Comments by "John Berry" (@user-ud6ui7zt3r) on "CNBC" channel.

When I worked for an employee-owned trucking company, every single load (that a driver would drive) would have a cargo shortage, and that “shortage” would be blamed on the driver as a theft. The truth was that the guys packing merchandise onto the pallets (prior to the trailer being loaded with pallets) were the ones stealing merchandise, but the trucking company chose to always blame the drivers.
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What I see, recently, is that drivers will park TWO trailers, as close as possible,rear-to-rear, followed by driving both tractors away. Two trailers parked that way would be very difficult to break into.
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@Bthdk-tc6yi The trucking company that I am referring to was a gigantic frozen food warehouse, and everything in the warehouse supplied the fast food industry. The guys packing the pallets were ORDER PICKERS, and they would misrepresent the number of items placed onto a pallet. Each pallet was fully loaded with whatever a single fast food restaurant had ordered, one week before. (The entire trailer would be packed with enough stuff for anywhere between 5 to 7 fast food restaurants.) You see, the front of a refrigerated trailer contains all the frozen items. A big, usually blue, padded mat separates the frozen stuff from the mid-section of the trailer. The mid-section of the trailer contains the food that only requires refrigeration. Another padded, blue mat is installed as a separator, behind the refrigerated mid-section. The last section, which is right next to the rear doors of the trailer, contains all the "dry" stuff, such as mops, mop buckets, etc.
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@xps1997 The drivers that I worked with knew who the culprits had to be. You see, I would ride along in the tractor, with the driver, as a Driver's Helper. Whenever we arrived at a fast food restaurant, I would help the driver unload that restaurant's requested supplies/food, as quickly as possible. Me and the driver worked side-by-side, from the moment the "run" began to the moment the "run" finished. I never saw a driver steal anything. (By deduction, that means that the inevitable shortages occurred BEFORE the "run" ever started!) So-... to answer your question... the real culprits were never formally discovered... unless you count me and the driver as respectable detectives.
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@clintpatty Let me add another log to the fire you are suggesting. The companies and corporations in my local area, based upon my own diligent and widespread investigations, constantly get away with hiring THEIR OWN RELATIVES. An international corporation, with a small local branch, which only has a headcount not greater than 80, will easily be composed of 5 families, comprising every "head" beneath the roof of the small local branch. In other words, in my local area, companies and corporations are regularly COMMANDEERED (staff-wise) by at least one family, if not a group of 5 families. So-... suppose that the employee-owned trucking company (that I have been talking about) is exclusively staffed with a group of 5 families. Every time a NEW DRIVER signs-on to drive for this particular trucking company, then, from the point-of-view of the family members, the New Driver is an OUTSIDER. Screwing-over an outsider, especially one who doesn't know the "trap" that he has "stepped" into, is looked upon as a perverse form of FUN by the family members. In other words, they treat a New Driver like a young cat treats the capture of its First Mouse. The young cat plays with the mouse, until, after a great deal of torture, the mouse eventually dies, but not until the young cat has had a lot of FUN with the mouse.
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@nunyabiznez666 Behind each sheet of sheet metal siding is a sheet of plywood. You might want to switch "cutting implements" in order to deal with the plywood. It's funny how, on the outside, a trailer looks all modern, with modern print-advertising and photographs, printed onto sheet metal... YET... on the INSIDE... the trailer is actually a plywood Wooden Cart. Our modern world owes a great deal to the availability and cost effectiveness of TREES.
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@WillValor007 If you actually own a business, and decide to hire your own kids and/or family, I have no problem with that. What ticks me off is when somebody (often the head of Human Resources) will hire their own kids, to the degree that the family of the HR-guy succeeds to commandeer the entire business, as if he (the HR-guy) owns the place (which he doesn't!) In a place that has a headcount fewer than 80, the joint shouldn't permit the hiring of relatives (unless it's the only employer in a really tiny town.)
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So, if Jersey goes EV, the Law will still apply?
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In an ICE vehicle, you have something called the Fire Wall, which exists between the engine and the occupants. How are EVs going to implement a Fire Wall beneath the Cabin?
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@Bthdk-tc6yi The "business model" for this particular trucking company was as follows... • they would continuously run a relatively local ad, advertising for new drivers, on cable TV, usually during FOXNews types of broadcasts, and usually these ads would run predominantly late at night; • the TV ad would promise new drivers Big Wages, along with a BIG sign-on bonus; • every driver I worked with told me that they NEVER SAW the sign-on bonus in their pay; • the trucking company would always, on every delivery trip, accuse the new driver of shortages (i.e. theft), and would deduct the amount of the shortage from the new driver's pay; • the trucking company regarded New Drivers to be very easy to come by, and, like I already said, this trucking company CONSTANTLY ran a cable TV ad, advertising for New Drivers; • the result was that this trucking company didn't care a wit about New Drivers, and would deliberately tick them off until they predictably quit.
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@travisminneapolis Based upon my own experiences, you are absolutely right. Besides, why would anybody risk their personal reputation over a few knick-knack items? The gain (??) doesn't nearly justify the risk.
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If EVs would use Aluminum/Air batteries, then Full Service attendants could rapidly “swap out” a set of standardized Aluminum metal plates. Occasionally, the same attendants could also replace the Aluminum Hydroxide electrolyte solution. Test vehicles have shown that Aluminum/Air battery EVs can travel 1300 miles. Also, most countries already have the infrastructure for recycling Aluminum.
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