How do you see the Future in Trucking?
#11
Yeah, the HOS will probably be 9 to 5 within the next 10 years. :P
#12
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Join Date: May 2007
Location: Goleta, Ca
Posts: 39
That's kind of what I'm doing now. I'm a resident driver living a little over 100 miles west of L.A., in Santa Barbara. I have a round trip route of 320 miles total, heading north to Paso Robles/Cambria and back home when I'm done. I work between 8 and 11 hours a night. A transfer driver brings my load up to me and then he delivers south back to L.A. Only difference is I don't deliver trailers, drop them and then hook up another. I actually unload about half of a 53 foot trailer with eleven stops a night on the central coast. I love it, no more OTR and I see my family everyday.
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#14
As far as the Spanish-speaking part, maybe someone will get lucky and invent a, portable, universal translator.
Wear this thing like a, hell, integrate it into a Bluetooth, and you could kiss "No-Comprendo" bye-bye. Either the mono-linguals will get along great, or they'll freak out and run back to where they came.
#17
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Southern Maryland
Posts: 391
Originally Posted by Jnizle
Vote REPUBLICAN :twisted: and MEXICO will be delivering AMERICA :cry: !
#18
I predict HHG to start going into freight trailers and PODS even more.
I predict Hillary will be president and have a "cigar inciden" with a hot young intern (male or female) I predict the rebirth of 57ft trailers. I predict my otr career will yield me a few ex wives, a few stepchildren, and that I may finally get my Napolean Dynamite dance routine down.
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#20
Because of the costs of operating big trucks, I believe in the next 10 years, they will have new ways of hauling freight.
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