{"id":6768,"date":"2018-03-19T10:30:07","date_gmt":"2018-03-19T10:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ushipblogsubd.wpengine.com\/?p=6768"},"modified":"2025-09-03T15:23:58","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T15:23:58","slug":"top-10-ways-keep-busy-piloting-driverless-truck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ushipblogsubd.wpengine.com\/industry-trends\/top-10-ways-keep-busy-piloting-driverless-truck\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 10 Ways Truck Drivers Can Keep Busy While Piloting a \u2018Driverless\u2019 Truck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While there\u2019s no match for the skilled, experienced human truck drivers of today, several tests of self-driving, autonomous trucks signal that a new era is on our collective tail. Whether its Uber road testing across Arizona, Tesla all-electric trucks spotted in California, Waymo running a pilot in Georgia, or Starsky putting a truly driverless truck to the test in Florida, there&#8217;s no doubt the race is on.<\/p>\n<p>With the exception of Starsky&#8217;s test, which apparently was done without a driver or pilot in the cab, it\u2019s hard to say exactly when these machines will be truly autonomous. In the meantime, they\u2019ll still be piloted by an experienced driver to ensure it\u2019s all systems go.<\/p>\n<p>This led us to wonder, how does a truck driver keep busy while piloting\u00a0 \u2018driverless\u2019 trucks?<\/p>\n<h2>Here\u2019s what we came up with:<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"10 Ways to Keep Busy While Piloting a Self Driving Truck\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ysN5BYIJGmU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>Like the Top 10 Tips to Stay Busy in Driverless Trucks? You\u2019ll love these! Enjoy&#8230;<\/h2>\n<p>11. Call driverless truck company\u2019s 800-number hourly to ask &#8216;What\u2019s this button do?<br \/>\n12. At 65\u00a0mph, poke head out window, yell, \u201cLook, Mom, no hands!\u201d<br \/>\n13. Watch sports 24\/7, wonder how Joe Buck still has a job<br \/>\n14. At a Houston-area Buc-ee\u2019s, introduce yourself as &#8216;The Hoff&#8217; and the truck as &#8220;KITT\u201d<br \/>\n15. Finally figure out that darn Rubix Cube<br \/>\n16. Sing Carrie Underwood\u2019s Jesus, Take the Wheel\u00a0at the top of your lungs<br \/>\n17. Watch C-Span, wonder why there are two C-Spans<br \/>\n18. Handwrite all those thank you notes put off since 1993<br \/>\n19. Watch all \u2018The Fast and the Furious\u2019 movies (except Tokyo Drift, of course)<br \/>\n20. Read truck\u2019s owner\u2019s manual cover to cover, reflect on its meaning<br \/>\n21. In McDonald\u2019s drive-thru, order BigMac for self, McRib sandwich for truck<br \/>\n22. Watch Smokey &amp;amp; the Bandit, google Jackie Gleason to see if he\u2019s still\u00a0alive<br \/>\n23. Set birthday reminders in day planner for all extended family, even cousin Chet<br \/>\n24. Pick fight with self. Blame self for starting it. See if truck will &#8216;come back and finish it&#8217;<br \/>\n25. Practice insults for that day when you meet inventors of driverless truck<br \/>\n26. Imagine you\u2019re riding in Optimus Prime and going to pick up Megan Fox<br \/>\n27. Play Euro Truck Simulator in passenger seat, pretend you\u2019re in head-to-head competition<br \/>\n28. Call friends and family, tell them you\u2019ve been abducted but &#8216;won&#8217;t be gone long&#8217;<br \/>\n29. Cut into active CB channels and trash talk in best Ross Perot voice<br \/>\n30. Finally reach under the seat for that darn noisy Skittle that keeps rolling around<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While there\u2019s no match for the skilled, experienced human truck drivers of today, several tests of self-driving, autonomous trucks signal that a new era is on our collective tail. Whether its Uber road testing across Arizona, Tesla all-electric trucks spotted in California, Waymo running a pilot in Georgia, or Starsky putting a truly driverless truck&#8230;<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/ushipblogsubd.wpengine.com\/industry-trends\/top-10-ways-keep-busy-piloting-driverless-truck\/\"> Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":6772,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[294],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-trends"],"acf":{"blog_post_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"blog_post_entry_footer","blog_post_entry_footer_cta":[{"blog_post_entry_footer_cta_url":"http:\/\/www.uship.com\/ship","blog_post_entry_footer_cta_text":"List a Shipment Now","blog_post_entry_footer_onclick":""}]}]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ushipblogsubd.wpengine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ushipblogsubd.wpengine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ushipblogsubd.wpengine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ushipblogsubd.wpengine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ushipblogsubd.wpengine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ushipblogsubd.wpengine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ushipblogsubd.wpengine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ushipblogsubd.wpengine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ushipblogsubd.wpengine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ushipblogsubd.wpengine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}