Find a company that’s already unionized or form a union within your current company.
You might also tell them that the AI is distracting because it’s constantly talking, which is likely true anyway.
Stick a chewing gum on the thing’s speaker and start singing songs with very dirty and explicit lyrics, like gangsta rap and Bloodhound Gang.
All day long, everyday.
Persuade your colleagues to do the same.
They will have an endless string of report notifications they can’t do shit about.
Fight smart.A well placed magnet might help…
Ive been saying we need to be developing consumer grade emps before its too late
Btw these little DIY 2.4 GHz jammers are also very handy to have just in case. As long as you get them out the way before you set off the EMP generator 😅
radio jammers like this are federally illegal in the US and possession of one is a massive felony. That’s if anyone notices and you get caught, but just a heads up.
Oh good to know. Pretty sure owning them is fine in Germany but distribution or actually using them will still get you in trouble.
yeah owning one alone is unlikely to get you caught, and you can probably come up with excuses (“it’s just an SDR not a jammer!”) but they’re extremely heavily restricted over here.
They phone home over cell. Usually 4g LTE with relatively high gain antennas. You wont jam it with that.
No that one was just meant as a general lifehack 😅
A lifehack that might wind you up in federal prison. Breaking company equipment is one thing and it might cost you your job and a small settlement. That’s the kind of advice I don’t mind giving. I do generally try not to tell people to commit felonies.
This is for emergencies, during riots and such because it can take down drones and disrupt communication. I think people should figure out for themselves if their use case is morally permissible and worth the risk. I’m just sharing info that’s readily available. Also owning this is legal where I live and I’m not even sure we have a word for felony.
Only if US drivers would stop driving like idiots and idling their motors wasting fuel.
Don’t American cars have a start stop automation that stops the engine as soon as the car isn’t driving? Or are they also disabling it?
It exists in some cars, but it’s clunky and anyone with used car experience gets a jump scare every time it happens. It’s really only well implemented in hybrids.
That’s gotta burn out starters really fast.
The few times I’ve heard anyone discuss auto stop/start in Oklahoma, it was to complain about it or comment that they’ve disabled it. Meanwhile in my work vehicle, the stop/start has saved hundreds of hours of idling over the car’s lifetime, and it’s only about halfway to being retired.
Try to find the fuse which powers the device.
You’re looking for anything related to radio or telemetry.
Push the fuse back in when you’re done working for the day.
If they ask what was wrong, pretend you don’t know what they mean. It’s not your truck. Maybe they should have their technician look into it, everything seemed fine on your end.
This works until they swap his truck so he can keep working while it goes back into the shop.
What can I do?
Varies wildly.
Some people are in unions, others “at will” employment.
This is something to ask coworkers and hopefully a union rep.
No union…
What country?
Canada
Teamsters Canada? They have a freight division: https://teamsters.ca/about/union-profile/
You could think about starting one.
https://seattleiww.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/how-to-fire-your-boss-2022.pdf
This is the reason Unions exist.
Individually you have no power. As a group you do have power to force them to revoke these decisions.
Your choice is joining a Union or not.
Ok, but what can OP do now? I support joining a union. But if there is none, then forming one takes time.
Is there anything that OP can do now? Quit, maybe?
Also of you try to get your peers to unionize they “find a reason” to fire you for something totally unrelated
That’s why you vandalize the bathrooms at your workplace (in OP’s case, it’d be the “distribution center”) with pro-union messages 😏
Quit and work on a jobsite somewhere with a motley crew of blue collar misfits?
Pretty much it. Unless there’s an infringement of labor law. I don’t know where they work or much about other countries labor laws.
They would probably need to hire a lawyer in this case. Unions usually also help in these cases.
Another comment said unions aren’t interested in getting rid of this.
Not my experience.
In my job they are trying to do something similar (AI driven productivity control) and unions are fighting against it.
Crazy idea I haven’t seen posted here, but hear me out:
Stop driving like a dick. Follow the rules of the road. Stop speeding. Stop swerving. Stop going over the lines at stop signs and traffic lights. ETC…
This will slow down the route by hours. That’s the only way that they’ll discontinue it, when they realize that it’s making the delivery routes slower.
and stop driving like a dick, you’re driving a fucking truck.
Have you driven a 26 wheeler in the city with people that don’t pay attention or even know the rules of the road?
You trust some POS computer over a human driver? I don’t. If the damn computer is so correct in its assessment, it should be driving. And, obviously, I know that’s coming, but it’s not here yet. It should be one, or the other, not a computer back-seat driver.
Usually they just flag events like really hard braking or other high-g events, speeding, travelling off-route if you pay for that module, and operating hours. At least that’s the easy to tattle stuff. They’re not smart enough to do anything like drive for you.
But some operators DO need to calm the fuck down and just obey the speed limit. These things usually let their manager know they’re shitty drivers before the police let them know they’re shitty drivers and they subsequently lose their DOT certification.
Meh, these systems are ripe for false positives, all it does is weed out riskier drivers, or provide incentive to encourage reduction in pay and benefits in order to mitigate said “risk.” These systems are cancerous.
It’s never the speeder at fault, it’s always those damn {politicians, cops, other drivers, cameras} who are wrong.
I would get another job. During your exit interview, make sure they know this is the sole reason you are leaving.
its trucking they dont care (:
There’s an oversupply of ununionized trucker labor, so they’ll likely just replace you until union strikes cause a labor shortage.
I know people at a freightline company. They have retirement parties for 25-year workers about 2-3 times a year that I hear about.
There are good trucking outfits out there. you Canadian?
D’ya wanna be?
D’ya wanna be?
Don’t threaten me with a good time.
They don’t care until they don’t have any truckers. Then they care.
If its a big company like old dominion, they likely wont give a fuck ever, but my company always has trouble keeping hold of truckers and they really do give a shit about the churn.
It’s trucking, you should stop dismissing a union
The lady has sung.
you could blow up solera’s HQ. that would definitely make them consider the cost/benefit
Typical of the practicality and savvy of the answers given in this thread
Quit. Let them know why you quit. You are a truck driver and can get another job within a week.
Your options (pick any combination you please):
- do whatever you can do to make it more bearable in the short term (turn down volume of AI warnings, whatever else you can configure)
- Unionize
- Bargain with your company/Negotiate your contracts
- Get hired by a new company that gives a shit about their employees
- Become an owner-operator
- start a trucking firm with a bunch of other drivers that are fed up with that bullshit
- Find a different kind of job that doesn’t require AI to surveil and harass you.
Those are good options but I get paid 32.75 per hour during the week and 40.75 on weekends and its a pretty cushy job. Hard to just get new job.
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When i was fed up with the bosses in my cushy job, I made the job more cushy by starting my independent company. Same work, more money, no assholes treating me like shit and i learned from that. Now my colleges also have a cushy job, with a competent, nice boss.
You hiring? 😎
Not currently but it’s a software dev company anyways. We have to logistics software though. And not the asshole kind.
In the end, your mental and physical health should always come before the job. Money isn’t that nice if you are stressed wreck. You should still look for other work just so you at least have some options if it ever gets too awful dealing with all the bullshit your current work forces on you. It’s probably not going to get much better and any solution regarding disabling/mitigating the current surveillance is likely temporary at best.
Just try to do it in such way your current employer doesn’t know about it, just in case they get uppity about it. So use only devices managed by yourself for it and dont talk about it with others working for same employer.
Line up a new job. Then get in the passenger side of the truck and let the AI drive today.
Then enjoy your new job knowing you made the world a better place.
You can of course quit now, but that will mean you’re job hunting while unemployed, which is a far worse scenario. You can also just put up with it, but it sounds like that’s a shit scenario too.
So the best course of action you can immediately take right now is go window shopping for a new job until you find something you like. Whether it comes by this week or six months from now, you have the luxury of having nothing to lose here and you have the best hand.
Even look at getting a new certification if you feel like it and if you can—ball’s in your court. Every time that little bastard undermines you, let it be the fuel that’s encouraging you off to greener pastures. Explain that in your exit interview, and remark on how they’ve come up with an interesting employee retention strategy.
20 years ago truckers were offended by GPS tracking
Its understandable though. Even though its also understandable the company would want to know where the trucks are, its also telling the drivers that they dont really trust them to do their job without surveillance. It should be enough that the freight gets delivered within agreed time and not too much fuel is used up in the process.
Personally i would compare the gps to office having sensors that record constantly which room you are occupying. With the ai its like having a camera constantly monitor exactly what are you doing at every given moment. And if you do anything company doesn’t like you will be punished. Not only is it insulting, its exhausting having to ceaselessly consider is everything you are doing acceptable to whatever sensible or insensible rules the corporate executives have decided.
People who want to be truckers most likely are kind of people who like working by themselves and not having to answer for every single thing they do at every moment and now even that is being taken away from them.
Of COURSE they don’t 100% trust fallible human beings with their multi million dollar assets and consignments. It’s not insulting unless you are all up in your ego. It should not be insulting.
And if you do anything company doesn’t like you will be punished.
Doesn’t change anything. You don’t have to swim faster than the shark, you just have to swim faster than the worst trucker on staff. Just means that they company has better data to make the same decisions they were already making. If it’s bad for one trucker, it’s good for another who was until now going without recognition.
i love pitting the rats against each other to see who can get the crumb first
