Ohio und Indiana testen LKW -Platooning, bei dem ein Fahrer zwei Lastwagen kontrollieren kann. Dies könnte dazu beitragen, mit dem amerikanischen Lkw -Fahrermangel umzugehen.
https://spectrum.ieee.org/truck-platooning-ohio-indiana
Ohio und Indiana testen LKW -Platooning, bei dem ein Fahrer zwei Lastwagen kontrollieren kann. Dies könnte dazu beitragen, mit dem amerikanischen Lkw -Fahrermangel umzugehen.
https://spectrum.ieee.org/truck-platooning-ohio-indiana
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Could this technology be extended in the future to support one driver driving more than two trucks? What could this mean for the trucking industry as a whole?
What makes this more advantageous than just piggybacking two trailers on one tractor? In the Western United States I frequently see three piggybacked onto a single tractor.
Edit: it’s a legitimate good faith question that could be answered without a down vote.
„Boost safety“, huh?
Trains would be 1,000 times safer.
This only works for certain routes, probably only between distros. And that’s only if they drive on the road 100% by the book, which I can tell you right now that’s not what’s happening. They are underpaid for ridiculous routes that sometimes don’t even exist.
Instead of paying them something worth losing the feeling in their feet for, let’s tack on extra workload to the poor fuck thats trying to get his retirement and get out.
You do realize as with many of these shortages it’s not that their is a „truck driver shortage“. It’s a profitable enough to live shortage with a outcome being fewer truck drivers willing to work atom thin margins to drive.
This is another pulling the bootstraps until they snap issue. From a technology progression unmanned trucking is inevitable. That said there is no talk about how to help these people who will be pushed out. Let the invisible hand handle that LOL!
There will be no shortage of drivers as more and more long hauls are made fully automated self driving. This seems like un unnecessary stop gap and I bet less safe than just letting Trucks drive themselves as it creates a space drivers don’t dare to merge into.
As a truck driver, the truck driver shortage is a myth. The trucking industry created this myth so they’d have a constant supply of new drivers so they don’t have to pay a decent wage. Most new drivers work 60-70 hours a week and make around $1000. It’s less than $20 an hour with no overtime because you get paid by the mile. Most jobs will keep you out 3 weeks and then you get three days off. The turnover rate for the mega trucking companies is often more then 100%.
Driver shortages? LoL
If anything, there’s an overage of drivers. When COVID hit, everyone and their mother started a trucking company because it was in high demand and relatively easy to do. Now, spot prices on load boards suck and it’s pointless to start a business in trucking.
„…With one driver effectively operating two trucks, the system extends fleet capacity without doubling head count. “
So, what happens when some idiot driver gets between the two trucks? This is only one of dozens (hundreds) of situations that could go seriously wrong.
Or… Pay drivers well and you will attract drivers to cover the shortage.