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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 hour ago

Do you have to violate laws/regulations laws to meet schedules? Perhaps malicious compliance and adhere to all laws. As some have said, a union could help. If you don't have to violate laws/regulations to meet schedule, perhaps consider adhering to laws/regulations.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago

Give your truck a lobotomy.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Stick a chewing gum on the thing's speaker and start singing songs with very dirty and explicit lyrics, like gangsta rap and Bloodhound Gang.
All day long, everyday.
Persuade your colleagues to do the same.
They will have an endless string of report notifications they can't do shit about.
Fight smart.

Edit: still the best thing to do is unionize as many others already suggested, but fighting on more than one front is a good tactic, wars are won by exhausting your opponent.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (2 children)

"You forgot your wife's birthday again. Why can't you be more like your cousin Jeffery? You need to lose weight."

"Shut up!!"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago

Yeah, this guy got AI when the rest of us have to settle for parents or in-laws!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 12 hours ago

"I'm sorry, Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that."

[–] [email protected] 72 points 1 day ago (1 children)
  • Talk to your union
  • If you don't have a union, form one
  • If no one else cares, get a new job trucking
[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

As much as others may hate it, hexbear has actually pinned great sources to start your own union.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 hour ago

Hexbear has a lot of good things, it's just it's users are sometimes a pain.

[–] Sixtyforce 21 points 22 hours ago

No. If you want privacy, transportation is the wrong career. Trains are much the same.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Shit in the glove compartment to assert dominance.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 12 hours ago

Cup holders are just cups to hold your cups....piss in them.

[–] [email protected] 123 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (71 children)

Those Solera devices you've got are relatively common automotive IoT fleet trackers. They usually have gps antennas. They talk to the engine and transmission directly over canbus. Then they process that data and report what they see over a cell network. If they see nothing, they report that too with a heartbeat signal and various error codes.

Depending on the model, they sometimes have external cell antennas connected with a mini coaxial cable. Find it and unscrew it all the way, then re-screw it in by only 1 and a half rotations so it'll hang on but barely. Then clip the nearest ziptie so the cable wobbles free. It'll cause the nut on the coax to get a stress fracture in under a year. They will have to replace the gps/cell antenna module and those are like $300 a piece through Samsora. In the meantime you'll get iffy signal responses. Don't let them catch you cutting the zip tie on camera or you WILL lose your job.

Your truck will be in the maintenance shop relatively frequently at the request of whoever reads the reports for repair of that cell module. They won't find anything wrong with it, scratch their butts, then just screw it back down and replace the ziptie.

Unscrew it and clip it again.

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