Posted on 05/19/2015 7:56:40 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
I’ll say truck collidion repair centers. I predict plenty of work too.
To be good at sales, you have to have the knack, it isn’t something that just anyone can do.
A good example is the days of door to door sales, almost none of those people could sale, and classes couldn’t change them, I saw hundreds and hundreds come and go.
I also saw the old giants of the pre-3 day cancellation clause days come and go, they never adapted to the laws being passed, giving customers 3 days to cancel.
Boiler rooms are the same, very few people can do well, sales is extremely difficult, or else everyone would be selling cars and aluminum siding, or whatever it is today, and begging to work on commission.
High-tech vertical farming facility taking shape in north Pasadena (Texas)
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Good point. A new occupation is born: driverless truck hijacker. True, it's a criminal occupation, but these days we take what we can get.
I don't see how driverless trucks could be well defended. The trucks and their cargo are just property. AFAIK it is not legal to use lethal force to defend property.
I very much like the idea of small communities trying to be self-sufficient. Growing food, and engaging in small-scale manufacturing. I believe that people can build good lives living simply and focusing on their hands, their minds, and their shared skills. Rebuild community in small pockets. Because the globalism thing isn’t working out for the majority of people.
Or a hacker pulls it off the Interstate.
They will adapt or disappear. Tis the nature of change...
Socialism is inevitable. Commoners need jobs to dig ditches. For rations.
Socialism is inevitable. Commoners need jobs to dig ditches. For rations.
“When” and not “if”?
That’ll certainly make me avoid highways. Not that the rigs with drivers make me too fond of the highway now. How would robo-rigs pull over safely in the case of blowouts?
A truckload of cigarettes is worth millions.
Well, since a large part of the systems are very sophisticated computer controlled sensor suites, those robbers would have to be VERY tech savvy not to get caught soon after such a robbery...
Maybe the four and two wheelers will have to take up the slack as clients for the Parking lot lizards?
People give up too early and too easily. Persistence is key. Everything else can be taught to anyone with an IQ over 65. I have been a sales manager and it’s about making x number of calls every day, which is a learning experience in itself. I’ve seen kids hired who knew NOTHING about sales and a year or two later were making six figures. But no, it’s not for everyone. No trade is. Just like the military or medicine. I’d be a terrible mechanic, my mind just doesn’t work that way.
That is the formula, but it is a lot easier said than done, and it takes more than persistence, it takes being able to close, but the persistence is a huge part, and the will to maintain that persistence in the face of constantly take rejection.
There is a reason that few people succeed in difficult sales, the hard core kind, the sales involving self management, little to zero support, and cold calls.
Many people think that sales looks easy, what they don’t realize, is that it is much tougher than regular jobs, a true salesman is someone who never wants to NOT be working for commission, and most people don’t want to work on straight commission.
Kinda the way things were when little towns popped up along the railroads. Obviously things came in and went out by rail but most people worked locally.
My little town was born along a railroad. Actually it was born at a crossroad about a mile south but when the rail arrived the town moved to it. Products that were produced here went out and products produced elsewhere came it.
It’s got to be time tested to be believable. That is, there are so many scenarios that can crop up that an experienced human mind can create a safe solution to and make appropriate responses.
It’s just going to be interesting to see how these trucks respond to icy roads, snow blocked roads where one has to assume where the road is based on sign, tree and building locations, how they deal with oversized agricultural equipment, construction areas where the road guard chick holds up a stop sign. Will there be sensors for overheating flat tires that a human driver can detect by seeing smoke out the rear view mirror? The list of things a human can do is endless that needs to be programmed into the computer and have sensors to detect.
Then there’s going through cities. How does the truck respond to emergency vehicles? Kids running out in front chasing a ball?
The list is endless.
Until this has been successfully road tested for a few years without incidents, THIS IS BULLSHIT!
If it is truly only a few people that master sales, please explain our economy. Some of my best salespeople were recent immigrants who could only speak rudimentary English but wouldn’t take no for an answer.
Vertical farming would be a great industry in small towns.
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