Posted on 08/20/2017 10:30:29 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
My truck driving friends tell me that JB Hunt will hire ANYBODY.Was in a rest area bathroom on I71,somebody wrote JB HUNT TRAINING WHEEL on the TV dispenser.
TP dispenser.
It’s very annoying to have the misfortune of falling in behind a JB Hunt truck on a two lane road, I do know that. Very s-l-o-w and prone to causing the traffic that they’ve backed up to miss the green lights. It can get a little nutty and dangerous, with so many trying to blow past them in passing zones. I can recognize that yellow and brown logo from a ways off, lol, I’ve sat behind them enough.
You’d be surprised to know how many engineers and scientists in Texas are still looking for jobs. And they are willing to relocate.
Without major increase in highway infrastructure, we will have the big rigs literally locked in massive traffic jams. This is why companies like Amazon and WalMart are looking into having giant blimps the sky to hold some of the merchandise. Eventually, you will be able to have items dropped into your backyard or front porch from those blimps. Probably at first by GPS-guided parachutes but eventually armies of drones.
Neighborhood ice cream trucks will soon be replaced by ice cream blimps. Children will be pointing their devices into the sky and ordering sno-cones and ice cream sandwiches from a passing ice cream blimp. The frozen treats will come floating right into the yards on little parachutes guided by GPS to their mobile devices. This is how we will eventually get pizzas and other fast food delivered.
I'm not kidding. Billions of dollars are now being invested in this "cloud" infrastructure. Soon the cloud will no longer pertain just to data but also to actual product.
Get back to me when they have made driverless trains a reality.
That is a great deal less complex and yet they only places they have tried to do it is on metro systems where they can get to them right away.
Driverless trucks not going to happen in the near future.
Now, remotely driven trucks may. It would be much more practical to have remotely driven trucks, you can have the truck in motion 24 hours a day but have operators working eight hour shifts. No over time, no time away from their families.
Being a supervisor that has to hire drivers for a fleet of construction equipment my number one rule other than strictly enforcing drug testing is to NOT to hire a Muslim.
Take that CAIR trolls!
And stories about greedy Americans driving and driving, to and fro, driving and driving. In their Big SUVs.
Brightly colors blimps with the red and yellow McDonalds logo will be floating over the neighborhoods of America. Periodically ejecting drones with sacks of hamburgers, fries, chicken nuggets, hot apple pies, shakes and other yet to be invented fast food menu items. Yes, they will still have the Egg McMuffin available 24/7!
On board the blimp will be a full McDonalds crew, hurrying to keep up with the orders from down below. The airborne grills, fry vats and blenders will all be working overtime at 2,000 feet!
You will be sitting out on your patio and your grandkids will excitedly clamor that a McDonalds blimp is passing overhead. You then electronically move $100 to their ApplePay account and they will place their order and sit out in the lawn excitably waiting for the moment when their food order will magically drop out of the sky and into their hungry little hands.
Now it just doesn't get more American than that!
Ten years ago, my understanding was they were primarily used for drug dealing.
If I had the power to start my own small town, I'd ensure that there would never, ever be a corporate income tax. Local pols like corporate taxes because they are essentially ways of externalizing their money grabbing. Corporate taxes are ultimately paid by consumers, so all taxes on corporations (other than the local burger joints) fall on mostly out-of-towners with no vote in the matter. In my perfect small town, the city fathers would understand that corporate employees pay their individual taxes to the town, and that's enough. We would welcome businesses that bring jobs and commerce to town, and we wouldn't try to gouge them for every penny they can pass along.
On the other side of the coin, however, I'd require corporations to post a bond and/or establish a reserve account to pay for the removal of buildings and site remediation if and when the company leaves town. If the company keeps the property clean and usable, and finds a buyer when it leaves, it would get its money back with accumulated interest. The long-term remediation obligation would pass to the new owner. Otherwise, businesses would know that they have to clean up their mess on the way out of town. The funds would have been set aside in advance, and the company would have a heightened interest in operating as cleanly as possible in order to reclaim the escrow. We wouldn't have the rustbelt blight that afflicts so many towns and cities when an industry departs.
The build of new trucks this year is about 10% higher than was expected just a few months ago. The OEMs can’t seem to crank them out fast enough.
I drove from Arizona to Tennessee last October. Two things I noticed once I got east of the Dallas metro area...lots of trees and lots of 18 wheelers.
Coal trains southbound, containers on flat cars northbound & lots of tankers through the beautiful Tennessee Valley. I 75 full of truck traffic both directions.
It would be better for the economy to have more trains running as it costs less overhead to ship thousands of truckloads of items over 1000 miles if this were done, Truck driving jobs in should be more done for short hauls and express hauls.
I was on the first JPADS (Joint Precision Air Drop System) air drop in a combat zone in 2006. It allowed us to drop CDS (Container Delivery System) from a much higher and safer altitude and use GPS to steer it right on target. I'm surprised it's taken this long to use the same concept for precision delivery from aerial platforms in the civilian sector.
Last week I saw a “driverless” semi rig being checked out on I-280. Had a bank of cameras on top that tracked adjacent traffic, watched one acquire me coming up on ramp as I got on freeway. It had a driver in it.
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