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.
Why is organizing not an option? Seems like you’ve ignored every reply here regarding unions, when in reality it’s the only possible way to ever get rid of the AI (and probably get you better pay and benefits)
Are you paid by the hour or per delivery? If by hour, malicious compliance. Stay 5mph below speed limit because you don’t want to be flagged. AI doesn’t recognize the street as such? Take a long detour, it didn’t allow me to take that route. It complains about overtaking? Never overtake ever again someone was to close to the truck when you tried to back in? Never back in again unless the premises is completely clear of people. Oh and find a better employer. An employer that doesn’t trusts its employees is never worth it.
It’s usually per mile if its long haul, which is the root of all the problems because that incentivizes the driver to go faster and spend less time on other things. And it fucks the driver over because they don’t get paid if they’re not moving, even if they’re waiting on someone else.
“You forgot your wife’s birthday again. Why can’t you be more like your cousin Jeffery? You need to lose weight.”
“Shut up!!”
“I’m sorry, Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that.”
Yeah, this guy got AI when the rest of us have to settle for parents or in-laws!
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 (:
It’s trucking, you should stop dismissing a union
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.
Yeah, talk to your union about this.
20 years ago truckers were offended by GPS tracking
Shit in the glove compartment to assert dominance.
This is becoming more common in a variety of jobs. I work in tech, and have heard from colleagues about their experiences with nanny software. Without a union, your best bet is malicious compliance. I would start looking for hacker communities and posting there, because there can be simple but non-obvious ways to circumvent controls while still seeming to comply, which protects your job.
This is the best option as I see it…
No. If you want privacy, transportation is the wrong career. Trains are much the same.
Do you know what kind of sensors it relies on to observe its surroundings?
It’s probably more than just this, but if anything audio related, you could try to come up with a poisonify device to fuck with it.
Might be more trouble than it’s worth if you’re not tech savvy, wish there was more stuff like this I could recommend.
ETA: Also wondering if something like a Flipper Zero or HackRF One could help create some convincing false-positives.
ETA2: read the replies to my comment, valid concerns regarding getting fired and/or throwing off the scent from yourself
Poison multiple people’s trucks at the same time and not yours in the first wave certainly
A well placed magnet might help…
Ive been saying we need to be developing consumer grade emps before its too late
My company has their own llm now meant for internal employees, what baffles me is they exposed the domain to the internet. Can’t wait for this to backfire.
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…
You could think about starting one.
https://seattleiww.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/how-to-fire-your-boss-2022.pdf
What country?
Canada
Teamsters Canada? They have a freight division: https://teamsters.ca/about/union-profile/
Are you talking about a commercial truck or you personal vehicle? If it’s a truck you drive as your job, you’re probably screwed. I’d be pissed as hell, but I don’t imagine there’s much you can do other than quit. If it’s your private vehicle, let me know the company selling it so I never buy one of their vehicles.
company truck
That sucks. I’m not sure what options you have. Are you union?
no
Why the fuck not?
not everyone has that option
See previous comment.
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.
