Comments by "" (@MamaMOB) on "Electrifying the US truck fleet is PHYSICALLY IMPOSSIBLE | MGUY Australia" video.

I work with truckers I'm not a trucker. One of the things I always found hilarious was the amount of people who would get a California run and stop right before California and do a handoff. At least 50% of the truckers have dealt with refused to be in California. They won't drive one foot across the border.
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@Luka_3D that doesn't make any sense. By hauling around a heavier battery they can haul around less product. The people who hire them aren't hiring them to lug around a battery. They're hiring them to deliver product. When you deliver less product at one time you get paid less. So what you're saying is it's more economical for them to get paid less per job? No it isn't.
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@mistersmacky Even then it still wouldn't make any sense. Because they'd still be hauling less product at one time. I'm not going to pay you as much as I would if you carried more product if you carry less. In fact I'm probably going to penalize your company for not being able to deliver all of my products in a timely fashion.
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 iscadean3607 to a degree yes. But it weighs a hell of a lot more than all of that stuff so it takes up more. It's like replacing a cherry with a watermelon.
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iscadean3607 Tucker's work 14 hours a day. They deliver more than one delivery per day. If your one delivery seps the entire charge of your battery and you have to charge for 9 hours you're only able to work for 5 hours a day. Either you're not a trucker or you're from California.
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@Luka_3D do the math. If I hire your company to deliver my products and it takes you five trips with a diesel engine and eight trips with an EV I'm going to pay you less if you have an EV if I hire you at all. Because I need my product to be shipped. I need the product to be at the store to be sold. If your vehicle cannot do that I'll hire a company that uses vehicles that can.
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fladave99 from Reuters: The rules mandate 35% of the new cars sold be plug-in hybrid electric (PHEV), EVs or hydrogen fuel cell by 2026. That proportion will rise to 68% by 2030 and 100% by 2035. You were saying? I mean I guess you're right they're not mandates they're actual laws.
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Annette California somehow things they can manage it by like 20 30 or something. They can't even get electricity all the people who need it now.
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And let me tell you! When you lower what's on the trailer truck drivers get pissed! And I mean really pissed! I don't know why. But they do!
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 @phils4634 to be fair he is talking about company drivers who may get paid per hour. And the company doesn't give a flying fuck about the driver.
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