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CatHedral

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There are shortages of truckers, it's projected 80,000 will be needed in the coming years in the USA alone, in the UK the situation is dire. Look for better pay and working conditions, along with self driving trucks eventually for long distance highway runs.

I wonder what kind of pay a new bottom-rung driver gets in the States.
 

DIY-HP-LED

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Trucks with next generation batteries and this system could make electric trucking a reality. You only need to run wires on 60 to 120 mile stretches of highway to recharge truck batteries on the fly and go for several hundred miles until you recharge again, while on the move using GPS autonav and eventually, no drivers with no gears to change on an EV. You could even use hybrid diesel electric and batteries with the system and they would all have dynamic braking with the electric motors recharging batteries. If it slashed fuel costs I can see owners getting onboard, the pantograph system doesn't look too expensive to mount on a truck compared to a few thousand gallons of diesel.

The highway where trucks work like electric trains

In Lübeck, Germany, there's one of several eHighway test projects: overhead catenary wires, where electric trucks with pantographs can pull power directly from the grid.
 

DIY-HP-LED

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I wonder what kind of pay a new bottom-rung driver gets in the States.
Supply and demand for now, they are getting desperate, it's a big part of the supply chain issues and thousands are due to retire or are croaking. In the UK they had to call in the army to get fuel to gas stations.
 

schuylaar

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There are shortages of truckers, it's projected 80,000 will be needed in the coming years in the USA alone, in the UK the situation is dire. Look for better pay and working conditions, along with self driving trucks eventually for long distance highway runs.

the head of their union said every year 40k licenses are issued; it's not the life you think it is.
 

DIY-HP-LED

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the head of their union said every year 40k licenses are issued; it's not the life you think it is.
Supply and demand, I think you'll see pay and conditions improve, automation in the future will be a big factor and that will depend on electric trucks that don't need to shift gears hauling loads on interstate highways. See my post above for a likely direction that is going in. For now, if ya want people to drive trucks give them the opportunity to train for free and then pay them a decent wage with decent working conditions, problem solved in short order.
 

Dr.Amber Trichome

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I hope everyone had a Happy Halloween! It was so much fun to decorate the tent and enter the contest. Can you vote for me please. Have a nice day. Thanks!
 

smokinrav

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instead of living in a metaverse we have a whole beautiful universe of our own..open your eyes.

This is Monique, trying really hard to love my new memory foam lol.
I rescued her twice from the same shelter. First for my youngest daughter, who quickly lost interest because internet, and again when my ex-bitch drove her 90 miles away to the shelter we got her from 5 years earlier. She didn't tell me and Monique was there for another three months before the grapevine got back to me. I called the shelter and retrieved her (again) in less than 24 hours. 20211024_195118.jpg




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rkymtnman

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I hope everyone had a Happy Halloween! It was so much fun to decorate the tent and enter the contest. Can you vote for me please. Have a nice day. Thanks!
looks like you got that led . nice work!
 

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