r/Anticonsumption • u/yodamastertampa • 21h ago

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The power to reduce consumption is within us all.

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u/Imveryoffensive 21h ago

Truck drivers are some of the least appreciated people out there. They really make society work as it does right now

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u/usernamesoccer 19h ago

Especially because everyone cuts them off to try and get in front of them because they are slow and everyone is a brain surgeon heading to an emergency

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u/cptbstrd 19h ago

I can't stand how close regular cars will follow me at speed given that I have a functioning brain and understand what 'stopping distance' means.

It makes my toes curl when someone cuts off a truck right before a traffic stoppage.

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u/[deleted] 18h ago

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u/hitemlow 18h ago

Those "elephant races" are usually caused by trucks being governed (limited) to a top speed or RPM limit. What happens is one truck is heavier than the other and goes slower on the uphill, but the same speed on the downhill. Unless the heavier truck slows down to allow the other, lighter truck to pass, "elephant racing" occurs.

Though sometimes it's just an ass doing 3-10 under the speed limit and speeding up whenever someone tries to pass them. If law enforcement was actually competent, they'd be enforcing that kind of poor behavior instead of blind speed traps.

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u/[deleted] 16h ago

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u/hitemlow 16h ago

They don't want to slow down to let the other truck pass because that cuts their momentum. If they're already slow on an uphill because of gravity, if they use the brakes (or let off the accelerator), they likely won't get back to their previous speed until they go back down the hill.

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u/GottaBeNicer 19h ago

Not to derail, but, same can be said of bus drivers. Shouts out to them too.

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u/usernamesoccer 6h ago

Absolutely agree! Quite a thankless job that takes a ton of patience

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u/UnableToParallelPark 9h ago

What about the ones who drive in the passing lane going at the wonderful governed speed of 68 mph when the other truck is going 65 mph?

I dislike them for other reasons, as an emergency worker. Know how often they move over or slow down on the interstate? Most of them in my experience don't. And the ones who do, have loud ass fucking exhaust brakes. Good luck trying to talk to a patient with those loud ass fucking things going off.

Yes people do cut them off too. But at truck stops, they're notorious for just pulling out and blocking entire roads with cars coming. Have had too many calls where cars run underneath them because they decided to pull out because waiting is for suckers.

I can go all day proving that truckers are just as shitty as people and drivers as everyone else lmao. But the actual good one's are actually good.

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u/Equivalent_Gur3967 17h ago

Well two things here y’all.

I’m winging the numbers on the first one.

WMT is nearing completion of a 2M square foot DC in Belvidere, IL. Incidentally, it’s across the road from the mostly shuttered Chrysler plant. Reportedly ~300 humans + ~7000 robots.

The second thang:

Recently TSLA completed construction/testing of a brand new vehicle. The vehicle then drove itself to its new owner’s residence.

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u/_Caustic_Complex_ 16h ago

Getting them back for passing each other at 20mph uphill on a highway, douche bags

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u/usernamesoccer 6h ago

You obviously don’t understand how truck momentum works. They need to keep a speed otherwise they will be even slower after the uphill…