Kiwisee
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Canadian Truckers Convoy 2022 - The Leaf calls you a Nazi as he gasses you
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MrJokerRager
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Everyone blames the Americans, at last Trudeau is acting like his father and probably has embraced Islam as well at this point.
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I'm looking forward to all the high tech Wile E Coyote shit people would try on Amazon trucks in remote areas.
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If blaming us ends the crazy, I’ll take it.
Oxous
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Trucker Blockade at U.S.-Canada Border Causes Over $1B in Losses Daily
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The anti-COVID mandate protesters blocking several U.S.-Canada border crossings are set to take a tremendous economic toll on both countries, with more than a billion dollars in losses each day the blockade continues.
"It's over a billion dollars a day [in goods and services] that goes across the Canadian border," Arthur Wheaton, the director of labor studies at Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations, told Newsweek. "If you have a disruption like that, it doesn't take long to get into tens of billions or hundreds of billions of dollars."
"That's the total value for some of these car companies," he added. "So in a matter of a couple of months, you're talking about losing more money than all of General Motors is worth."
Canadian truckers—who have been protesting and causing gridlock in Ottawa for two weeks—extended their efforts to the Ambassador Bridge between Detroit and Windsor, Ontario on Monday night, shutting down inbound traffic and critically injuring a major supply route into Michigan, where the auto industry is bearing the worst of the blockade.
Earlier this week, Toyota and Ford halted production in response to the protests.
Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer has called on the Canadian government to de-escalate the situation for the state's "working families who are just trying to do their job" but are feeling the effects of the fallout.
More than two-thirds of the $511 billion of goods traded annually between the U.S. and Canada are transported by road. The Ambassador Bridge alone transports $323 million worth of goods each day.
In 2019, Canada was Michigan's largest export destination with 41 percent of the state's exports to the world. The value of that trade totaled $23.1 billion.
The Biden administration says it is also closely monitoring the situation and its impacts on the already fragile supply chain.
On Thursday, White House economic adviser Brian Deese told MSNBC the protests "do nothing but hurt the economy, hurt families who are, you know, just trying to make a living."
"When you get the White House worried that means there are some significant risks involved," Wheaton said. "Canada has long been our most important trade partner and the auto sector, in particular, has been very dependent on the trade between the U.S. and Canada for the production and distribution of goods."
He said the protests are coming at a "terrible" time for the auto sector, especially since cross-border trade had finally begun returning to normal for the first time since the pandemic.
Industries in Michigan, New York and Ohio—which all have major plants located in Ontario—will be the first to feel the impacts of the protests.
"This Midwest area close to the Great Lakes absolutely depends on the Canadian border for getting parts back and forth across. It's pretty important for most of the auto companies to be able to get the product across the border," Wheaton said. "Ontario is a very large producer of automative parts."
"If you have a shortage of any one product or any one part, you have to stop the assembly lines," he explained, adding that any part that doesn't show up on time can cause a shortage of cars that are worth, on average, $50,000 each.
The halts will also take a toll on the paycheck of many blue-collar workers who have no production lines to clock-in to.
The anti-COVID mandate protesters blocking several U.S.-Canada border crossings are set to take a tremendous economic toll on both countries, with more than a billion dollars in losses each day the blockade continues.
"It's over a billion dollars a day [in goods and services] that goes across the Canadian border," Arthur Wheaton, the director of labor studies at Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations, told Newsweek. "If you have a disruption like that, it doesn't take long to get into tens of billions or hundreds of billions of dollars."
"That's the total value for some of these car companies," he added. "So in a matter of a couple of months, you're talking about losing more money than all of General Motors is worth."
Canadian truckers—who have been protesting and causing gridlock in Ottawa for two weeks—extended their efforts to the Ambassador Bridge between Detroit and Windsor, Ontario on Monday night, shutting down inbound traffic and critically injuring a major supply route into Michigan, where the auto industry is bearing the worst of the blockade.
Earlier this week, Toyota and Ford halted production in response to the protests.
Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer has called on the Canadian government to de-escalate the situation for the state's "working families who are just trying to do their job" but are feeling the effects of the fallout.
More than two-thirds of the $511 billion of goods traded annually between the U.S. and Canada are transported by road. The Ambassador Bridge alone transports $323 million worth of goods each day.
In 2019, Canada was Michigan's largest export destination with 41 percent of the state's exports to the world. The value of that trade totaled $23.1 billion.
The Biden administration says it is also closely monitoring the situation and its impacts on the already fragile supply chain.
On Thursday, White House economic adviser Brian Deese told MSNBC the protests "do nothing but hurt the economy, hurt families who are, you know, just trying to make a living."
"When you get the White House worried that means there are some significant risks involved," Wheaton said. "Canada has long been our most important trade partner and the auto sector, in particular, has been very dependent on the trade between the U.S. and Canada for the production and distribution of goods."
He said the protests are coming at a "terrible" time for the auto sector, especially since cross-border trade had finally begun returning to normal for the first time since the pandemic.
Industries in Michigan, New York and Ohio—which all have major plants located in Ontario—will be the first to feel the impacts of the protests.
"This Midwest area close to the Great Lakes absolutely depends on the Canadian border for getting parts back and forth across. It's pretty important for most of the auto companies to be able to get the product across the border," Wheaton said. "Ontario is a very large producer of automative parts."
"If you have a shortage of any one product or any one part, you have to stop the assembly lines," he explained, adding that any part that doesn't show up on time can cause a shortage of cars that are worth, on average, $50,000 each.
The halts will also take a toll on the paycheck of many blue-collar workers who have no production lines to clock-in to.
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It won't. It'll make the bugmen go "oh, so it was the Americans." and all the bugbrains still listening to the talking heads will agree with forcible removal, ending the whole shebang exactly how the WEF planned it. Don't take the blame. Reject it. Remind Trudeau that these are HIS PEOPLE fighting the good fight.
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Kiwisee
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Kevin Grumbles
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I work with automated sorting, labeling, and conveying systems sometimes as part of my job. They can't even figure out how to get stickers onto boxes properly for longer than a couple hours without breaking themselves. Anyone who expects us to upgrade to a level of automated trucks driving around and not have it be an unadulterated shit show is deluding themselves. At the absolute most, I can see extremely small designated routes for them set up in 10-20 years, but they'd be extremely limited (Town/City level at most, not even County level) and a terrifyingly deep money pit of inefficiency, security nightmares, and maintenance.
The only reason anyone is so hype on them is because they learned from the monorail gig - There's a LOT of money to get laundered and misplaced under the guise of "progress".
The only people I see needing to fear automation throwing them out on their ass in any real capacity are cashiers and fast food workers, everyone else is pretty damned safe for the foreseeable future.
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Protests aren’t about making people comfortable, sweaty.
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Trudeau's father was an asshole and it's not surprising to see his idiot son follow in his footsteps. I just can't believe he'd be that utterly stupid as to suddenly go "I-It was America! Americans did this!" The more he talks, the more I want to drive down to the Montana border and chill out with everyone.
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I'm gonna try to answer this as accurately as I can as a sort of practice test because I'm autistic, I haven't gotten around to the all parts of inspection quite yet. I'd appreciate pointing out anything I'm missing as it's helpful for learning. Not in order.
-Check air pressure to make sure it gets up to the cut in pressure then gets up to the cut out pressure
-Check slack adjusters by pulling on them and making sure they don't move more than 1 inch
-Check to make sure low pressure light is working by letting out air by pressing on the breaks. Light must come on before PSI gets to 60
-Check to make sure spring brakes engage by letting out air. Spring brakes should engage at around 20-30 PSI
-Check service brakes
-Check air leakage rates, should be below 2 PSI/m for solo vehicles and 3 PSI/m for combo vehicles
-Check the air compressor drive belt to make sure it's not damaged or worn
-Check brakes to make sure the drums or disks do not have any cracks more than 1/2 the width of the friction area and must not be loose or slick
-Check air fill rate, should be about 15 PSI per 45 seconds from 85 to 100 PSI
So yeah, lots of shit just for the brake system, and I'm probably missing quite a few things. AI is gonna have problems I would imagine.
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MrJokerRager
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And it's fucking working
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Yea it's actually surprising how hard it is to automate seemingly simple stuff on scale. Without power leveling, there's a prototype machine that cost millions where I work that puts a certain kind of paste in a certain type of container. It's still being tuned in to work at a profitable level as it's constantly damaging itself to significant degrees
ColtWalker1847
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Be nice to grandpa. He's all wound up because he's remembering bombing Juno beach for the Canucks in 1944.
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Their is a big difference where the traffic blocking protests is being done. A city center by the seat of government is a prime example of an area that deserves the most protection because of the clear political message it sends.
This is highlighted in the time, PLACE, and manner considerations the courts have analyzed protests through.
Now, I am not as supportive of the border protests but I understand why its being done.
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I think he was referring to the tried and true narrative of socialist Latin American governments like Castro's to blame all of their social ills and unrest on American interference.
El Goblina
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Here's a BC pre-trip inspection report.
