BACK IT UP | 99: Straight From The Pitt | Jake

Hammer Lane Legends

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4.7 • 611 Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2024

⏱️ 97 minutes

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In Episode 99: Straight From The Pitt | Jake, Brian and Tony are joined in-studio by Jake, Tony's former co-worker. Jake talks all about his time working at Pitt-Ohio, including how he worked his way from a dock worker into being a licensed driver. Truck driving seems to run through his veins, as both Jake's dad and grandfather were truckers too. The guys also chatted about their thoughts on what it's like delivering to customers, how weather can effect the job, and if automation could ever actually replace the whole industry. So buckle up and get ready for another trip to the Pitt!

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0:00.0	Merkel
0:02.0	Media
0:04.0	Media
0:05.0	The now I don't think you're going to retire driving truck.
0:36.4	I actually do.
0:37.1	I'm having a hard time believing it myself. I honestly do. Unless if you want to, that's the caveat. If you want to stay in this, because I don't, no matter what we do, no matter what happens with automation, there is no way those trucks are going to back into a company and the customer is going to open that door,
0:54.3	take their own freight off.
0:56.1	There's going to be city drivers all the time.
0:58.1	It's always going to be the delivery guy.
1:00.2	That's just the way it's going to be.
1:01.2	That's what I'm thinking.
1:02.0	You're shaking your head, no.
1:03.0	You're right.
1:03.8	The customers won't unload the truck.
1:05.5	Exactly.
1:05.8	The robots will.
1:16.8	He put it in park through over the driver's door,
1:19.1	ran out the side of the car,
1:20.1	crossed the front of it,
1:22.2	and jumped right off the side of the bridge in front of you.
1:24.9	The only people really pulled over were truckers.
1:29.3	He said, we're going hot, and he didn't slow down. He went across the median onto the oncoming traffic,
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