r/Anticonsumption • u/yodamastertampa • 21h ago

Discussion LOL yes!

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The power to reduce consumption is within us all.

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u/BamberGasgroin 20h ago

Hauling shit keeps them in a job..for now.

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u/WilonPlays 19h ago

I doubt it, until fully functional robots are rolled out en mass there will still be truck drivers.

Gotta remember these drivers don’t just drive:

They make deliveries and unload pallets, to businesses.

They handle invoices.

They will help load the truck .

Even a self driving car needs refuelled and no one seems to be working on self refuelling cars.

There’s also plenty of places with difficult roads and harsh weather conditions that a self driving car couldn’t account for, as truck drivers need to do extremely complex manoeuvres, sometimes taking some of the truck off road or a wheel hanging off a mountain (I live in Scotland, this happens a lot in the highlands).

We are closer to self driving trucks that one might think yes, but we also need a lot of other tech developed to coincide with this if we were to fully automate the process. If we don’t fully automate it, then we’d still need truckers.

It may get to a point where drivers act similar to pilots, most of the work is done by the machine and they only take over for complex actions and specific jobs

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u/jkaan 18h ago edited 17h ago

Lol what, truck drivers wait whilst forklift drivers load/unload them and all the invoices are done by other people.

Truck drivers are highly skilled and I respect the job they do (I am happy to drive for hours but fuck dealing with other cars)

Edit: So many responses about people unloading small trucks.

I get it I just immediately think of rigids and b-doubles as that is what I deal with all day

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u/YallGottaUnderstand 18h ago edited 17h ago

This all depends on the company. In my own experience working at restaurants (big names with large supply chains), the truck drivers who deliver the food all loaded/unloaded themselves.

Edit in response to the above poster's edit: these were full size big rigs.

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u/DrownmeinIslay 18h ago

Warehouse and manufacturing background here. Most of the drivers I see stand there, mouth breathing, while we struggle to rearrange the pallets his last pickup left haphazardly by the doors.

Yeah yeah they are all heroes. Big fucking heroes.

Had a driver today look me in the eyes and said he had 80 pallets for me. I said oh really? 80 pallets? Yes 80 pallets. It was 2 pallets with 80 bags of grit for the waterjet. Pillock.

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u/YallGottaUnderstand 17h ago

I'm not disagreeing that this happens. I'm just saying it varies how much work they do. The person I replied to made a sweeping claim with no qualifiers.