Delivery Driver Jobs To Disappear by 2030
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TooTechie
Geek in Brown
As long as you have grass runways everywhere and have a pilots license...
TooTechie
Geek in Brown
It would iust take a little reusable rfid tag but the company probably doesnt want to spend the money. It would also eliminate digging through bulked out trucks looking for a package.
UnconTROLLed
perfection
I kind of like delivering misloads, because then my miles go way up and it's a good excuse for missing ORION miles badly.
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ManInBrown
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I agree. After a long day it can sometimes be annoying. For the most part I don't mind
clean hairy
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This is nothing new. Flying cars have been around for years.
First obstacle is to secure a Pilots License, then it has to have an annual FAA inspection(maybe not FAA, but an annual inspection for airworthiness) which costs I dunno, $800-$1,500 bux or so? (there is a Pilot somewhere on the board who can maybe tell us)
Hope you never get into even a minor fender bender on the road, it can't be flown again until it has been established to be airworthy.
Then, you have to buy Auto Insurance and insure it as an Aircraft as well.
This is my guess as to why previous versions never were big sellers or stuck around for long.
Mugarolla
Light 'em up!
Most planes can already takeoff, land and fly themselves. Pilots refer to the autopilot as "George."
But we still have a $250,000/yr pilot and a $200,000/yr copilot in the seats.
Some even have a third person, flight engineer.
The autopilot did not replace the pilot, and never will.
Mugarolla
Light 'em up!
Have you been to Worldport?
Humans still unload the trailers.
Humans still load the trailers.
Humans still drive the tugs.
Humans still move the cans.
Humans still load the cans.
Humans still unload the cans.
Humans still drive the yard birds.
Humans still load the planes.
Humans still unload the planes.
Humans still fly the planes.
Humans still drive the semi's
The sorting process is automated. That is about it. And that automated sorting will eventually be in all hubs.
Package cars cannot load and unload themselves.
Trailers cannot load and unload themselves.
Until robots are designed, and cheap enough, to replace the loader, unloader, preloader, etc, no jobs will be lost.
Robots will not be replacing us anytime in the not so near future.
The technology may be there, but it is cost prohibitive to even dream about it.
UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
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When I went to driving school they were talking about placing an inverted U-shaped barcode reader that would frame the opening behind each package car. The preloader would make sure that the barcode was facing out as he/she passed through the reader, which would be linked to that pkg car and would beep once if the package was for that car and would beep repeatedly if it was not.
UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
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Casino?
Jackburton
Gone Fish'n
Yes. We were playing craps there as they had some $5.00 tables that weren't crowded versus the Hardrock. It was the last time we ever went there. It reminded me of a line at the gas station where people were cashing their checks for lottery.
My Preloader would still put it on the wrong shelf with the label facing the wrong direction.
I could see a company using driverless vehicles in the inner city where a truck goes directly to an office building, backs into a dock and a mail room employee or employees distribute from that point. That's the beginning, but just think how many routes that eliminates almost overnight. From there the technology moves to malls where a package handler shows up and delivers a few bulk stops and then moves to carting deliveries through the mall.
clean hairy
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In icy weather, the Robot slips and falls, it will send a distress message to the Center?
"I've fallen and can't get up!"
The center will bring another robot out to complete the route of the damaged Robot?
"I've fallen and can't get up!"
The center will bring another robot out to complete the route of the damaged Robot?
clean hairy
Well-Known Member
And the Cubs are supposed to win the World Series this year if the movie was correct?
Bull
, UPS doesn't fix anything till its a cluster ed nightmare (and even then they try to keep pusshing it)
Robots and self driving cars are a long way off. The public will never accept "Today a computer program made an error and killed 45 people on the freeway; in other news UPS is making record profits" Just won't happen, to much backlash from too many sectors of society.
, UPS doesn't fix anything till its a cluster ed nightmare (and even then they try to keep pusshing it) Robots and self driving cars are a long way off. The public will never accept "Today a computer program made an error and killed 45 people on the freeway; in other news UPS is making record profits" Just won't happen, to much backlash from too many sectors of society.
I read that pilots actually make more like 18k to 25k a year because there are so many people who want to fly planes that it's easy to just stiff them on the salary.
Browndriver5
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This group excludes regional, national and international airline pilots. Commercial pilots earned a mean annual wage of $76,050 a year as of May 2011. The median reported salary was $70,000 per year, and the median-earning 50 percent of commercial pilots earned between $50,850 and $92,340 a year.
Mugarolla
Light 'em up!
Before signing the 8 year contract in 2006, UPS pilots averaged $175K per year.
They were around $190 per flying hour.
They got a 29% raise through the 2006-2014 contract.
The average salary is now around $225K. About $240 per flying hour.
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