Tesla Semi Rant by an experienced truck driver

[oktane]

Money talks. If it truly saves money over diesel then they will convert. Do they get FUSC?

 

[brkaus]

Money talks. If it truly saves money over diesel then they will convert. Do they get FUSC?

I believe they get $0.07 kWh electricity.

 

[Tracking]

Funny thing is, he contradicts himself quite often, and ends up more or less converted towards the end

You made it to the end?

When I consider the "on paper" potential of the Tesla Semi, and consider the unintelligent, overly-profane ranting of this anti-Tesla truck driver, I am encouraged. The Tesla Semi appears highly likely to succeed brilliantly.

 

[Super_Popular]

I made it 1:41

 

[rypalmer]

Wow.

 

[Farmertom]

Truckers are proud that they can wrangle a 18 wheeler all day (and night). Those trucks are a handfull with ineffective brakes, poor accelleration, evil handling, foul smelling, highly polluting, loud, dangerous and generally despised by the general public.

People hate to be stuck behind a belching diesel truck. They drop and flip up items that crack cars windshields, block their view, and tear up the roads. They are sluggish and stay seperate from smaller vehicles.

They have been long suffering and provide the lifeblood of the worlds economy. They are kind of the heros we hate.

They embrace improvements, but not much change. Their trucks are like dinosaurs, and dwarf normal cars.

Electric trucks will hugely enhance our world, but the change will be challenging and tough on them. Only natural for them to voice some resistance to something that they have never experienced.

In the beginning these electric trucks will make their drivers lives much better, but there is the thought that some day the trucks will navigate themselves and the driver un necessary.

If the cost of operation is lower than for diesels, the fleet owners will be all over their adaptation

Uncle Paul, they aren't that bad. Making a living in a truck ain't that bad and won't change that much, your still away from your family for days on end and truckers and truck stops aren't going to change. Living on the road can be a very good life regardless of what you run, it has very little to do with the equipment. It's human nature.

Your still going to get debris, these units still have the same number of wheels and weigh the same and they are still big, that's not going to change. Compared to sports cars they are still going to be big huge lumbering vehicles on the road.

Their adaption may be tamed by weight if they are as heavy as I think they are. Battery technology may change this in the future. The cost of electricity may skyrocket as well if demand goes through the roof.

 

[Farmertom]

This guy is crude LOL. FYI, this not the attitude of the typical trucker.

Kudos to Elon for getting the ball rolling. He's really sticking his neck out for this venture.

Although I don't believe this will effect climate change it should help reduce pollution marginally. We need to do far more than convert transportation to electricity to mitigate man's contribution to climate change but that's a whole other topic.

 

[Kipernicus]

Here is a response by a truck driver and Tesla owner:

 

[kbM3]

Here is a response by a truck driver and Tesla owner:

I’ve actually met Zac. Great guy.