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(1) Speed limits gone. Workers encouraged to drive more recklessly and given tighter deadlines to meet. (2) More truck parking for the same reason. Cities filled with parking lots for truckers to sleep instead of being reasonable distance and deadlines for the routes.
None of this "helps truckers". This helps truck companies exploit their workers more while making the roads less safe and cities covered in more parking lots.
Another proud moment for capitalistic innovation
According to the linked article It also includes changes to mandated rest periods to help ensure truckers are even more sleep deprived than they already are.
I did see one good provision, allowing to split the 14 hours of driving time with a 30-180 minute break in the middle. But encouraging the mandatory 10 hour rest periods to instead be 2 5 hour rest periods will make for very sleep deprived humans operating 40,000lb machines at 70+MPH
It's an ideal conditioning to double down on some self-driving trucks program.
If you was afraid of driving in tesla yourself, now a 16-wheels tesla can drive into you!
Since it's pro-trucker I'm sure it will include:
Pay for waiting at the dock and stuck in traffic rather than just per-mile, and alternative minimum wage rules ensuring that truckers don't end up working for pennies per hour.
Fatigue rules like aviation that account for cumulative fatigue and circadian rhythm.
Limits on that companies can do with trackers, forbidding their use for "productivity management".
That stuff is definitely in there, Right?
From the people who brought you "Let's give ALL the air traffic controllers an incentive to quit immediately and all at once".
FTFY
speed limiters are why trucks take a half hour to pass another truck. saves gas mainly. like any group of drivers, some have no business going 80. much less in a large truck. the wrecks will be worse and more often.
Unless their limiters are not calibrated to the same value, they shouldn't have to pass each other.
Limiters with adaptative cruise should be the way to go IMHO.
How about "Can partake while driving through a legal weed state instead of waking up hungover" oh wait this country is stupid AF.
This, but on a grander scale.
Just legalize it federally. Tax the shit out of it. Make money.
Our politicians are dumber than the underwear gnomes on South Park.
Their white board just looks like:
Well, I laid it out.
I can take pills that don't work, and break my ability to orgasm, or (as a medical patient) I can control my seizures with something that won't leave me hung over, and is much healthier, especially if handled in edible form (any sort of smoke is damaging to the lungs)
Oh wait, booze doesn't control seizures and can provoke them? Why would I want alcohol unless I'm in a very safe place? Like home (where my wife, who has 20+ years of neurology experience can handle any epileptic events properly).
After being forced to move from California to a dumbass backward southern shithole state because my family moved here and I had nowhere else to go, I got arrested for smoking a LEGAL hemp preroll I bought from a gas station. My mugshot was posted all over the internet and the only way to get it removed from those sites is to prove I was acquitted. Beyond infuriating and ridiculous. But the people here and their nasty gossipy passive aggressive cliquish ways drive me up a fucking wall more than anything. I had to get sober in case they drug test me at court, and they've delayed my court date like 5 times now. The arrest was in November and it's been pushed back to late September. I think they're stalling because I hired a good lawyer and these idiot cops just want to hurt me for their own pleasure. And now I wouldn't dare buy anything since this shithole third world joke of a state just passed a new law making possession of hemp flower, vapes and edibles over 10mg THC a FELONY with up to TEN YEARS in prison. Get this, the law goes into effect July 1st, but enforcement on retail establishments won't begin until Jan 1st 2026 so there will undoubtedly be some unlucky people who have their lives ruined by something that can still be sold everywhere until then. I'm in hell.
Yeah, I used to live in Texas and saw that.
When I saw that headline, I said "Well, Steve is fucked."
Steve was the guy who was usually behind the counter at a LEGAL hemp shop.
He regularly partook of the products, but that just lead to some great recommendations lol.