OK you truckers...
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300rag
It's Not Going to Shift Itself
Hiding from the driver and the escort vehicle. More bleach in the gene pool please.
commando1
Old Man with a Hat
I'd hit the trolly brake hard to come to a sudden stop without my brake lights coming on. Fix his ***.
commando1
Old Man with a Hat
Say, again?
67newport
Old Man with a Hat
Stars Aligned- Five iconic trucks together for the first time
67Monaco
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300rag
It's Not Going to Shift Itself
commando1
Old Man with a Hat
... and the sun visor blocking the top half of the windshield...He's got his seat adjusted like Dave's.
300rag
It's Not Going to Shift Itself
WTF is this????????
300rag
It's Not Going to Shift Itself
commando1
Old Man with a Hat
I think it's a final version of the Kenworth/Walmart concept truck shown a few years ago.
70bigblockdodge
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commando1
Old Man with a Hat
You can see from the pictures the naive Design School Freshman cartoon drawing to production ready real world.
And it started out bad and ended up worse.
F$&@# that is embarrassing.
And it started out bad and ended up worse.
F$&@# that is embarrassing.
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barnfind
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Great idea, but it won't work. The brake lights come on when the trolley is applied. That's now I check my brake lights during my pre-trip insp.
Rigged. Forced into debt. Worked past exhaustion. Left with nothing.
On my "chicket" phone otherwise I'd hum a few bars in an excerpt.
Is any of this true? If so why isnt it a national scandal ..or is it and I missed it? This treatment of drivers is' friggin infuriating!
On my "chicket" phone otherwise I'd hum a few bars in an excerpt.
Is any of this true? If so why isnt it a national scandal ..or is it and I missed it? This treatment of drivers is' friggin infuriating!
commando1
Old Man with a Hat
And they are too fuggin stupid to unionize. Screw'em. Too late now. Teamsters for truckers are dead. Teamsters are staying alive, barely, organizing min. wage cafeteria workers. wtf?? And they ain't paying into my pension. My pension fund is in deep ****.
And IDGAF anymore because everybody sold me Unicorn Glitter for down the road that both sides knew was fiscally impossible to sustain.
Ponzi scheme.
And IDGAF anymore because everybody sold me Unicorn Glitter for down the road that both sides knew was fiscally impossible to sustain.
Ponzi scheme.
you betcha
I dunno about the Teamsters angle fully but I get the gist of your comment nonetheless. Promises made and not kept -- lotta stuff like that in other industries has happened and others percolating ..
So then this USA today thing is about the worst thing I have ever seen -- in America -- in 2017 no less. Seems like its localized to California port drivers (who do go all over the country)? If so, could be why I havent heard of it .. and I keep up with stuff too. Geez.
Article Excerpts:
- Trucking companies force drivers to work against their will – up to 20 hours a day – by threatening to take their trucks and keep the money they paid toward buying them.
- Bosses create a culture of fear by firing drivers, suspending them without pay or reassigning them the lowest-paying routes.
- To keep drivers working, managers at a few companies have physically barred them from going home.
- Employers charge not just for truck leases but for a host of other expenses, including hundreds of dollars a month for insurance and diesel fuel.
- Drivers at many companies say they had no choice but to break federal safety laws that limit truckers to 11 hours on the road each day. Drivers at Pacific 9 Transportation testified that their managers dispatched truckers up to 20 hours a day, then wouldn’t pay them until drivers falsified inspection reports that track hours.
- Many drivers thought they were paying into their truck like a mortgage. Instead, when they lost their job, they discovered they also lost their truck, along with everything they’d paid toward it.
- Retailers could refuse to allow companies with labor violations to truck their goods. Instead they’ve let shipping and logistics contractors hire the lowest bidder, while lobbying on behalf of trucking companies in Sacramento and Washington D.C.
300rag
It's Not Going to Shift Itself
I'm surprised that the longshoremen's union doesn't stop them from moving anything at the port.
commando1
Old Man with a Hat
They have nothing to say. They don't care how the containers get from the terminal to their distribution centers. They have nothing to do with this part of the process. They are out of the loop with a hundred layers between themselves and the driver. A hundred.
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