@obeto
TL;DR now harder to sue #Trucking companies for #manslaughter etc in #Texas #Florida #Iowa and other states b/c #lobbyists

#Pedestrians #Cycling #Freeways #Insurance

Phantom 309 listen to that song and take a look at this truck #Phantom309 #trucking #trucker #Peterbilt #photo #photography #photooftheday

Saturday morning #trucking. Hurry to get it here by the crack of dawn, then wait for half an hour while they get ready for the load. Beautiful day in Bradenton, Fl. Probably going to wake up some of the neighbors when we fire it up.

#Truckers #Trucking #Surveillance #ELDs #USA: "Levy’s splendid new book, “Data Driven: Truckers, Technology, and the New Workplace Surveillance,” is a rigorous and surprisingly entertaining ethnographic portrait of a profession in transition. Although truckers have always been technologically savvy subjects—they were early adopters of such novelties as CB radio—they now had to grow accustomed to life as technology’s object. When she began her field work, electronic logging devices—E.L.D.s—were a looming threat on the horizon. In 2017, they became a legal requirement, but their industrial applications have gone well beyond the basic federal mandate. Trucking companies realized that they could enhance these devices to do things such as track fuel efficiency in real time. In one sense, this was an old story: strict managerial oversight in the service of productive rationalization was a hallmark of the Industrial Revolution. In another, however, the extension of such scrutiny to the fundamentally antinomian culture of trucking was a relevant novelty. With the pandemic, remote workplace surveillance of the otherwise aloof has become an increasingly common intrusion. Truckers, as she said in an interview with the trucker show “Land Line Now,” were “the canaries in the coal mine.”"

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-inquiry/surveillance-and-the-loneliness-of-the-long-distance-trucker

20 #DMV Employees Charged in Scheme That Put Hundreds of Unlicensed Truck Drivers on the Road

#news
#transportation
#trucking

https://cdllife.com/2022/california-prosecutes-20-for-dmv-scheme-that-put-hundreds-of-unqualified-commercial-drivers-on-the-nations-highways/