Donner Pass

And I think it was 16 hours down.

And 18 hours back, because it was a snowstorm in the Donner Pass.

And so we're on the way back.

And on the way down and on the way back, these three guys are telling jazz.

And then the next day I was like, hey, I haven't gone to the mountains yet.

So I went up to Donner Pass and there's Donner Lake and there's a nice little ski lodge that's open.

And I had a burger and a beer.

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It requires fuel to create heat through thermogenesis.

The old truckers, the guys who drove through the Donner Pass in the dead of winter, kept their survival prep incredibly simple.

A case of bottled water and a cheap box of simple calories that will not freeze solid into an inedible brick.

Granola bars, peanut butter crackers, hard candies.

Yeah, the warmer weather actually means traditionally that you can also have the opportunity for more moisture because warmer air temperatures, of course, hold more water for the weatherman herds out there.

And the West Coast, man, that Donner Pass, I remember back in the day, just...

Having to figure out whether it was snowing and they just get dumped on.

And there's no such thing as rain on Daughter Pass in January.

The data that's coming directly from the fleets themselves, other vehicles that are out there, you know, we could spend Dave is talking about that as well as all of the autonomous data, but also the actual collected data from personal vehicles, the logistic vehicles, all of that plays into the decision-making process.

And as that data becomes more ubiquitous in the infrastructure and AI is able to process it more quickly, we can make better decisions quicker for that operator.

So instead of them having to drive into bad conditions or at least be prepared to drive into those conditions, you know, you mentioned Donner Pass and knowing that you're going to have to chain up depending on where you're at is valuable information for that operator.

And we know that, you know, the operators, there's a lot of turnover, there's a lot of changes.

Um, but w- we did it and we wound up coming back into, um, um, you know, back over the Cross Bronx Expressway.

And I know this truck had a lot of, uh- Had a lot of, uh, m- media coverage with the Donner Pass.

Well, um, if you've never been on the Cross Bronx Expressway at rush hour, it's, it makes the Donner Pass seem like a cakewalk.

And, uh, uh, so it, it was, um, it was quite a day, and actually the, one of the keys to the thing is, to the truck is the, the regenerative braking.

So every time, you hardly touch the brake.

Why did you say long pig? What is long pig? We're here in the

Donner Pass.

You're saying you ate some long pig jerky when there's beautiful, succulent Chinese chicken feet over here?

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You're acting like a damn cannibal.

It's on the nose.

We're in the Donner Pass, and you're eating jerky, and you're biting it, and there's fucking chicken feet right here that I slaved over.

I know it didn't sound like it because it's just spoken word, and we're in the theater of the mind, but I actually fucking was sweating while I was making this because...

But what? We did it, and we wound up coming back into, you know, back over the Cross Bronx Expressway.

And I know this truck had a lot of media coverage with the Donner Pass.

Well, if you've never been on the Cross Bronx Expressway at rush hour, it makes the Donner Pass seem like a cakewalk.

and so it was it was quite a day and actually the one of the keys to the thing is to the truck is the the regenerative braking so every time you're hardly touched the brake the motor slows you down enough where it just it breaks the truck automatically and actually when it breaks the truck it it repowers the the battery while it's doing that so This driver on the 180 length of haul or kind of what we really do, he was more and said that the truck has to be managed.

So that was his first take.

I need an incoming missile right now.

It's going to be like the Donner Pass.

They're going to literally be eating each other.

It's coming.

away.

It's like you were at Donner Pass.

It was.

Thank you.