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- Hey guys, how you doin',
Trucker G here again.
Well, I did a video on autonomous
trucks a few months back
and I'm still gettin' all
kinds of comments on that video
and y'know, I get a lot of messages
and speakin' with a lot
of people on the phone
that, you know, have concerns about it.
And, you know, a few of
the phone calls I've had,
you know, it's guys that
are workin' washin' laundry,
makin' eight bucks an hour,
worried about gettin' into this industry
because they're afraid
that an autonomous trucks
gonna take over, so, they
just, they wanna stay
with that $8, think it
might be better to stay
with that $8 an hour job, you know?
I just don't get it, guys, I really don't.
I don't understand.
If you're only makin' 320
bucks in a 40-hour week
and that's net, mind you, that's net,
that's not gross,
and you're worried
about autonomous trucks,
you know I look at the
comments on the video
and a lot of the comments are
why would you even get
into truckin' if the robots
are gonna take over?
I just, I don't, I really don't get it!
I don't understand your guys'
thinkin' on this, y'know?
The way you're tellin' me is
robots are gonna take over,
I'm gonna be out of a job.
Okay, well, let me put it to you this way.
Robots are eventually gonna
be able to do everybody's job,
so why don't we all just quit workin'.
Yeah, just, every one of
just, just quit workin'
because, heck, robots' gonna
take over anyway, right?
It don't make sense, it really doesn't.
Stop worrying about what might happen
and what's gonna happen,
you gotta make a livin', you know.
Me, personally, I don't
see these robot trucks,
these autonomous trucks
takin' over for a long time
and that's if they ever do, I mean,
and the biggest setback for
them is gonna be lawsuits.
Lawsuits, guys, I mean,
what insurance company is
gonna insure these companies.
And will the rates afford the insurance,
the insurance premiums
work for these companies?
Look at Starsky Robotics, for instance.
They're already layin'
off drivers, you know,
they got an autonomous fleet,
and they're layin' off drivers
'cause they're figurin' out,
heck, they can't make money
with all the maintenance
issues they're havin'
with all these robotic trucks,
or autonomous trucks,
whatever you wanna call it.
So, they're havin' to lay people off.
Think about the logistics
and the infrastructure.
Yeah, we're gonna get 5G, okay,
that's everybody's big thing
is 5G, 5G's gonna be the saving grace.
It's what's gonna make everything happen.
What about the rest of
the logistics, okay?
These mechanics at TA
and all these other shops along the way,
they know nothin' about
these chips and sensors
and everything else on the truck.
So, are you gonna man all these cities
and towns and, with people that,
that know how to fix these trucks?
Or am I gonna have to have the truck towed
from where it breaks down
in Nine Hole, Missouri,
all the way to Silicon Valley, California?
Because that's the only people
that know how to work on it.
You know, the logistics,
it's just not gonna work out,
it's not working out, you know?
Are you gonna get all these people
to move to all these
different little podunk towns
and other cities just so they
can work on these trucks?
They're just, the logistics
just ain't there, guys.
I don't see it.
There's so much other
things that, you know,
that aren't gonna work.
The maintenance, like I was
talkin' about, the maintenance
on these trucks, I mean, heck,
Facebook and Microsoft and all
these other tech companies,
or even credit card companies,
can't stop the hackers from hackin' in.
What're we gonna do about that?
Oh, but, the answer that
I keep hearin' from people
is well, they're puttin'
billions of dollars
to figure that out.
Well they been puttin' billions of dollars
to figure that all out for years now,
and there are still hackers
that are hackin' into the systems.
You don't think that they're
gonna want to hack into the,
into a trucking company?
You know, some 14-year-old
kid in his basement,
that's pretty cool to get
into a trucking company
and start creatin' havoc
like "Grand Theft Auto".
Or even a terrorist, you know,
it's things like that.
There's all kinds of different
things that can go wrong.
And the biggest obstacle
is gonna be lawsuits, guys,
and the insurance companies.
That's my two cents on it, I mean,
we can go 'round and 'round,
you guys can tell me how wrong I am,
there's gonna be a million
other people that agree with me.
It really don't matter.
I'm gonna keep truckin' down
the road til the day comes
that I can't truck no more.
But if you're thinking about
gettin' into this industry
and you're not doin' it
because you're afraid to lose
that $8 an hour job,
that's on you, my friend.
I mean, I'm sorry, I hope
you can feed your family
with that amount of money, I know I can't.
Well, I wanna wish you all the best,
like I said, this is
gonna be an issue that
I'm just not gonna win, it doesn't matter,
it's kind of religion and
politics type issue in trucking,
you know, you're just not gonna win.
And I don't care to win.
I'm doin' just fine the way, where I'm at.
Y'all be safe out there,
appreciate you for watchin'.
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