What To Do With That Electric Semi-Truck Your Former Employer Can’t Find: COTD

There’s an electric semi-truck race out there, and everyone’s putting out their best, from Volvo to Tesla. There are some upstarts out there, too, and some of them are finding out that, like cars, building semi-trucks is hard. Apparently, for Windrose, so is keeping track of the truck you did build. You know what that means!

Thomas wrote a Morning Dump that contained a story from the Wall Street Journal titled “A Trucking Startup Aims to Challenge Tesla. Now, Paychecks Are Missing—and So Is a Truck”. Sid Bridge:

Two former employees fired in January, Travis Waite and Harold Keller, refused to help locate the vehicle until Han paid them a combined $91,000 in unpaid wages and benefits. They still haven’t been paid, they say, and the truck remains at large.

Given the striking similarity to the plot of “Airwolf” I really hope these two guys have the truck painted black and are stashing it in a hollowed-out mountain, only going to get it when they need to be champions of justice for the downtrodden.

If you have no idea what Airwolf is, the show’s Wikipedia entry seems to summarize its plot well enough. Here’s a sweet intro video:

I wrote a COTD about the hilarity of our first-ever Members’ track day. Kevin Rhodes keeps the jokes flowing:

I’m pretty sure a grandfather clock is overkill for timing a stock 2CV. I recommend a sundial.

David wrote about why his kid really loves wheels. Sid Bridge makes a return:

I guess the idea of babies establishing schemas really does hold air in a roundabout way until they get tired of it.

7Cincinnatus:

We can just assume that Torch got stuck on the “red plastic, sometimes amber or clear, illuminated from within to convey information” schema and has yet to move to his next stage of development.

Matt DeCraene:

I’d just assume that in 20ish years Delmar (NHRN) will be the proud owner of the wheel enthusiast bar, “Rolling Stock” that he renovated from the failed taillight enthusiast bar, “The Scarlett Glow”

Thomas also wrote about the Ferrari12Cilindri Manuale, and its gated DCT. V10omous:

This seems a bit silly, in that if there’s really demand for a 6 speed, the customer who demands one would pay enough to cover development costs, whatever those are.

I hate the “rich people are rich, so they’ll pay anything” attitude, but in this case it’s probably true. 1500 units, charging an extra $100,000 for a gated manual option, and you have $150 million to cover engineering and testing. Not enough? Charge $200,000 for the option. Force someone to buy 3 Luces. Whatever, they wouldn’t care.

Have a great evening, everyone!

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