Post by Struth on May 1, 2021 4:57:38 GMT 8
A while ago I decided it was time to go back on the road as an interstate truck driver.
I made this decision based entirely on the socialist power grab of 2020 under the guise of a cold virus.
For one, I needed to get across borders.
I have elderly parents and relatives interstate.
It was achieved, and with minimal fuss.
Yet I have now given away the job.
My friends in the industry have one of the biggest transport companies in Australia.
It is not a publicly listed company.
But very big.
I went down to South Australia to start work, which allowed me to see my parents in that state as well.
They presented me with a brand new Kenworth 610 and I was on my way.
First trip was taking a road train to Perth.
However, there was a big problem.
Not for the life of me could I have ever envisaged that they would have loaded every truck in their fleet with very invasive, and in reality, quite dangerous, digital technology.
I never thought they would have succumbed to this insanity, but they had.
The pressure applied to companies in all sorts of industries is overwhelming, due of course, to socialist government's need to control the means of production.
Loaded into the trucks are cameras facing the driver, complete with a program that sets of an alarm if it thinks you are tired, which also vibrates the seat.
This video of you is watched by all and sundry.
Constantly.
If they think you are tired you will get a phone call.
Forward and reverse dash cam.
Lane crossing alarm.
ECB computer braking coupled to a radar system mounted in the bullbar which will slow you down if you get too close to the vehicle in front etc.
Yes, the truck, not the driver, or more correctly, the computer will apply the brakes if it thinks it needs to.
Anyone with half a brain could tell you what a dangerous situation that can become.
But the worst thing of all was a computer telling me when to have breaks, for how long, and it is rigidly set to follow log book regulations to the second.
Once I had found out all this bullshit was in the truck, I nearly did not start, and I let it be well known I would not drive with a camera on me, let alone all this other rubbish.
My old friends, owners of the company, said they really had no choice in putting this crap into the trucks (which of course, is bullshit) because they save over a million dollars a year in insurance, and it's too hard to operate a big company and go against the socialist swamp of government that wants this shit imposed.
Every truck in Australia will have this in them, they assured me.........
After quite a heated discussion, I decided to do a few months and get out, just to make up the money the Socialist coup d etat had cost me in lost earnings from closing down my industries.
I managed a few weeks.
Anyone reading the above and thinking to themselves that some of those technologies don't seem so bad, some seem like good ideas, let me assure you, the reality is, it is very dangerous, and it is nothing short of invasive, digital tyranny.
When you live in a truck, having a camera on you is disgusting, and the people who agree with doing this, and watching on the other end, have some real integrity issues they need to think about.
But when you are driving a 100 tonne road train down the road, only one entity should be driving.
Not sharing the emergency decision making process between man and computer.
A very big disaster will be the result.
A driver, who can see all around him, may wish to power out of a tight spot, maybe, while changing lanes, where the computer, only taking the information of it's forward facing radar, will apply the brakes!!!!
It may also surprise you to know that truck drivers used to often "doctor" their log books to give themselves better rest, and to remain less fatigued.
I was one of them.
Let me explain.
If I finished work at midnight, and by law I was required to have a twenty four hour break, when can I next start working, according to dumb log book regulations?
That's right.....midnight.
Our Australian log book was written by public servants who have no concept of competition and cost.
We must therefore go at midnight.
For fourteen legal hours after that, I may add.
So old hands like me, would leave early, and go down the road and go to bed, sleeping in the ungodly hours, and put it down that we drove from midnight.
This allowed our body clocks to better keep us from being "fatigued" .
The computer makes these little transgressions impossible, and complying with the actual log book regulations makes you a fatigued wreck.
Anyway, you get the idea.
But indebted men become slaves.
And the men putting up with this, well, I can't call them men.
They have lost their privacy, they are under constant surveillance and are being told what to do and when to do it by a computer.
When you are not doing what the computer wants you too, buzzers and seat shaking are your lived experience.
Slaves......... more thoroughly controlled than a slave owner of the past could have dreamed of.
........So they got told to jam their new truck up their arse.
I'm disgusted with them.
I made this decision based entirely on the socialist power grab of 2020 under the guise of a cold virus.
For one, I needed to get across borders.
I have elderly parents and relatives interstate.
It was achieved, and with minimal fuss.
Yet I have now given away the job.
My friends in the industry have one of the biggest transport companies in Australia.
It is not a publicly listed company.
But very big.
I went down to South Australia to start work, which allowed me to see my parents in that state as well.
They presented me with a brand new Kenworth 610 and I was on my way.
First trip was taking a road train to Perth.
However, there was a big problem.
Not for the life of me could I have ever envisaged that they would have loaded every truck in their fleet with very invasive, and in reality, quite dangerous, digital technology.
I never thought they would have succumbed to this insanity, but they had.
The pressure applied to companies in all sorts of industries is overwhelming, due of course, to socialist government's need to control the means of production.
Loaded into the trucks are cameras facing the driver, complete with a program that sets of an alarm if it thinks you are tired, which also vibrates the seat.
This video of you is watched by all and sundry.
Constantly.
If they think you are tired you will get a phone call.
Forward and reverse dash cam.
Lane crossing alarm.
ECB computer braking coupled to a radar system mounted in the bullbar which will slow you down if you get too close to the vehicle in front etc.
Yes, the truck, not the driver, or more correctly, the computer will apply the brakes if it thinks it needs to.
Anyone with half a brain could tell you what a dangerous situation that can become.
But the worst thing of all was a computer telling me when to have breaks, for how long, and it is rigidly set to follow log book regulations to the second.
Once I had found out all this bullshit was in the truck, I nearly did not start, and I let it be well known I would not drive with a camera on me, let alone all this other rubbish.
My old friends, owners of the company, said they really had no choice in putting this crap into the trucks (which of course, is bullshit) because they save over a million dollars a year in insurance, and it's too hard to operate a big company and go against the socialist swamp of government that wants this shit imposed.
Every truck in Australia will have this in them, they assured me.........
After quite a heated discussion, I decided to do a few months and get out, just to make up the money the Socialist coup d etat had cost me in lost earnings from closing down my industries.
I managed a few weeks.
Anyone reading the above and thinking to themselves that some of those technologies don't seem so bad, some seem like good ideas, let me assure you, the reality is, it is very dangerous, and it is nothing short of invasive, digital tyranny.
When you live in a truck, having a camera on you is disgusting, and the people who agree with doing this, and watching on the other end, have some real integrity issues they need to think about.
But when you are driving a 100 tonne road train down the road, only one entity should be driving.
Not sharing the emergency decision making process between man and computer.
A very big disaster will be the result.
A driver, who can see all around him, may wish to power out of a tight spot, maybe, while changing lanes, where the computer, only taking the information of it's forward facing radar, will apply the brakes!!!!
It may also surprise you to know that truck drivers used to often "doctor" their log books to give themselves better rest, and to remain less fatigued.
I was one of them.
Let me explain.
If I finished work at midnight, and by law I was required to have a twenty four hour break, when can I next start working, according to dumb log book regulations?
That's right.....midnight.
Our Australian log book was written by public servants who have no concept of competition and cost.
We must therefore go at midnight.
For fourteen legal hours after that, I may add.
So old hands like me, would leave early, and go down the road and go to bed, sleeping in the ungodly hours, and put it down that we drove from midnight.
This allowed our body clocks to better keep us from being "fatigued" .
The computer makes these little transgressions impossible, and complying with the actual log book regulations makes you a fatigued wreck.
Anyway, you get the idea.
But indebted men become slaves.
And the men putting up with this, well, I can't call them men.
They have lost their privacy, they are under constant surveillance and are being told what to do and when to do it by a computer.
When you are not doing what the computer wants you too, buzzers and seat shaking are your lived experience.
Slaves......... more thoroughly controlled than a slave owner of the past could have dreamed of.
........So they got told to jam their new truck up their arse.
I'm disgusted with them.