Well this should help with our supply issues.
Canadian province shuts down 39 trucking companies involved in Freedom Convoy protests
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Well this should help with our supply issues.
TuSimple, a seven-year-old startup, aims to have a fleet of self-driving trucks hauling freight by the end of 2023. The driver shortage is so bad that American trucking companies are trying to import drivers to ease what has become one of the most acute bottlenecks of the supply chain crisis.Mar 19, 2022
https://www.bloomberg.com › articles
https://www.bloomberg.com › articles
Self-Driving Trucks Could Replace 90% of Long-Haul Jobs - Bloomberg
obviously where things will go eventually but we ain't there right now and firing the trucking companies is about as bright as firing health care workers turned out to be.
An AI, Full of sensors, tied into a modern truck full of sensors, with these extremely problematic DPF/DEF systems….wow…. I don’t think that’s gonna improve a whole lot beyond taking logbooks and throwing them out the windows with trucks able to drive 24/7 as long as all of the sensors are happy…. which is almost never. Good times.
CNG/LNG, electric or hydrogen. Take your pick.
Id be considering a string of service trucks to handle breakdowns nationwide if I were a younger man.
PS Tomorrow Trudeau will be bankrolling "big energy" (formerly known as big oil) to fund cracking and exporting the hydrogen from hydrocarbons.
PPS Oil Sands are hitting record outputs this year.
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Getting a tire changed roadside, by a service truck, in the US, can be a $2000 USD tag (and not a great tire, but working in the mileage both directions) plus downtime.
(Currently a North American system utilizing any of the non-diesel alternatives isn’t a real thing. Some day we might be but I’m still waiting for my flying car and jet back, but we are not there on those fronts either.)
We just had a guy down in Minnesota for two weeks because of dash lights leading to limp mode, and most things always go back to DPF/DEF vs Global supply chain issues for parts….it’s absolutely gross. This input sensor is not balancing with that output sensor… which trips other sensors including vexatious programming sensors (to keep you from ignoring some of the other sensors)… leading to 5 mph limp Mode. Good times.
So many other variables on a modern diesel vehicle also have sensors that tie back to the DPF/DEF sensors…. that freak them out and put the vehicle into limp mode and then total shut down… now add in an AI with its sensors on top of all the other sensors in a modern truck (that tend not to play well with each other, intentionally or otherwise), and I could see this being an absolute Freak’n nightmare.
Sometimes I think the only thing that keeps our fleet moving at times is just the drivers utter and sheer frustration about being broke down in the middle of absolutely freaking nowhere…. and they will push a vehicle that’s got warning lights on it that eventually the lights will go out… and sometimes when they get home and get to a dealership, they can’t even find the goddamn codes that were tripped because there’s no record of them… because they self cleared. “Duh… how are we supposed to fix it when it’s not broken there Boss? That will be $190 per hour for diagnostics for finding nothing x 2.5 hours due to proprietary software and diagnostic tools.”
One of the three (or four) DEF Heaters on a diesel truck goes out (does it matter that it’s +20°C), Will put the truck into lit mode until it’s replaced. That heater was back ordered indefinitely at the time, and the truck was too new to have a workaround or an aftermarket alternative and that left the truck sitting in North Dakota for over two months!!!
The ambient air temperature sensor (which for most people when they’re driving tells them what the temperature is outside the vehicle…) Goes on one of these trucks and it puts it into limp mode because the ambient air temperature sensor ties into these other sensors which tired to the DPF after exhaust treatment sensors…. and the truck is parked until the sensor can be sourced and shipped during a global supply chain goat rodeo.
Boomer isn’t here to bitch, so consider me his surrogate for the rant.
I know, right? 2000 was twenty-two years ago!
I want my damn flying car! And my jet pack!
I blame. . . *twirls the Spinner O' Blame*. . . Dr Fauci!
You arent using a blutooth OBDII and a reader app? Its $5 for the app and $12 for vehicle specfic codes. They do cool shit like HP and torques, all the guages, live fuel mileage, trip feature keeps track of drive and stop times, litres used, distance CO2 output etc
The dongles are $15 on eBay.
One that reads airbags system codes is $120
The dongles are $15 on eBay.
One that reads airbags system codes is $120
Weirdly enough, much of that could be read by an ELD now, but much of the software is proprietary to specific manufacturers (Kenworth, Freightliner, Peterbilt, etc…) and the codes only tell you so much (leading to the infamous problem tree of bankruptcy)….
Even in a shop situation they read a code and it could be one of nine possible issues, & and mechanics are not trained to think anymore in a problem-solving manner. They just start at the top of the problem tree and throw parts at it, and if the first limb on the problem tree doesn’t cure it, they moved to number two and throw parts at it, and hopefully by number nine they fixed it. Good times.
You’ve got a continent full of diesel repair facilities trying to make up for two years of Covid on every single freaking customer.
Even in a shop situation they read a code and it could be one of nine possible issues, & and mechanics are not trained to think anymore in a problem-solving manner. They just start at the top of the problem tree and throw parts at it, and if the first limb on the problem tree doesn’t cure it, they moved to number two and throw parts at it, and hopefully by number nine they fixed it. Good times.
You’ve got a continent full of diesel repair facilities trying to make up for two years of Covid on every single freaking customer.
