(1) Speed limits gone. Workers encouraged to drive more recklessly and given tighter deadlines to meet. (2) More truck parking for the same reason. Cities filled with parking lots for truckers to sleep instead of being reasonable distance and deadlines for the routes.
None of this “helps truckers”. This helps truck companies exploit their workers more while making the roads less safe and cities covered in more parking lots.
Another proud moment for capitalistic innovation
It’s an ideal conditioning to double down on some self-driving trucks program.
If you was afraid of driving in tesla yourself, now a 16-wheels tesla can drive into you!
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Since it’s pro-trucker I’m sure it will include:
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Pay for waiting at the dock and stuck in traffic rather than just per-mile, and alternative minimum wage rules ensuring that truckers don’t end up working for pennies per hour.
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Fatigue rules like aviation that account for cumulative fatigue and circadian rhythm.
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Limits on that companies can do with trackers, forbidding their use for “productivity management”.
That stuff is definitely in there, Right?
From the people who brought you “Let’s give ALL the air traffic controllers an incentive to quit immediately and all at once”.
- Bust the unions, less pay for truckers.
- Cheap China meth available in truck stop vending machines
- AI assisting in maximizing profits so truckers are guaranteed to work more and get paid less.
FTFY
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This, but on a grander scale.
Just legalize it federally. Tax the shit out of it. Make money.
Our politicians are dumber than the underwear gnomes on South Park.
Their white board just looks like:
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- Profit.
Well, I laid it out.
I can take pills that don’t work, and break my ability to orgasm, or (as a medical patient) I can control my seizures with something that won’t leave me hung over, and is much healthier, especially if handled in edible form (any sort of smoke is damaging to the lungs)
Oh wait, booze doesn’t control seizures and can provoke them? Why would I want alcohol unless I’m in a very safe place? Like home (where my wife, who has 20+ years of neurology experience can handle any epileptic events properly).
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Yeah, I used to live in Texas and saw that.
When I saw that headline, I said “Well, Steve is fucked.”
Steve was the guy who was usually behind the counter at a LEGAL hemp shop.
He regularly partook of the products, but that just lead to some great recommendations lol.
speed limiters are why trucks take a half hour to pass another truck. saves gas mainly. like any group of drivers, some have no business going 80. much less in a large truck. the wrecks will be worse and more often.
Unless their limiters are not calibrated to the same value, they shouldn’t have to pass each other.
Limiters with adaptative cruise should be the way to go IMHO.
