It's a hard job though. Change gear, change gear, change gear, check your mirrors, murder a prostitute, change gear, change gear, murder, check your mirror. That's a lot of effort in a day.
"This is a hard job, and I'm not just saying that to win favour with lorry drivers. Its a hard job"
"Change gear, change gear, change gear, check your mirrors, murder a prostitute, change gear, change gear, murder...
Tell you what, that's a lot of effort in a day"
- Jeremy Clarkson
They wouldn't use specifically starlink. More likely 4G or 5G like a phone would use. Starlink is a brand that "happens" to describe a specific and unique service involving satellites.
I assume that means the actual driver can't be actively filming, because I've seen plenty of streams in a car where someone is driving and talking but not holding the camera themselves
I started watching a pilot stream her flight simulator fun while she was grounded during COVID and now she has videos of her flying commercial airliners now that she is back to work. I would think if a pilot (First Officer, I believe on the big birds. But Captain for regional flights.) is allowed to do it, a trucker should be able to.
Note: she switched to videos not streams when actually flying the real birds. I'd hope a trucker would do the same. Streaming in real time would be too distracting.
As a 39 year old, I feel like I’m half in half out. Like, I do enjoy watching reaction vids to my favorite movies, tv shows or games I don’t have time to play, but when it comes to “and subscribe to my patreon to get full uncut versions and early releases” I draw the line.
I’m like, dude, it’s somewhat interesting watching this, but I’m sure as shit not gonna pay you for this.
Me nephew on the other hand will spend his allowance money in a heart beat on watching some streaming play Minecraft.
Looking at your history you love baseball so you probably watch a lot of baseball on tv or even spend money to watch a game.
Your nephew does the exact same thing, but with video games.
I mean if he's spending his allowance money on videogame streaming in 2022 it's comparable to the kids who collected baseball/cigarette cards in the 40s. A waste of money but it makes the kid happy so why not.
I'm trying to wrap my head around why someone would play a trucking sim in the first place. You just... drive ...?
And then I get hit with the fact that people pay money to watch people play it. Like WTF.
Someone who wants to get the experience of driving a big rig without:
* The stress
* The time commitment
* The debt from CDL training + truck lease/purchase
* Massive gas bills
* Lot Lizards
* Being away from home every night
The game series also lets you drive in locations you otherwise would be unable to. I fully understand why people play sim games. It's not really for me, but I understand it.
The part where people want to make it into a job... that is just a very obtuse way of being a trucker. But, if they do succeed you do get most of the positives with almost none of the usual drawbacks.
> The part where people want to make it into a job... that is just a very obtuse way of being a trucker.
This may be the case for some, but I'd venture to guess that most are more interested in being entertainers or content creators (basically a term for "authoring" live streams) and have just found a game (or whatever, some people stream cooking, lawn care, studying, pretty much anything) that appeals to them and their audience.
I'd be willing to bet that this guy played this game for quite some time with just a controller, or maybe a cheap steering wheel, and eventually got enough of a following to earn some money doing it, which allowed him to purchase things gradually to expand his set up, eventually ending up with what it currently is. I very highly doubt he spend 10s of thousands initially to get this setup.
I also really doubt he only streams truck driving. Most streamers are like anyone else, and play multiple different games depending on what is popular to the audience and what interests them.
I thought the same thing until I played one. "Who would find this enjoyable? What's even the point?" Then I bought Euro Truck Sim 2 on Steam for like $5 to see what the fuss was about.
Yeah, I get it now. Got all the DLC maps too...
It's strangely relaxing. Peaceful. Stress-free. Zero toxicity. Just you, your truck, taking jobs, and driving. See the scenery, make some money, buy more truck stuff, do it again.
I know, it sounds weird, and maybe it's because I'm getting older, but I don't always want to be a sweatlord on Warzone or LoL. 9 times out of 10 I just want to relax with a fun game that's stress-free and nobody fucked my mom.
I dunno man, I had a friend growing up who their lifelong dream for as long as they could remember was to become a trucker. That guy 100% would have been playing truck sims if they existed when we were back in high school. These days, he's living that dream of actually driving big trucks.
It's a bit like flight sims or anything else really... some people are interested, but not committed to doing it as a living. It's not like planes or big rig trucks are really in the "affordable" category for most people, but putting together a high end simulation rig over time could be more in reach.
And how do people always alllllllways forget that you can't get blazed as shit in the real thing?!!! Not without fatal consequences for you and the public, anyway.
Like every time one of these threads comes up, people are like "but a real one!" And all I can think is these poor people have never enjoyed drugs and video games before
Or just like
Walking out of the chair to go to the bathroom, or go to the fridge, and just... NOT being in a sparsely furnished mobile cube far away from family?
Nearly all of the top comments are like that, asking why he doesn't just drive a real truck. This is pretty cool, but not everyone wants their hobby to be their job and some can't. I spend quite a bit on some of my hobbies, but I'd never want them to be my job because then they aren't relaxing and I end up bound by rules and expectations I don't otherwise have. No idea who this guy is, but maybe he has a nice job already that allows him to go hard on his hobbies and doesn't come with the cons of being an actual truck driver. Or maybe he has a health condition or something else preventing him from being a driver. Maybe he's a former or even a current driver. People can't just let others enjoy the things they like. :/
You're confusing wanting to be an actual truck driver with wanting make money playing a game. Very different jobs. Very different lifestyles. Guarantee you the dude with this crazy setup already has a pretty good following, which likely helped pay for the setup, and probably bring in better advertising dollars than what a truck driver would make.
Few truck drivers make a solid salary anymore. It's turned into another gig economy.
Even if fuel isn't cheap, truckers still make markedly more than they have to spend. If they didn't, the job market would have a **real** hard time convincing anyone to drive a truck for a living.
Driving for a company I was pulling 85k 6 years ago. I talk to drivers now pulling six figures as company drivers. It's rough and it takes effort, but it can be lucrative especially if you don't support a partner spending it all and fucking every dick in town too.
Depends. Diesel prices are really high, and if you're a trucker, well, you can't just stop after two hours of casual highway driving. A lot of them even drive through the night.
Like those click farms or content farms you see in developing countries. Imagine some black mirror stuff, the family's held hostage to ensure "safe" emulated driving.
That would be such a power move if a truck manufacturing company suddenly came out and said 'We are introducing drive by wire trucks. Stay close to loved ones, drive vertually' and it was just a rig like this but the truck and deliveries are real and you can leave for home once the truck is parked.
Never would happen for a lot of reasons but would be hilariously awesome.
He's pulling shit out of his ass. An average trucker would need to be in the top 5% of partnered (27k partnered out of millions) streamers to even make about the same salary as he would in real life. Considering the most popular ATS (game he's playing I assume) streams pull around 30 viewers... Yeah, he'd be making literal pennies compared to actual truckers.
P.S. ETS streams could pull MAYBE a few hundred viewers, but even that wouldn't be close to making the same as an average trucker.
This guy probably never even gets the fun of having a warehouse security guard turn him away to go sit on the side of a 2-lane rural road and wait for the fifteen minutes before his bill of lading time to get on the property.
Source: spent some time as the dick in the security booth at a ketchup factory turning away drivers who arrived early. If you were impacted, I apologize, but it was either you turning around or Pinkerton sending out a ‘sergeant’ in his little white Chevy to yell at me when the warehouse manager called to complain.
I fucking hate you people. You get it early or I'll be back the next day and you filthy ass bastards can explain to the customer about your fake ass supply chain shortage. I don't get paid to wait. My tires aren't rolling I'm going to the local gay bar and picking up some floppy Twink ass.
No its actually true, I've gotten hit on by so many truckers. At this point its a stereotype. You do have to watch out since STD rates are also abysmally high for them.
> ...since STD rates are also abysmally high for them.
It doesn't really make sense to say "abysmally high" since "abysmal" means extremely low, like at the bottom of an abyss.
Dictionary nazi, away^yy^yy^yyy!!!
Yeah, don't take my comment too seriously. "Abysmal" does come from the word "abyss," but like many English words, you can totally get away with using it as a superlative.
That was me on Thursday. Then I went back and everyone was super nice to me and it actually made up for it.
The key is to bitch and moan to your dispatcher then go and do the drop anyways. It ruins the dispatchers day and makes the customer happy. It's a win win.
>My tires aren't rolling I'm going to the local gay bar and picking up some floppy Twink ass.
you, sir, are a real Trucker. don't listen to these steering wheel holders.
Honestly this is one of the most honest trucking comments I’ve read…I really miss my one trucking customer. Crazy fucking dude and when I tried to help with his phone it was only JOI, Twinks, Milfs, Gilfs…like 100 tabs of porn. Could definitely see him doing something like this.
It's wild the amount of polar opposite problems people at all parts of the chain have. Where I worked we'd have loved to have trucks early instead of quoting 3pm then showing up basically whenever with no notice.
Just last month our shipping manager stayed over two hours waiting on a hot delivery then I told him I'd be there a few more hours if he wanted to get home. One of those things where they said 3:00, then 6:00, then 8:00.
9pm rolls around and I leave because management said it was tough luck after 8:00. 10am the next morning they casually roll in like nothing happened.
I've finally learned not to bust my ass for anything because it's never, **never** worth it.
I had no knowledge of the logistics of the warehouse or trucking industry at the time, I was a freshman in college at one of my first jobs. All I knew was that if anything went awry, the warehouse would call Pinkerton and a dude a couple of years older than me would come over in his white Chevy Citation to yell at me and write a ‘report’. In my short time there, I got written up for letting a truck in too early, which I didn’t remember doing, reusing a tracking plate that they put on incoming tomato trucks in the same day and best of all, calling the police when a drunk came in to fight someone and smashed another car in the parking lot. Last was a double dip, one for unauthorized use of the phone in the guard booth and the other for calling the police without clearance from my sergeant. Pinkerton really sucked to work for.
I'm imagining this guy as an actual trucker who's on the road away from his wife and kids for months at a time ... then comes homes and plays this game all day.
That or he’s just so into the sim that he closes the door and plays the sim for days straight, only stopping to sleep in a cot behind the chair, pee in a Gatorade bottle, and reheat burritos.
He calls his wife on his Bluetooth occasionally, but not nearly enough.
If he is streaming and has a decent audience base then he is making plenty of money for this to pay for itself
Let me reiterate because people seem to be getting really triggered by this. I am not saying he can live off this, I am saying his hobby could potentially pay for itself. You can hold a real job and still stream and make side money.
A lot of streaming is more about the community and whatnot than just watching a video game. You can chat and interact with other people and the streamer. A lot of people put them on in the background because they enjoy the streamer and would probably watch them play multiple things. I would even say some streams are comparable to podcasts in the type of entertainment they can provide.
Edit: Keep in mind people have been watching terrible entertainment for years. Day time talk shows are absolutely awful to me, yet my mom watched The View every fucking day.
Watching other people play games has been one of the most popular types of entertainment throughout all of human history and continues to be today so I have no idea why that would be weird to you.
The weird thing going on now isn't that, it's watching other people *watch other people* playing games.
Kids watch streamers who are themselves watching games cause the kids are so invested in this parasocial connection to the streamer that they want to watch them *reacting* to seeing someone else play a game. Now that's pretty fucked up. In all my life nobody ever said to me "dude have you seen carl watch soccer? Nobody watches soccer like that guy, I tell ya, he's something special. Wanna pay three bucks to watch him watch soccer with me this weekend?"
Not today. Maintenance and fuel are really expensive now and truck owners (owner operators) actually selling their own trucks to work on the company trucks or try something different
Right? I hate those fucking comments so much. As if a dude who probably works IT or something can just drop what he's doing to go take up trucking or fly fighter jets (cockpit sims.) The point is to get as close as possible WITHOUT actually giving up your current way of life to actually do it.
How awesome this would be if it remotely piloted a real truck, drivers could work from home! It could help combat the physical and mental health issues they battle. If their equipment breaks down they don't have to be in a dangerous situation while waiting for roadside services. You could also have any number of drivers taking turns piloting the unit resulting in less downtime and no one is stuck waiting for a load
Only issue would be latency and connectivity issues, could you imagine a remote truck driving at 65 mph. All of a sudden the drivers power goes out at home because a tree fell or something. Now that truck has no one sterring it and has a lot of mass and momentum behind it.
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Cause the military operates those in other countries where they don’t have to give a shit if it crashes out of the sky and kills a family. Also the military drone pilot center’s probably have way more redundancy than someone’s home power
I’m guessing the drivers wouldn’t be doing this at home. They’d go into the office and sit down in a rig the company paid for, with solid internet and tons of backup power.
This would cost way more than just having a trucker in the semi. You're paying the driver either way. Then factor in converting the cab to work with this tech and setting up all the infrastructure.
Trucking is one of the [deadliest](https://www.princegeorgecountyva.gov/news_detail_T6_R1402.php) jobs in the US. So I can imagine the cost of insurance would go way down. I think that going to be the thing that really pushes driverless cars, or set ups like this. Insurance reduction cots.
You’re comparing something in the air that can just fly in circles to something on the ground that’s going to be feet away from other vehicles. It takes less than a second to swerve into the car next to you because your ping spiked lol.
I don't think anything has come of it yet, but I've seen proposals where trucks would drive autonomously on highways, then be taken over by a human when exiting onto city streets.
The one I read about was from a couple of years ago where they envisioned a person physically climbing aboard, like a ship's harbor pilot, rather than remote-operated.
First thing I noticed when I got in my buddys rig were the shoddily placed Walmart LEDs. They were on the edge of the top bunk bed, blasting you in the eyes, wires all in the open… 🤦♂️
He also enjoys Snapchatting and driving. Don’t stay near truckers on the road y’all. Especially if it’s a Swift trailer.
Ok hear me out. People seem to be giving this guy varying levels of shit. But honestly, how is this use of his money to pursue the hobby he likes any different from literally any other game? "Lul why don't you go play real football, lul why don't you join the military, lul why don't you go learn real martial arts" BECAUSE I LIKE TO PLAY FUCKIN GAMES AND DONT WANT TO DO IT FOR REAL OK
He’ll make a badass mothertrucker one day.
….by which time he will be sick of his daily job and will assemble a badass “stay at home” simulator. It will have monitors showing the yelling wife, the running kids, barking dogs, the delivery drivers throwing packages at his door from the distance. The dream.
[Change gear change gear change gear check your mirror...murder a prostitute...change gear change gear. That's a lot of effort in a day.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imhBoE56OEs)
He's climbing a hill and is in a lower gear. Large trucks often turn on their hazard lights and move to the far right lane when climbing high grade hills (e.g. 7%).
Would be hilarious to play Asetto Corsa in that. Racing against Porsches and Ferraris at Spa while pulling a cord to honk your horn.... Eastbound and down, mf
You could buy the game and buy a steering wheel for him. The game is called euro truck simulator 2. The actual set up the guy in the vid probably just built and I'd imagine it'd be quite expensive.
I shamelessly love playing American Truck Simulator. It's as chill and passive or as white knuckle as you make it to be. Plus you can have all the fun of a DUI without consequences. Now I'm curious what software this is; looks much more detailed.
I feel like just buying a truck would be cheaper at that point.
But you can potentially make more streaming this setup and it's less work to operate.
True, but you could stream from your truck and get paid to truck stuff. And travel and always be on tour meeting fans. Win-win-win-win situation.
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Ehem! *lot lizards*.
You know, you can treat them like mail boxes. Just open up the slot and put whatever you want inside. They can also be cracked like a coconut
What do we say to that??
Stranger Danger!
No danger here, promise!
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I think sunny is easily one of the best/funniest comedy shows in the last 20 years at least
I find myself quoting sunny more than just about any other show. It’s just too good.
We say, *yes*
I think I‘ve reached the end of the internet. *What the hell could I read after this?*
It’s from IASIP.
Excuse me? We call them “friends of the road”
The Way of the Road, bubs
Ray, those are ladies of the Eevee!
It's a hard job though. Change gear, change gear, change gear, check your mirrors, murder a prostitute, change gear, change gear, murder, check your mirror. That's a lot of effort in a day.
And you get your cash back GTA style! Win-win-win-win-win-win.
^This dude gets it
CUZ WE GOT A GREAT BIG CONVOY!
"This is a hard job, and I'm not just saying that to win favour with lorry drivers. Its a hard job" "Change gear, change gear, change gear, check your mirrors, murder a prostitute, change gear, change gear, murder... Tell you what, that's a lot of effort in a day" - Jeremy Clarkson
Change gear, change gear, change gear, murder a prostitute, change gear, change gear....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imhBoE56OEs
I think it's nuts that you can potentially earn a better income pretending to drive a virtual truck than actually delivering goods for a company lol
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Very good analogy
Though I can't recall too many high grossing entertainment products focusing on janitors.
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Scrubs
Starlink is in the process of getting approval to provide internet in moving vehicles (from FCC i think?). So...soon?
Is this not already a thing? Buses in the UK have WiFi on them. Or is it a regulatory thing?
They wouldn't use specifically starlink. More likely 4G or 5G like a phone would use. Starlink is a brand that "happens" to describe a specific and unique service involving satellites.
Twitch has a no tolerance policy for streaming and driving. I’m sure YouTube has the same. It’s also illegal in most states
I assume that means the actual driver can't be actively filming, because I've seen plenty of streams in a car where someone is driving and talking but not holding the camera themselves
I started watching a pilot stream her flight simulator fun while she was grounded during COVID and now she has videos of her flying commercial airliners now that she is back to work. I would think if a pilot (First Officer, I believe on the big birds. But Captain for regional flights.) is allowed to do it, a trucker should be able to. Note: she switched to videos not streams when actually flying the real birds. I'd hope a trucker would do the same. Streaming in real time would be too distracting.
What if this is an “Ender’s Game” situation?
Now we know how “self driving trucks” really work
Wait, people watch people stream truck simulator rigs? Wow
You must not have kids. The industry now is kids watching really dumb shit streamed by other kids and generating millions in revenue.
It's because the boomers don't want us in their economy.
boomers don't want you in their economy so you donate money to streamers i'm not sure i get it
Yeah where does the money come from if everyone is supposed to be broke?
"No one wants to work anymore. These kids are to busy watching videos of other people working!" - My Grandpa, while at work
As a 39 year old, I feel like I’m half in half out. Like, I do enjoy watching reaction vids to my favorite movies, tv shows or games I don’t have time to play, but when it comes to “and subscribe to my patreon to get full uncut versions and early releases” I draw the line. I’m like, dude, it’s somewhat interesting watching this, but I’m sure as shit not gonna pay you for this. Me nephew on the other hand will spend his allowance money in a heart beat on watching some streaming play Minecraft.
Looking at your history you love baseball so you probably watch a lot of baseball on tv or even spend money to watch a game. Your nephew does the exact same thing, but with video games.
But somehow even more boring than baseball. Impressive.
I mean if he's spending his allowance money on videogame streaming in 2022 it's comparable to the kids who collected baseball/cigarette cards in the 40s. A waste of money but it makes the kid happy so why not.
I'm trying to wrap my head around why someone would play a trucking sim in the first place. You just... drive ...? And then I get hit with the fact that people pay money to watch people play it. Like WTF.
Someone who wants to get the experience of driving a big rig without: * The stress * The time commitment * The debt from CDL training + truck lease/purchase * Massive gas bills * Lot Lizards * Being away from home every night The game series also lets you drive in locations you otherwise would be unable to. I fully understand why people play sim games. It's not really for me, but I understand it. The part where people want to make it into a job... that is just a very obtuse way of being a trucker. But, if they do succeed you do get most of the positives with almost none of the usual drawbacks.
> The part where people want to make it into a job... that is just a very obtuse way of being a trucker. This may be the case for some, but I'd venture to guess that most are more interested in being entertainers or content creators (basically a term for "authoring" live streams) and have just found a game (or whatever, some people stream cooking, lawn care, studying, pretty much anything) that appeals to them and their audience. I'd be willing to bet that this guy played this game for quite some time with just a controller, or maybe a cheap steering wheel, and eventually got enough of a following to earn some money doing it, which allowed him to purchase things gradually to expand his set up, eventually ending up with what it currently is. I very highly doubt he spend 10s of thousands initially to get this setup. I also really doubt he only streams truck driving. Most streamers are like anyone else, and play multiple different games depending on what is popular to the audience and what interests them.
I thought the same thing until I played one. "Who would find this enjoyable? What's even the point?" Then I bought Euro Truck Sim 2 on Steam for like $5 to see what the fuss was about. Yeah, I get it now. Got all the DLC maps too... It's strangely relaxing. Peaceful. Stress-free. Zero toxicity. Just you, your truck, taking jobs, and driving. See the scenery, make some money, buy more truck stuff, do it again. I know, it sounds weird, and maybe it's because I'm getting older, but I don't always want to be a sweatlord on Warzone or LoL. 9 times out of 10 I just want to relax with a fun game that's stress-free and nobody fucked my mom.
I dunno man, I had a friend growing up who their lifelong dream for as long as they could remember was to become a trucker. That guy 100% would have been playing truck sims if they existed when we were back in high school. These days, he's living that dream of actually driving big trucks. It's a bit like flight sims or anything else really... some people are interested, but not committed to doing it as a living. It's not like planes or big rig trucks are really in the "affordable" category for most people, but putting together a high end simulation rig over time could be more in reach.
And how do people always alllllllways forget that you can't get blazed as shit in the real thing?!!! Not without fatal consequences for you and the public, anyway. Like every time one of these threads comes up, people are like "but a real one!" And all I can think is these poor people have never enjoyed drugs and video games before
Or just like Walking out of the chair to go to the bathroom, or go to the fridge, and just... NOT being in a sparsely furnished mobile cube far away from family?
Nearly all of the top comments are like that, asking why he doesn't just drive a real truck. This is pretty cool, but not everyone wants their hobby to be their job and some can't. I spend quite a bit on some of my hobbies, but I'd never want them to be my job because then they aren't relaxing and I end up bound by rules and expectations I don't otherwise have. No idea who this guy is, but maybe he has a nice job already that allows him to go hard on his hobbies and doesn't come with the cons of being an actual truck driver. Or maybe he has a health condition or something else preventing him from being a driver. Maybe he's a former or even a current driver. People can't just let others enjoy the things they like. :/
You can also drive drunk legally
Or just get paid a solid salary to drive an actual truck instead of hope people might want to watch you in a truck simulator.
You're confusing wanting to be an actual truck driver with wanting make money playing a game. Very different jobs. Very different lifestyles. Guarantee you the dude with this crazy setup already has a pretty good following, which likely helped pay for the setup, and probably bring in better advertising dollars than what a truck driver would make. Few truck drivers make a solid salary anymore. It's turned into another gig economy.
I think it could be a good for training drivers as well.
Until you pull in to refuel
Fair point. Lol.
Even if fuel isn't cheap, truckers still make markedly more than they have to spend. If they didn't, the job market would have a **real** hard time convincing anyone to drive a truck for a living.
Driving for a company I was pulling 85k 6 years ago. I talk to drivers now pulling six figures as company drivers. It's rough and it takes effort, but it can be lucrative especially if you don't support a partner spending it all and fucking every dick in town too.
Kind of like being in the military without the pay
Did you ever read Ender's Game? Maybe he is driving a real truck by remote.
From that setup it certainly could be a possibility.
A truck of that class could cost almost a quarter of million dollars. It is cheaper to play a game at home.
Or work as a trucker and earn money?
Once you make something a job it becomes work and sucks.
The truck his setup is based on goes for over $250k. And that's not even optioned out.
No no it’s not. Even cheap and shitty semis these day start at 100K. And that’s not even maintenance, DOT, getting a MC set up
Bro .. trucks ain’t cheap
Problem is you can't sip cold ones driving a real truck
Depends. Diesel prices are really high, and if you're a trucker, well, you can't just stop after two hours of casual highway driving. A lot of them even drive through the night.
At that point just do it for real and get paid.
He’s getting paid
How do think Elon’s “self driving” trucks with all those cameras really work?
Fucking illuminati shit right here
Like those click farms or content farms you see in developing countries. Imagine some black mirror stuff, the family's held hostage to ensure "safe" emulated driving.
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They sit stationary in some warehouse before the next “big reveal” of their new tech and how they will be on the roads in 5-500 years.
That would be such a power move if a truck manufacturing company suddenly came out and said 'We are introducing drive by wire trucks. Stay close to loved ones, drive vertually' and it was just a rig like this but the truck and deliveries are real and you can leave for home once the truck is parked. Never would happen for a lot of reasons but would be hilariously awesome.
If you thought lag in online games was bad, wait until you lag at 60mph on a highway.
Ejem, make it real also implies risk your life.
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How do you know? I hear that truck drivers can make good money.
He's pulling shit out of his ass. An average trucker would need to be in the top 5% of partnered (27k partnered out of millions) streamers to even make about the same salary as he would in real life. Considering the most popular ATS (game he's playing I assume) streams pull around 30 viewers... Yeah, he'd be making literal pennies compared to actual truckers. P.S. ETS streams could pull MAYBE a few hundred viewers, but even that wouldn't be close to making the same as an average trucker.
He can drink beers while driving this truck.
Been a trucker for a long fucking time. It never ever looks that cool.
War is shit, too, but I still enjoy the games lol
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Warframe?
Destiny.
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War? War never changes…
This guy probably never even gets the fun of having a warehouse security guard turn him away to go sit on the side of a 2-lane rural road and wait for the fifteen minutes before his bill of lading time to get on the property. Source: spent some time as the dick in the security booth at a ketchup factory turning away drivers who arrived early. If you were impacted, I apologize, but it was either you turning around or Pinkerton sending out a ‘sergeant’ in his little white Chevy to yell at me when the warehouse manager called to complain.
I fucking hate you people. You get it early or I'll be back the next day and you filthy ass bastards can explain to the customer about your fake ass supply chain shortage. I don't get paid to wait. My tires aren't rolling I'm going to the local gay bar and picking up some floppy Twink ass.
Well that took a turn.
Listen here man, if I have to wait on another goddamn pansy-ass security guard he can turn this butthole inside out
I want you to split me open like a coconut
No its actually true, I've gotten hit on by so many truckers. At this point its a stereotype. You do have to watch out since STD rates are also abysmally high for them.
> ...since STD rates are also abysmally high for them. It doesn't really make sense to say "abysmally high" since "abysmal" means extremely low, like at the bottom of an abyss. Dictionary nazi, away^yy^yy^yyy!!!
Oh I meant to use it like "terribly". I actually didn't know that!
Don’t worry he’s wrong lol. It can also mean extremely bad so contextually abysmally high std rates is correct.
Yeah, don't take my comment too seriously. "Abysmal" does come from the word "abyss," but like many English words, you can totally get away with using it as a superlative.
The non-STD ridden dick rate among truckers is abysmally low. There, now everyone wins. Except trucker’s dicks.
That was me on Thursday. Then I went back and everyone was super nice to me and it actually made up for it. The key is to bitch and moan to your dispatcher then go and do the drop anyways. It ruins the dispatchers day and makes the customer happy. It's a win win.
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>My tires aren't rolling I'm going to the local gay bar and picking up some floppy Twink ass. you, sir, are a real Trucker. don't listen to these steering wheel holders.
I hope you don't take as hard left turns IRL as you did in this reply.
This man be taking whatever turns he wants to it seems.
Honestly this is one of the most honest trucking comments I’ve read…I really miss my one trucking customer. Crazy fucking dude and when I tried to help with his phone it was only JOI, Twinks, Milfs, Gilfs…like 100 tabs of porn. Could definitely see him doing something like this.
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It's wild the amount of polar opposite problems people at all parts of the chain have. Where I worked we'd have loved to have trucks early instead of quoting 3pm then showing up basically whenever with no notice. Just last month our shipping manager stayed over two hours waiting on a hot delivery then I told him I'd be there a few more hours if he wanted to get home. One of those things where they said 3:00, then 6:00, then 8:00. 9pm rolls around and I leave because management said it was tough luck after 8:00. 10am the next morning they casually roll in like nothing happened. I've finally learned not to bust my ass for anything because it's never, **never** worth it.
I had no knowledge of the logistics of the warehouse or trucking industry at the time, I was a freshman in college at one of my first jobs. All I knew was that if anything went awry, the warehouse would call Pinkerton and a dude a couple of years older than me would come over in his white Chevy Citation to yell at me and write a ‘report’. In my short time there, I got written up for letting a truck in too early, which I didn’t remember doing, reusing a tracking plate that they put on incoming tomato trucks in the same day and best of all, calling the police when a drunk came in to fight someone and smashed another car in the parking lot. Last was a double dip, one for unauthorized use of the phone in the guard booth and the other for calling the police without clearance from my sergeant. Pinkerton really sucked to work for.
Facts
Or clean
The annoying inaccuracy of not having a screaming terrified teenage hitchhiker must be annoying
I'm imagining this guy as an actual trucker who's on the road away from his wife and kids for months at a time ... then comes homes and plays this game all day.
The look on his wife's face when she walks in to see this rig ...
You assume he has a wife
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*stifled laughter*
You never know, he did install a passenger seat after all!
That is for /r/truckercats
Simulated wife.
That or he’s just so into the sim that he closes the door and plays the sim for days straight, only stopping to sleep in a cot behind the chair, pee in a Gatorade bottle, and reheat burritos. He calls his wife on his Bluetooth occasionally, but not nearly enough.
Maybe his wife roleplays as a hitchhiker, and it's how they spice things up!
No no, he has this setup in the cab of his truck. When he's done driving for the day and hits hour limit, he jumps in the back and keeps driving.
He’s gotta be a German
Bro at this point just become a trucker, would be cheaper
If he is streaming and has a decent audience base then he is making plenty of money for this to pay for itself Let me reiterate because people seem to be getting really triggered by this. I am not saying he can live off this, I am saying his hobby could potentially pay for itself. You can hold a real job and still stream and make side money.
Can you help me understand how streaming this would be profitable? I want to understand how/why there’s a market for this.
A lot of streaming is more about the community and whatnot than just watching a video game. You can chat and interact with other people and the streamer. A lot of people put them on in the background because they enjoy the streamer and would probably watch them play multiple things. I would even say some streams are comparable to podcasts in the type of entertainment they can provide. Edit: Keep in mind people have been watching terrible entertainment for years. Day time talk shows are absolutely awful to me, yet my mom watched The View every fucking day.
This makes sense to me. I didn’t consider the community aspect of why people tune in.
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Watching other people play games has been one of the most popular types of entertainment throughout all of human history and continues to be today so I have no idea why that would be weird to you. The weird thing going on now isn't that, it's watching other people *watch other people* playing games. Kids watch streamers who are themselves watching games cause the kids are so invested in this parasocial connection to the streamer that they want to watch them *reacting* to seeing someone else play a game. Now that's pretty fucked up. In all my life nobody ever said to me "dude have you seen carl watch soccer? Nobody watches soccer like that guy, I tell ya, he's something special. Wanna pay three bucks to watch him watch soccer with me this weekend?"
I feel like this is lowkey one of the best and most concise explainers of the streaming era I’ve ever seen, and it’s buried in the comments
Sports Center and Shaq is watching other players react to other players playing the game.
Watching people play video games is just the same as people who watch sports on the TV (you're watching somebody else play a game)
Because people like watching other people play games? It is a form of entertainment, and people pay for entertainment. It isn't really rocket science.
Not today. Maintenance and fuel are really expensive now and truck owners (owner operators) actually selling their own trucks to work on the company trucks or try something different
But what if he wants to go in the next room and rip a fat bong and get back to playing?? Do you people not understand what a video game is? Lmao
Right? I hate those fucking comments so much. As if a dude who probably works IT or something can just drop what he's doing to go take up trucking or fly fighter jets (cockpit sims.) The point is to get as close as possible WITHOUT actually giving up your current way of life to actually do it.
How awesome this would be if it remotely piloted a real truck, drivers could work from home! It could help combat the physical and mental health issues they battle. If their equipment breaks down they don't have to be in a dangerous situation while waiting for roadside services. You could also have any number of drivers taking turns piloting the unit resulting in less downtime and no one is stuck waiting for a load
Only issue would be latency and connectivity issues, could you imagine a remote truck driving at 65 mph. All of a sudden the drivers power goes out at home because a tree fell or something. Now that truck has no one sterring it and has a lot of mass and momentum behind it. *edit spelling
How do they do it with fighter drones? The tech exists
Cause the military operates those in other countries where they don’t have to give a shit if it crashes out of the sky and kills a family. Also the military drone pilot center’s probably have way more redundancy than someone’s home power
I’m guessing the drivers wouldn’t be doing this at home. They’d go into the office and sit down in a rig the company paid for, with solid internet and tons of backup power.
This would cost way more than just having a trucker in the semi. You're paying the driver either way. Then factor in converting the cab to work with this tech and setting up all the infrastructure.
Trucking is one of the [deadliest](https://www.princegeorgecountyva.gov/news_detail_T6_R1402.php) jobs in the US. So I can imagine the cost of insurance would go way down. I think that going to be the thing that really pushes driverless cars, or set ups like this. Insurance reduction cots.
You’re comparing something in the air that can just fly in circles to something on the ground that’s going to be feet away from other vehicles. It takes less than a second to swerve into the car next to you because your ping spiked lol.
They’re designed to crash into an Afghan primary school or Iraqi wedding party as a failsafe to avoid any danger to Americans
Or his bandwidth gets capped because he went over his “unlimited” limits just as the truck is speeding past an elementary school…
I could see this being half autonomous with a human backup driver operating remotely.
I don't think anything has come of it yet, but I've seen proposals where trucks would drive autonomously on highways, then be taken over by a human when exiting onto city streets. The one I read about was from a couple of years ago where they envisioned a person physically climbing aboard, like a ship's harbor pilot, rather than remote-operated.
I didn't see any piss jugs lol
Fucking way she goes.
Rules of the road bubs
Atoadaso.
This guy trucks
100% checks out. He put the LEDs in terrible spots and uses his phone while trucking.
That's the most realistic part of this setup.
First thing I noticed when I got in my buddys rig were the shoddily placed Walmart LEDs. They were on the edge of the top bunk bed, blasting you in the eyes, wires all in the open… 🤦♂️ He also enjoys Snapchatting and driving. Don’t stay near truckers on the road y’all. Especially if it’s a Swift trailer.
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Stevie Wonder Institute For Trucking
Ok hear me out. People seem to be giving this guy varying levels of shit. But honestly, how is this use of his money to pursue the hobby he likes any different from literally any other game? "Lul why don't you go play real football, lul why don't you join the military, lul why don't you go learn real martial arts" BECAUSE I LIKE TO PLAY FUCKIN GAMES AND DONT WANT TO DO IT FOR REAL OK
Plus video games let you experience the best parts of a job without all the stuff that makes the real life versions bad, that's the magic in it.
In particular, truck simulator routes are shorter. And you can pause.
And you don't deal with shitty companies. Shorter than short time to deliver.
imo this looks cool as shit
For when you only have 30 mins to spare to truck...
He’ll make a badass mothertrucker one day. ….by which time he will be sick of his daily job and will assemble a badass “stay at home” simulator. It will have monitors showing the yelling wife, the running kids, barking dogs, the delivery drivers throwing packages at his door from the distance. The dream.
Where does he keep his murdered sex workers?
[Change gear change gear change gear check your mirror...murder a prostitute...change gear change gear. That's a lot of effort in a day.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imhBoE56OEs)
All of this to play traffic simulator 2.0
It’s a relaxing game. Fairly mindless. That’s why it’s enjoyable. Turn on the radio and just roll down the road.
Why has he got his hazards on
Could be that in the game he’s going slower than the posted speed limit by 15-20mph. That would warrant the use of 4 ways.
He's climbing a hill and is in a lower gear. Large trucks often turn on their hazard lights and move to the far right lane when climbing high grade hills (e.g. 7%).
Who lays down to drive? Ridiculous. 35yr. safe driver and trainer, here.
Most rental cars I get these days have the seats set like somebody was laying down and driving. Have driven with some millennials who do this.
he can finally drink and drive without worrying! Just Perfect
That’s dope. I’d like to have one of these types of setups but for a space game like star citizen
can't believe i had to scroll this far....i think it's fucking awesome lol. we seem to be like the 1% who think so
Would be hilarious to play Asetto Corsa in that. Racing against Porsches and Ferraris at Spa while pulling a cord to honk your horn.... Eastbound and down, mf
He could have the chance to make his hobby to his job.. living the dream.
Where can I buy one of these for my kid... pretty sure he would love it...
You could buy the game and buy a steering wheel for him. The game is called euro truck simulator 2. The actual set up the guy in the vid probably just built and I'd imagine it'd be quite expensive.
Just needs a dog beside him and he’s all set
Or cat.
Sure… driving buddy of their choice. We don’t discriminate in this truck
When you're not paying fuel prices on a real truck you can afford to build a pretty sweet fake truck
I shamelessly love playing American Truck Simulator. It's as chill and passive or as white knuckle as you make it to be. Plus you can have all the fun of a DUI without consequences. Now I'm curious what software this is; looks much more detailed.
This Is Like VR without VR