A few years ago I was talking with a guy who worked for International. He said they were not going after fully self driving trucks, but more of a follow the leader setup, where there would be a guy driving a lead truck, and then 3 or 4 other trucks would autonomously follow it. Wonder whatever happened to that.

I could see that working driving for hours on end across the plains, but not in cities.

Don't I remember hearing that most of the driving around the container docks to stage the containers is all fully autonomous now?

On 9/30/2021 6:26 PM, Chuck McCown via AF wrote:
I have a class A cdl. It tempts me. Auto trans and gps it might be fun for a few months. All my trucks are manual. I would not like a solid diet if that. My first dump truck also had a 3 speed brownie. Took a he man to drive that beast. Only time I experienced a total loss of air in traffic. Not fun. That and blowouts take the fun out of things.

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On Sep 30, 2021, at 4:52 PM, Nate Burke <[email protected]> wrote:

 I know nothing about trucking, is $6k/week good? If you have to buy your own $200k rig, and pay for your own fuel and insurance, that would get eaten into quick.

14 hours of driving at an average of 60mph is 840 Miles/day
figure 8 MPG ( totally guessing) 105 gallons/day. Our diesel price is about $3.30 as of today, so that's $340/day of fuel. 6 days of driving is $2k of that $6K gone.

On 9/30/2021 5:43 PM, Steve Jones wrote:
At a trucking firm in chicago we just passed: 36 an hour fleet driver and 6k a week owner operator intermodal transport.
I wonder what intermodal transport is paying for docks in california.
Tempted to get a cdl, but I'm not partial to meth.


On Thu, Sep 30, 2021, 3:39 PM Adam Moffett <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

    I would probably not drive a forklift for $12 an hour even as of
    2 years ago.  I did better than that delivering pizza 20 years ago.

    Maybe they were advertising $12, but I bet they weren't filling
    those positions at $12.


    On 9/30/2021 4:34 PM, Chuck McCown via AF wrote:
    Same place, 2 years ago, $12
    *From:* Steve Jones
    *Sent:* Thursday, September 30, 2021 1:44 PM
    *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group
    *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT Wages
    That's not all that out of the ordinary for seasonal material
    handlers. They pay more outward since they dont have benefits
    On Thu, Sep 30, 2021, 1:42 PM Cameron Crum
    <[email protected]> wrote:

        And you think inflation is bad now.
        On Thu, Sep 30, 2021 at 1:29 PM Chuck McCown via AF
        <[email protected]> wrote:

            I sh*t you not.
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