issue and that will be more cost-effective than just ignoring the problem. And until that happens no matter what they want about automated self-driving trucks. It's never going to make it go away.
Let me know when an AI truck can move heavy and super heavy load the truck strap it and then i'll retire .
never brother, keep on trucking
I found a great place to park, at the Trinity Lutheran Church every Sunday !
Hell yeah great video
I dont see this happening for at least 30 years
Vote me into the FMCSA
1. Brokers regulated to 6%
2. Lower insurance
3. No more Indians in trucking
4. FS is a must
5. Must own property or have a mortgage to acquire an MC
The list continues....
No more foreign drivers that's what wee need!!!
got my vote
@@chapz.1 yes but we need to word it better because public support of truckers is important to improving the industry, as it stands we just get shit on by the general public, and therefore the government feels enabled to take advantage of us to serve the US economy without backlash. Saying "no foreigners/no indians" will not help move the needle in other direction. The issue is that the government let's people with work visas come over because this job has become an undesirable job, but it wasn't always so undesirable. Quality of life as a trucker has devolved into basically living in a third world country. So now we bring in people from third world countries to do the job, further worsening the risk/reward for American truckers. We need to maintain the value of the labor and bringing in cheap labor from overseas is the opposite of this. It's that simple.
I also don't think requiring property ownership or a mortgage should be a requirement to have an MC. Unless you mean you need to have your own truck, whether it's owned or on a payment plan, to own an MC. That way only truckers and former truckers who run their own equipment will be running MC's.
@Gabe4D I understand we need to word it differently but we all know since other drivers from different countries come and drive here for 30 cents a mile and you have 2 or 3 drivers in 1 truck and don't pay insurance they are the ones taking the cheap freight there's companies out there that pay there drivers cash and they don't have there drivers on the policy and these are the once causing the wreckes out there but yet we the owner ops are the ones that have to pay the price at the end.
@@chapz.1 I agree. My mindset is simply that for change to occur the government needs to act and it wouldn't be in the economy's best interests to make these changes even though I agree it's necessary. If the general public views truckers as their modern day slaves and to improve the industry would cost the general public when they go grocery shopping, then the general public needs to be on our side and see the moral implications of it all to be on board, and only then would the government probably take the necessary steps to rectify the issues in this industry. So it is in our best interests to focus on the facts rather than to make comments that make an outsider take one look and go "oh they're racist xenophobic asswipes, they deserve to be miserable truckers. Carry on!"
Hahahahaha… 😂.
Eliminating the driver! That’s crazy!!
One reason why is some drivers I've seen since January of 2020 shouldn't even possess a CDL. Most of them go out, get a loan to buy a $200 thousand dollars rig, rent a trailer, book some loads, and can't even get on a road before putting dings and dents into the rig and trailer, and also drive said equipment WITHOUT insurance, which is a MUST!
I voided out my CDL yesterday I now have a class C a little sad a lot relieved what a sh*t show the industry has become
Every single driverless truck that crashes will be the fault of the owner.
no givesey backsey's
one lawsuit and they will be broke.
I assume these vehicles are EV ? If so how does that play on the current grid system and what does it cost in electricity a year vs paying a driver .my town is getting its first charging station I guess the city gets kickbacks for installing it 🤷♂️
😂 the supply chain is going to slow down, and scarcity of goods is going to change a lot.
Awesome show!!!!!!
Gord is great!
Between the Insurance Industry then these fees...we had an EMERGENCY MEETING the other day at work with ☕️ & 🍩 because one of our tablet friendly apps we use for tracking & billing just wanted out of the blue start charging $25k a month for there app!?!
So, we had an emergency delete from our tablets...no one is going to like this financially once the tech companies think they have what the trucking industry "NEEDS"
The easiest solution and I've said it before and I'll say it again if they get rid of the top heavy Ivory Tower offices the humongous trucking companies run so all these dudes can run around their collared shirts and they're shiny shoes and walk out to their two hundred thousand dollar vehicles at the end of the day and go home if they cut all that executive crap out of their cost of doing business and went autonomous on that end there is the savings!!!
Less say a big 5 company hire someone they give you 4 route in 70 hr in a week The company gains for all 4 load a total of 16,000 $ you're getting paid .50 per mile average of 2800 miles ...now think about it 🤔
Years ago my brother was driving his truck down by TEXAS BORDER. 5 BORDER JUMPERS on his truck. Wouldn't get off. So my brother started drive. BORDER JUMPERS was falling off. One of them hurt his leg. The cops told my brother he would Sue my brother for hurting him.
Illegals dont sue man.
Bro just casually dropped Curtis Yarvin on a trucking podcast?
Based!
What up ALEX
I'm not worried about it It's not gonna happen might happen 50 years from now
Agreed
The thing about it is that they want to test it out with drivers in a self driving truck. They don't care that they working to end truck driving.
If a company doesnt use Freight brokers, they bid it out..
OR Shippers dont pass it on to truck drivers!
I went knocking doors , lots wont use now!!
That's a lot of truck drivers and families that will be on the streets and nobody buying the product that automated trucks deliver
It will only save money until all the trucks are autonomous.
At that point it will be same same as when all the trucks were run by humans.
It's like a guy getting fuel for $1 less a gallon because he is first to get a special fuel card.
Once everyone has that same card ,.. the rates will adjust and the extra profit will disappear.
So who is responsible for safty check.
Relax everyone they can never replace a human to drive a 80,000 pound truck on ice with a robot. lololol, they'll get their system hack, and their will be massive accidents
I want to know if everything goes robotic how these big corporations will make money when we will be all jobless how is that their product will sell
The government has given these big carriers more then that with government subsides
And these big carriers should pay all truck drivers
Anytime you can replace a human with a machine the company saves lots of money.
Who will fuel the trucks ?? Are they going to have people sitting at the pumps like guard booths waiting on self-driving trucks to pull up
Well who will use the showers at pilot if there's no drivers 😂🤣
He said "they want drivers wages gone" which coincides with their overall larger agenda, they want the middle class gone! That might sound crazy but it's true and it's happening. Home ownership is at its lowest level of in over 50 years.
The problem is America itself. America have unfortunately became a strictly outsourcing country. That is the main reason why cost of living is so high. Plus the cost of diesel should be lowered and the price of gas should be raised to offset one another. It would also help if the industry can configure a way to get rid of brokerage all together. And as far as companies trying figure a way to make autonomous trucks i honestly can not blame them because they are trying to keep up with demand because of the state that America is in at the same time being profitable. All because the us dollar doesn't circulate in this country. So we should be upset at our political officials not trucking companies.
Just another chapter in life. When it happens if it happens you will have to just move on to the next thing.
Personally I would try to buy a self driving truck my damn self 😂
States will lose tons of money no driver fines ...no new CDL or renewal and endorsements😂 they ain't gonna allow that
They been working on robots for every job. I watch a brick plant go from 80 workers to 5 workers and office people. They want robots in stores,supermarkets and so on. They want to take as much power from as much people as they can.
The sad thing is we do not realize that we are funding the process by hauling cheap freight and driving for mega carriers. Every time we turn our wheels operating at a deficit, they generate profit which they allocate a certain percentage of (pre tax investment) toward autonomous replacements. If we only had common sense enough to stop the wheels from turning long enough to reallocate the profit. It has to be a shitty feeling going to work everyday knowing you are funding your replacement. Eliminate the excuses, intent is enough for me to take action.
We need TRUCK DRIVERS IN CHARGE TO ACTUALLY HELP
They don’t even send trains without at least 4 men and they are on rails. Don’t worry. We will be working for the foreseeable time.
All truckers should quit so they all would go bankrupt
Lack of driver retention by crap carrier's is what self driving trucks is really meant for.
Tea bag snapping turtles stop that avalanche from sliding down on me.
CONVOY 2 COMING SOON
See you in the media room
Most of them just like to talk now and not work so that’s why they aren’t trucking but just talking. A truck is a wheel barrel so if some John Doe puts a reverse mirror on his wheel barrel and pushes it off the ramp saying I’m watching it makes all the sense to me to know where to call BS. Someone still has to watch the product if you want to stay in business and people need to eat and be humane so we go out to feed America. Could you Imagine what the Cafeteria would look like with out the lunch lady. Vending Machines are almost never used in places where you think they would be used. I would love to drive hands free but even the light rail needs a conductor. What you could do is put your stuff on a plane and improve auto piloting.
Go ahead and replace us then bad rates high insurance high fuel good luck getting your truck fixed on the road within a week if you break down trucking is just about dead. Yall should use this channel to get people organized but unfortunately it's not used for that so it is what it is I'm thankful my equipment is paid off so I can just walk away from it I know everyone isn't there yet but the only way you get people attention is to hit people in there wallet which means strike don't wait til the industry doesn't need you anymore before you do something
If it were truly about safety they would have both a human driver and autonomous systems in the truck....it isn't about safety...it's about the money. Industry only cares about you as much as liability requires.
Shipping rates will go down 70 cents a mile. Nothing will happen to the bottom line.
Yea they can't get the cars to run right, also those trucks will be expensive the time to charge, lost on the expensive parts
Won't happen... CMV robots cost more then meat sacks behind the wheel. Plus, you can't sell a robot on lease purchase.
And what's going to happen to all the drivers who can't support their families... Shit ain't right.
Be like catching a mouse with bear traps. No chance to get free
We are looking forward to self driving trucks. This technology will eventually make it safer, cheaper, more reliable, efficient. Drivers on the highways will appreciate having fewer crazy truckers on the roads. It's an industry ripe for automation. Don't cry about it, invest.
We are categorized as “Professional Truck Drivers”, just as some are considered professional basketball, soccer and football players….. it’s time we get paid as such…especially since we have to get checked out to see if we’re fat every 2 years…
Everything that’s negative about the trucking industry is all thanks to mega carriers. I’d rather stand on the corner holding ad signs than to drive for a mega carrier.
Take on to the wild again
This isn't hiw I lived.
I guess the needed me saved.
Broken window pain.
So thing I can't change
I feel like fish out of a stream
Take me on the wild again.
What u see isn't who I am.
Wondering around again.
How about this, put your autonomous trucks on the road but these companies including the government have to hire the truckers they will replace physically .
The amount of claims will out weigh savings
Instead of that stupid mess that will never work you will come better trying to stop a company from lying before that will happen 100 years from now someone going to drive and they still want be close that's a fact
4-wheeler here weighing in an opinion-this autonomous truck crap is BULLSH#T. It’s nothing but a money grab for companies like Aurora and PACCAR. PACCAR!! WTF?!? I’ll never look at another Pete again with anything but disdain (no disrespect to the drivers behind the wheels).
Eliminate the driver? Maybe, over time in a few select applications. But think this . Who will be the new corporate customers be if every job possible will be eliminated by AI? (My employee is your customer - no jobs no spending money. Saving money is good but if there's no jobs to afford a new car?) If the law of unintended consequence applies here we all go on a basic income . Then where you are in life is where you are. No extra overtime for a new boat. No cabin. No toys in the garage. Picking a random number out of my azz.. $750 week per person . Nation wide. We become directionless drones. No opportunities no purpose etc. Life becomes like one big native American reservation. It's a" brave new world" we live in where not all progress is good progress.
Oh come on guys let's give autonomous a try
I wonder how much sabotage is gonna happen with these trucks. 😊
I really don't see anything wrong with pointing out trucking abuse. low wages. unpaid retention pay, no parking, inflation. Freight brokers having a grip and monopoly on common freight. Mill schools unable to teach drivers basics down shifting going down hill. Quality of new entrants are either deaf, cant speak English and sometimes what seems lack any common sense with no courtesy. The steering wheel holder dilemma. What is come of it where will it go. Get specialized! Get specialized! Get specialized! Has been the only logical answer. With a twist of irony. Were all just walking in circles around this huge pile of manure and pointing our finger at it and covering up our nose. I might think its a nightmare others say its only a bad dream everything dandy.
Imagine being a cat her garden.
A DUMB IDEA PERIOD
Can u imagine if Hillary got elected.
What a Muther Trucking Collab 👍😊
Self driving trucks… Yikes…
Sorry never going to be successful in my book...maybe in 100 years from now
Said the same about electric cars.
It’s all about More Money for Companies sticking the little guy look at The people they are hiring out of the schools with no experience nobody to teach them anything, and they have more accidents than anything. I don’t see how companies are even making any money.💯😎
@@glennevitt5250it’s probably more about the ignorance of truck drivers. As a driver trainer, I came across ALOT of good students with no experience. In my opinion drove better than a lot of 10+ plus year experienced drivers who think they have an un godly blessed from above gift of driving a truck. In reality self driving trucks are just part of the future of automation. There is nothing more to it. Automation is going to effect everything.
@@jbone9900Electric cars are already on the downward spiral… hybrids are the way and are more viable.
@@jbone9900Those electric cars are still driven by real people
Institution in my brain.
There some things they couldn't change.
I wana be free again.
This isn't hiw i lived.
Driving me insane.
Wondering till im death.
I feel a fish. Catch n release
This isn't who i am
Will never happen…I’m in IT. I know! #offline#virus#
Hi Alex
Yo
The only thing holding autonomous back right now is satellite jamming from other countries like Russia and China. How often is your internet down? Once Ukraine and Gaza issues are resolved and we are technically at peace, there will be no satellite jamming. Autonomous systems will remain online.
What happens when there's no jobs to do because they've all been automated? They will have to give people money somehow. You might as well just let us keep our jobs so you don't end up giving us money for just sitting on our butts.
No, it won't. The rates will adjust lower. Trucking always takes the hit.
Ahh come on, you could never have a self driving truck, and anybody who thinks so is too simple minded to know better. What if there's an accident and the police are directing traffic. What if there's an exit that's closed. What if it has to change lanes in a construction zone. What if there's rain or fog and the cameras can't see, or a flying stone breaks a lens. I could name a dozen more reasons why a self driving truck could never work. You cannot build a machine that replaces a human. It's impossible
Also! What do you think is going to happen if no one has a job . Let me know ! Dooms Dayers Go Home , Please !
I love how half these videos are about what American truckers _SHOULD_ be convoying and protesting about but instead as per the usual bigot choose to convoy and protest for Trump and about immigrants... stay genius, you geniuses. 👍🏽🇺🇸👍🏽
I currently work as local delivery driver for Penske logistics. I deliver to local Starbucks accounts. Does anyone know when my job will be automated ? I’m seriously considering going back to school for cybersecurity
The day they can have a robot truck. Get into the Waffle House at Granite City Illinois Exit 3 is the day I will get out of a truck
When was the last time you saw a fat overweight robot driving a truck wearing flop flops and sweatpants and T shirt ?
Bro! Why are you talking to Canadian truck drivers?? We're American! Totally different!
Hes done both and hes a writer and does extensive research in the trucking industry in America.
@MuthaTrucker lol! Ok, Alex! I'm an owner operator and I've been watching your show for years! However, I'm completely against Canadian truckers coming into our country and running our frieght and going back to Canada. It takes away from the little frieght we already have in the United States 🇺🇸
@@AntJohn-o9wHe lives in upstate New York and hauled logs for a trucking company out of NY
If it would save them money then the gubment won’t get to have tax money :)