July 23, 2024 • 7 mins
In the height of irony Lytx and Samsara are listed on the ATA website as sponsors of National Truck Driver Appreciation Week 2024. Hilarious. The American Trucking Association allows them to be a sponsor when, in my opinion, hardly any companies have done more to harm the trucking industry than these two. How many truck … Continue reading Lytx and Samsara sponsor NTDAW | #189
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(00:00):
Hello. Hello and welcome to trucking answers.
It's Mark trucking interest host.
Welcome.
Or welcome back.
So
truck driver
appreciation week is coming up the second week
of September.
So get ready for all the love to
be heap upon you depending on
(00:20):
where you go and where you work.
Now, I was peru
the Ata American Trucking
Association site
because they have
their driver
appreciation week, store open.
That's right. You can go on their store
and by merch. And I actually don't know
if you can buy it as an individual
(00:41):
or not. So not sure about that.
But there's a logo, national truck appreciation week
20 24.
They have shirts and hats and mugs that
kind of thing that you can buy. I
assume you're getting them as a company and
you'd give them out to your drivers or
you know, whatever you're doing staff in the
office. No idea.
(01:04):
But you can do that. And so that's
all great. Because we know we love the
American Trucking Association, nobody does more for trucking.
Right?
So when you look at the bot, I
can't even believe I barely saying this stuff.
When you go to the bottom of the
page, there are sponsors for national truck driver
appreciation week, and there's like gold level and
civil, there's different levels of sponsorship.
(01:26):
To, you know, help appreciate drivers.
Do you know who is sponsoring 1 2
of the sponsors are?
Linux and Sam sara
are listed as sponsors.
Are you kidding me
These 2 companies have single handedly done so
much damage to trucking,
(01:47):
and then they have the un mitigated gall.
To go sponsor
national truck driver appreciation week when they are
both
horrible for trucking
and in my opinion should both close down
and hang their heads and shame and move
to an uninhabited
Pacific island and live out their lives there,
(02:09):
so we never have to hear from them
again.
What about that?
Having Linux and Sam sa,
sponsor that
is like having a wolf sponsored Pe. I
mean, it just doesn't happen.
They have done so much damage to trucking.
(02:29):
So many people have left the industry and
worse than that.
So many drivers have been run out of
the industry wrongly.
Because of their
products.
And I know of many of them. They've
written to me, many drivers they'll send me
their videos because apparently, you can go online
and look at your videos which I never
(02:51):
recommend people do.
Okay. Analytics,
Sam, any camera driver, if it's driver facing
camera in your cab,
I personally,
would recommend you don't have anything to do
with it. I wouldn't look at their videos,
wouldn't comment on them or do anything to
them.
But regardless of that,
(03:11):
These 2 places
have done so much,
then they go on there and they are
sponsoring national truck of appreciation week.
I guess the only reason they appreciate drivers
is because all the money they make, getting
drivers fired wrongly
or getting drivers you know, in some kind
of trouble or in other ways.
Because there's no really no good that they've
(03:32):
done from the industry,
And sure. And sure, people are gonna say,
well, mark,
some companies just use it for forward facing
camera. Okay. You don't have to have linux.
Or any of these other cameras to have
a forward facing camera.
You can have a 20 dollar dash camera
in the truck, do the same job
Okay.
(03:53):
And for any of you,
executives or whatever that listen to this,
if you are there thinking, oh, well, mark.
A note what he's talking about. These are
great.
Unless you have a dashcam in your car,
you are a liar. As Okay. Simple as
that, if you thought for 1 minute
that these cameras
(04:14):
mark the camera just or for safety, and
it makes you safer, than you'd have 1
in your car, and why don't you record
your wife driving around and go criticize her
at the end of the day and see
how that goes for you.
Okay.
See how that goes for. That's where the
split is
People like me and drivers that have been
driving a long time.
(04:36):
We know that we've been driving all these
years without the assistance of cameras and all
these other aids that they have in trucks
like all these lane keeping and all these
radars and all that. And so we don't
have any problem with it. And then younger
people that come in,
you know, they want that stuff.
And that's
(04:56):
part of the problem?
They are asking for it? Hey. Why isn't
what about this? Do they have this?
What about this kind of technology? No. How
about this? Drive the dang truck?
And as an aside,
please.
I'm encouraging you to wear your seatbelt belt.
There was just an accident I was just
(05:17):
reading about a truck. Another truck. This happens
more often than you would think.
Has an accident and is dangling off and
overpass, and there's a picture of it. Now
the truck is still up there, but when
it went over the overpass the driver was
ejected out of the truck.
No
seat belt.
So I am gonna encourage you to wear
(05:38):
a Seat belt, and this is just like
the
the T thing. Do I think it should
be the law? No.
Do I think you should wear it? Yes.
But I give you the freedom to not
wear it because remember, if you don't have
a choice, you don't have freedom.
So without choice, there's no freedom. So, yes,
you get a choice, but then,
You have to accept the consequences that you
(05:58):
might die in an accident that you could
otherwise live through. Because the truck really didn't
have them much damage on it, it was
just hanging in a weird way, and the
driver was ejected right out, and they commented
no seat belt.
So sorry about that to that driver.
But you gotta have freedom.
So back to this lyrics and Temps,
(06:19):
I'm sorry, but
that they sponsor this is just hilarious.
You know, maybe what they could do, they
should say, you know, for national truck driver
appreciation, week, we're gonna get 1 driver their
job back we wrongly accused of something because
we have no idea what we're talking about?
That'd be something they could. We're gonna appreciate
this driver Hank.
(06:39):
Joe Sc, we're gonna get you your job
back because our lousy camera, which only showed
a few seconds to the company.
Mis recorded you, and then we at our
our people that watch this, none of whom
are drivers presumably or many of whom are
not drivers.
Watched it. And that's how you get fired.
Sorry.
So we'll try to get your job back.
It's just the height of Irony? To have
(07:00):
these 2 on there, but what is the
Ata? They don't care. If you want like
they care about anything. So of course, they're
gonna have them sponsored.
It's ridiculous,
and I don't like it. Thanks for listening
and we'll be back soon with another. Trucking
interest.
Hello. Hello and welcome to trucking answers.
It's Mark trucking interest host.
Welcome.
Or welcome back.
So
truck driver
appreciation week is coming up the second week
of September.
So get ready for all the love to
be heap upon you depending on
(00:20):
where you go and where you work.
Now, I was peru
the Ata American Trucking
Association site
because they have
their driver
appreciation week, store open.
That's right. You can go on their store
and by merch. And I actually don't know
if you can buy it as an individual
(00:41):
or not. So not sure about that.
But there's a logo, national truck appreciation week
20 24.
They have shirts and hats and mugs that
kind of thing that you can buy. I
assume you're getting them as a company and
you'd give them out to your drivers or
you know, whatever you're doing staff in the
office. No idea.
(01:04):
But you can do that. And so that's
all great. Because we know we love the
American Trucking Association, nobody does more for trucking.
Right?
So when you look at the bot, I
can't even believe I barely saying this stuff.
When you go to the bottom of the
page, there are sponsors for national truck driver
appreciation week, and there's like gold level and
civil, there's different levels of sponsorship.
(01:26):
To, you know, help appreciate drivers.
Do you know who is sponsoring 1 2
of the sponsors are?
Linux and Sam sara
are listed as sponsors.
Are you kidding me
These 2 companies have single handedly done so
much damage to trucking,
(01:47):
and then they have the un mitigated gall.
To go sponsor
national truck driver appreciation week when they are
both
horrible for trucking
and in my opinion should both close down
and hang their heads and shame and move
to an uninhabited
Pacific island and live out their lives there,
(02:09):
so we never have to hear from them
again.
What about that?
Having Linux and Sam sa,
sponsor that
is like having a wolf sponsored Pe. I
mean, it just doesn't happen.
They have done so much damage to trucking.
(02:29):
So many people have left the industry and
worse than that.
So many drivers have been run out of
the industry wrongly.
Because of their
products.
And I know of many of them. They've
written to me, many drivers they'll send me
their videos because apparently, you can go online
and look at your videos which I never
(02:51):
recommend people do.
Okay. Analytics,
Sam, any camera driver, if it's driver facing
camera in your cab,
I personally,
would recommend you don't have anything to do
with it. I wouldn't look at their videos,
wouldn't comment on them or do anything to
them.
But regardless of that,
(03:11):
These 2 places
have done so much,
then they go on there and they are
sponsoring national truck of appreciation week.
I guess the only reason they appreciate drivers
is because all the money they make, getting
drivers fired wrongly
or getting drivers you know, in some kind
of trouble or in other ways.
Because there's no really no good that they've
(03:32):
done from the industry,
And sure. And sure, people are gonna say,
well, mark,
some companies just use it for forward facing
camera. Okay. You don't have to have linux.
Or any of these other cameras to have
a forward facing camera.
You can have a 20 dollar dash camera
in the truck, do the same job
Okay.
(03:53):
And for any of you,
executives or whatever that listen to this,
if you are there thinking, oh, well, mark.
A note what he's talking about. These are
great.
Unless you have a dashcam in your car,
you are a liar. As Okay. Simple as
that, if you thought for 1 minute
that these cameras
(04:14):
mark the camera just or for safety, and
it makes you safer, than you'd have 1
in your car, and why don't you record
your wife driving around and go criticize her
at the end of the day and see
how that goes for you.
Okay.
See how that goes for. That's where the
split is
People like me and drivers that have been
driving a long time.
(04:36):
We know that we've been driving all these
years without the assistance of cameras and all
these other aids that they have in trucks
like all these lane keeping and all these
radars and all that. And so we don't
have any problem with it. And then younger
people that come in,
you know, they want that stuff.
And that's
(04:56):
part of the problem?
They are asking for it? Hey. Why isn't
what about this? Do they have this?
What about this kind of technology? No. How
about this? Drive the dang truck?
And as an aside,
please.
I'm encouraging you to wear your seatbelt belt.
There was just an accident I was just
(05:17):
reading about a truck. Another truck. This happens
more often than you would think.
Has an accident and is dangling off and
overpass, and there's a picture of it. Now
the truck is still up there, but when
it went over the overpass the driver was
ejected out of the truck.
No
seat belt.
So I am gonna encourage you to wear
(05:38):
a Seat belt, and this is just like
the
the T thing. Do I think it should
be the law? No.
Do I think you should wear it? Yes.
But I give you the freedom to not
wear it because remember, if you don't have
a choice, you don't have freedom.
So without choice, there's no freedom. So, yes,
you get a choice, but then,
You have to accept the consequences that you
(05:58):
might die in an accident that you could
otherwise live through. Because the truck really didn't
have them much damage on it, it was
just hanging in a weird way, and the
driver was ejected right out, and they commented
no seat belt.
So sorry about that to that driver.
But you gotta have freedom.
So back to this lyrics and Temps,
(06:19):
I'm sorry, but
that they sponsor this is just hilarious.
You know, maybe what they could do, they
should say, you know, for national truck driver
appreciation, week, we're gonna get 1 driver their
job back we wrongly accused of something because
we have no idea what we're talking about?
That'd be something they could. We're gonna appreciate
this driver Hank.
(06:39):
Joe Sc, we're gonna get you your job
back because our lousy camera, which only showed
a few seconds to the company.
Mis recorded you, and then we at our
our people that watch this, none of whom
are drivers presumably or many of whom are
not drivers.
Watched it. And that's how you get fired.
Sorry.
So we'll try to get your job back.
It's just the height of Irony? To have
(07:00):
these 2 on there, but what is the
Ata? They don't care. If you want like
they care about anything. So of course, they're
gonna have them sponsored.
It's ridiculous,
and I don't like it. Thanks for listening
and we'll be back soon with another. Trucking
interest.
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