crops like grapes and others must be harvested by hand.
20 years ago, you had to pick strawberries and blueberries by hand too. These days you don't. You don't even need to pick grapes by hand unless you're in the ice wine business, you can buy the equipment to automate most grape harvesting too. Brand new machines can be picked up for around $500k, used(2-3yrs old) on the market as low as $40k.
Well let's be honest. If things were like they were back in the 1980's and early 90's when I worked during the summer(and late fall for tobacco harvest) on a farm, you'd see more people doing it. Back then you were paid an hourly rate. Now you're paid based on weight that you pick. It was the state and provincial governments of the day that allowed it to happen because the big corporate farms started crying "but we can't pay them an actual wage..." so the laws were changed to weight. Then they cried "but people don't want to work for that little!" And the laws were changed again allowing them to import labor.
More like a double or triple ride. As you pointed out, there's no taxes being collected by gas. The electricity in the charging stations is "free" and I use that term loosely, because the actual cost of it is coming out of general taxes, or municipal taxes which have to offset that cost. There's also generally "transmission" taxes, and then taxes on the electricity itself which aren't being paid by people who are driving them.
If electric car owners had to pay the price for electricity when using those stations, it would quickly dry up. Especially in places like Ontario, where "peak"(8am-8pm) they'd be paying $0.18kWh plus transmission(probably $10-30) on top of the electricity price. Right now, that's being paid for out of general taxes.
Perhaps if your ads weren't so fucking obnoxious and intrusive.
Oh come now. Just because those sites want to inject malware, and don't give a fuck when it also drains your bank account and refuse to accept any responsibility when the ransomware also gets installed because they refuse to vet any ads isn't their fault.
You're just stealing from them or something. Really this is the type of stuff in-browser crypto mining should be for, visit the site knock out some CPU power, they get paid in whatever funds, and can cash it out. Now all you need to do is get the malware companies to stop flagging it as malware.
Even worse than that is when those people get mod points, and use them to create the echo chamber.
Have you meta-moderated lately? Or it could be you've managed to piss people off to the point that they simply don't care what you're saying, or your opinion is just complete shit. All and none can be true.
So, anywhere from 19 million to 53 million US jobs will NOT be able to be easily shifted. And US job training programs are just world renowned for.. yeah, can't even fake lie, our training programs are useless feel good projects.
That's not just the US, it's pretty much everywhere. Thing is if we see huge shifts in automation like that where large parts of society can't find work, you'll either have to expand the safety net or change how the economy itself works. Or, you can always go another route. With FB, Google, Uber and so on pushing minicome and so on, simply tax them at 60-75% to pay for it. I'll bet that said automation will never happen then.
Slightly to the topic of a living wage, wait for the $15/hr minimum wage to hit Ontario, Canada though. The very best minimum estimate is that the province is going to lose 80k jobs, the worst case is 400k. That's either a 0.8% unemployment jump or nearly 3%...oh yeah, that's gonna cause a lot of problems. Now on top of that PT work is the main job creator in Canada, especially in Ontario. Let's roll out some of the worse stuff, like a 0.25% increase in the mortgage rate, you're looking at 20% of people unable to pay within 60 days. 0.5% is 40% movements of 1% or more? 50-60% of all mortgages currently would be under in 90 days. And they're talking about a 2% increase in the next year.
A fine is probably appropriate (locking people up seems like overkill) as long as it is sufficiently large to make them take note. On the other hand there is a good argument for the fine being in proportion to the offence.
The problem we're seeing is that the fines don't reflect to the proportion of the offence in many cases. Either because the law doesn't allow it or because it's strictly limited by regulations, which is why you're hearing more clamor for locking people up over it. If there's even the possibility of someone being locked up over privacy violations? Well you're going to see a big push by companies to lobby for higher fines. But since government works at a snails pace, and are usually 20 years behind the time, I wouldn't expect anything before 2025 at the very earliest.
Shouldn't be a surprise. When you hold dominant market share in multiple areas, you're gonna get sued. In google's case, they're likely making that legal department even larger just in-case they get hit with antitrust laws, which seems to be in the wind on both sides of the pond.
Pretty much. A lot of what people go in for isn't the article itself, but the comments. Same thing with newspapers(letters to the editor), or online comments and so on. It's one of the reasons why talk radio is popular, the topic might elicit opinions but people would much rather discuss their opinions on something most of the time. The worst cases of this though, are when you get the ideological echo chambers. I'm not talking about format, or what have you. Rather, where people don't care about the context or even the facts of what's being said, rather they want self-reinforcement of an opinion even if it's wrong.
Hell I'm in Canada and my old '96 Saturn SW2 that finally gave up with a subframe failure after hitting a cumbling chunk of overpass a few years ago, would still get around 38-42mpg on most trips. When it was newerish back in '96/97 I'd once gotten 51mpg(460mi on 9US gallons oh the joy of filling the tank for $5 in Indianapolis no less), most of the time it was right around 40mpg(which was common for the SL/SW series), even when I drove cross-country from southern ontario through the US, through N.Dakota, to northern alberta I managed to get around 43mpg which was still amazing in 2010. Minus mountain driving of course, which really sucked down the performance right around 28mpg through Banff National park.
Got a problem though. The grid is already straining under the low number of electric vehicles on the road in several places, so that means utility upgrades and all the rest. What's that mean? Well it means higher electricity prices to offset those upgrades.
Let me translate: "I posted child porn and calls for Jews to be exterminated and subreddits banned me!"
What can get you banned from/r/politics: "Trump is doing okay." What can get you banned from/r/europe: "Migrants are causing a surge of crime" - including crime statistics with country of origin. What get's you banned from/r/canadianpolitics: "illegals surging into Canada are taking resources from Canadians already struggling."
I am honestly asking why should this person be prohibited from purchasing the company? If your argument is based on morality then perhaps you should reexamine the situation.
They likely believe he shouldn't be able to buy them because Thiel isn't left wing therefor can't keep that same level of muckracking that they'd been doing for years. It was only a matter of time before Gawker managed to commit suduko anyway.
The writing was already on the wall for that, the entire buy-up by univision was funny though, especially when all the reporters who say they're bloggers, then claim they're reporters when convenient started quitting because univision required actual ethical standards out of them. And now in this whole situation univision is trying to sell off chunks of what they bought from Gawker because they're money losers.
With the current state of the ad market, and adpocolypse 2.0 now on the horizon? If Thiel is offering money, they'd better get in a head of this ad crash. If you didn't hear anything on it, even more companies are pulling ads from youtube, google, adwords, and other associated stuff. Why? Because their ads were appearing next to the apparent pedofarming videos that were targeted at children. See the elsagate stuff if you really want to know, fair warning, it's massively fucked up. Or you can watch/listen this vid from mundanematt bout 12mins long.
You mean it's legal to shoot at random truckers? Or is reckless endangerment something only truckers get a pass on?
You should go drive for a year, or become friends with a trucker. Because the industry is currently a shitshow, it got worse in the US under Obama. Regs were pushed down hard, because US trucking companies need more drivers, more trucks on the road and so on. It's going to get far worse before it gets better as well, and most of the really big problems come from fly-by-night schools and shady companies that use them to hire directly and are basically imported people from poor countries where driving regulations really don't exist.
No. Because they're effectively guidelines because every state(and every province) has their own effective trucking guidelines. Don't forget this part: Does not apply to drivers using either of the short-haul exceptions in 395.1(e). [49 CFR 397.5 mandatory âoein attendanceâ time may be included in break if no other duties performed.
You can get around mandatory breaks by filing "long haul" and making into multiple "short hauls" as well. It's shady as fuck, and it happens a lot, there was a big and I do mean big discussion on it in several trucking mags a half year back, and demands from trucker associations and unions to get it changed. That's not even touching on the companies that hire from fly-by-night trucking schools, those drivers you should be worried as fuck over. Here in Ontario, the OTA(Ontario Trucking Association) has been pushing the Liberal Government(both Wynne and McGuinty) to shut down the fly-by-night schools for nearly 8 years at this point. Looks like *something* might finally be happening, after one of the wiped out a family on the 400 a month or so back at 140km/h(100km/h posted 86mph/62mph). And that's with mandatory regulators on the trucks already in law so they can't drive over 105km/h(65mph).
California - which accounts for many of Tesla's preorders - isn't "most places" and requires breaks for truck drivers. Now, since you were so busy being an ignorant, arrogant know-it-all that you skipped over the point on range-wankery (most likely on purpose) I'll copy and paste:
Except the part where Telsa isn't pushing just for California. So I'll bring you up to speed that EV's have serious problems hauling "different types" of cargo as well. For example, they're much better at liquid freight with regenerative braking but terrible for standard run of the mill durable goods.
If you're going to be a complete idiot, you can do so on your own time. Or you can think really, really, really hard why you see all those jugs of piss on the side of the road, or why when some company hires a bunch of 3rd world guys to drive their trucks, they suddenly cut a hole in the floor and the mechanics refuse to work on them. Gee, I know I broke your little view on just what's actually happening in that industry didn't I.
Bootlicker, you know Carter was a
Don't worry shit for brains. Everyone knows that Dalton McGuinty was a left winger. Party labels have an awful lot to do with how "left or right" someone is and the policies that they push, or used to push. You know like how left-leaning generally was for worker rights, but it seems that right-leaning is taking worker rights more seriously, while left-leaning is pushing the opposite. Not always true of course in every case, but far more then you'd thin.
Tesla has already shown that they would switch batteries in 90 seconds on the MS when ppl were screaming that it would take 30-60 minutes like the Europeans do.
It takes longer then 90 seconds to swap the 2.5T batteries used in lift trucks. On top of that, they must be sealed away from the driver of the vehicle and since it's a "work" vehicle there's secondary checks that must be done. And since the vehicle has been "fixed" the driver must also complete a secondary walk, and check the operation of the vehicle. The average check is between 15-30 minutes, just a FYI.
However, Musk has said that they will NOT be switching batteries. Why not? Because the average truck driver does less than 800 miles / 24 hour period, and MUST stop at least once during an 11 hour period, and be down for some 90 minutes.
Better check those laws, because in Ontario that's 12 hrs. Michigan too, OH, IN, IA, and on, and on and on and on.
However, it takes 30 minutes to charge it 400 MPC, and an 60 minutes for a full 500 miles. But if they start off with 450 MPC, then another 400 at required stop is 950 Miles which is more than what they are legally allowed to travel.
See above sentence, you have so many assumptions wrong on the current state of trucking it's scary. There's a hell of a lot of stuff that needs to be fixed, but you bet your ass you can run for 900mi in a 12 day and have zero downtime. Hell in some places, governments allow you to buy these as a "fine" to allow your drivers to work longer. You can even buy those fines to allow a 50hr work week and not require OT, at any period above 42hrs. And that exists in Canada and the US.
Imgur has a huge community of basically viral ad marketers, and rampant narcissism. It's basically the equivalent of neogaf in terms of commentary quality.
Maybe you should consider safer limits on working hours. In Europe the maximum is half that and includes mandatory breaks every few hours. That limit is based on the best available scientific evidence.
Maybe you can tell those so-called leftwing/progressive governments to do just that. It was left-leaning governments that allowed longer driving hours, but that doesn't seem to have had any effect on collisions. The number of truck/truck and truck/car collisions has been dropping the last 30 years, and it's literally safer now to be on the highway with 4x the amount of traffic. Comparatively speaking, accident rates are even lower then European countries.
So it seems there's something else going on with that, what it is? I have no idea. But I used to drive from southern ontario to indiana every weekend(around 700km), leaving on friday night and driving back on sunday morning for work. The biggest problem we used to have was with highway hypnosis especially in the 401 corridor between London and Tilburry, it was bad, really bad.
The batteries can go underground. Although that costs more, it doesn't cost so much more than it can't be done. Put them underneath stuff that big trucks won't be driving over, like the building.
In most places you can't put fuel tanks underground anymore because of environmental regulations. The same goes for battery storage. They have to be above ground by law in most places. The type of batteries that tesla uses requires a specialized vault, so you're not going to be putting those under the building either. If you need an example, go find a NPDC and you'll quickly find out why they put those batteries for lift trucks in special places incase they explode while charging.
Also, they will build new truck stops for these vehicles. You wouldn't retrofit in with the other ones. There's plenty of cheap land along interstates where they can be built, and since there's no fuel spillage risk they can be built in places where petrochemical fuel stations can't because of potential environmental impact.
Since in most places those truck stops are regulated by cities, counties, state or province? You're not going to have a new truck stop every 40 miles to cover all those trucks. Also see first part of my post, in most places storage for batteries must be above ground.
Which is easily taken care of if the driver takes their legally required breaks at a charging station.
You mean at the end of their shift? You can drive on the road non-stop for 10-12 hours in most places in north america, that's 100% legal. You're not even required to take 30 minutes off half-way through your shift if you want, you can just keep driving. You have no idea exactly what happens in that industry do you.
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crops like grapes and others must be harvested by hand.
20 years ago, you had to pick strawberries and blueberries by hand too. These days you don't. You don't even need to pick grapes by hand unless you're in the ice wine business, you can buy the equipment to automate most grape harvesting too. Brand new machines can be picked up for around $500k, used(2-3yrs old) on the market as low as $40k.
Well let's be honest. If things were like they were back in the 1980's and early 90's when I worked during the summer(and late fall for tobacco harvest) on a farm, you'd see more people doing it. Back then you were paid an hourly rate. Now you're paid based on weight that you pick. It was the state and provincial governments of the day that allowed it to happen because the big corporate farms started crying "but we can't pay them an actual wage..." so the laws were changed to weight. Then they cried "but people don't want to work for that little!" And the laws were changed again allowing them to import labor.
More like a double or triple ride. As you pointed out, there's no taxes being collected by gas. The electricity in the charging stations is "free" and I use that term loosely, because the actual cost of it is coming out of general taxes, or municipal taxes which have to offset that cost. There's also generally "transmission" taxes, and then taxes on the electricity itself which aren't being paid by people who are driving them.
If electric car owners had to pay the price for electricity when using those stations, it would quickly dry up. Especially in places like Ontario, where "peak"(8am-8pm) they'd be paying $0.18kWh plus transmission(probably $10-30) on top of the electricity price. Right now, that's being paid for out of general taxes.
Perhaps if your ads weren't so fucking obnoxious and intrusive.
Oh come now. Just because those sites want to inject malware, and don't give a fuck when it also drains your bank account and refuse to accept any responsibility when the ransomware also gets installed because they refuse to vet any ads isn't their fault.
You're just stealing from them or something. Really this is the type of stuff in-browser crypto mining should be for, visit the site knock out some CPU power, they get paid in whatever funds, and can cash it out. Now all you need to do is get the malware companies to stop flagging it as malware.
i meta-moderated your mom last night.
In soviet russia, your mom meta-moderates you straight back to the basement.
Even worse than that is when those people get mod points, and use them to create the echo chamber.
Have you meta-moderated lately? Or it could be you've managed to piss people off to the point that they simply don't care what you're saying, or your opinion is just complete shit. All and none can be true.
So, anywhere from 19 million to 53 million US jobs will NOT be able to be easily shifted. And US job training programs are just world renowned for.. yeah, can't even fake lie, our training programs are useless feel good projects.
That's not just the US, it's pretty much everywhere. Thing is if we see huge shifts in automation like that where large parts of society can't find work, you'll either have to expand the safety net or change how the economy itself works. Or, you can always go another route. With FB, Google, Uber and so on pushing minicome and so on, simply tax them at 60-75% to pay for it. I'll bet that said automation will never happen then.
Slightly to the topic of a living wage, wait for the $15/hr minimum wage to hit Ontario, Canada though. The very best minimum estimate is that the province is going to lose 80k jobs, the worst case is 400k. That's either a 0.8% unemployment jump or nearly 3%...oh yeah, that's gonna cause a lot of problems. Now on top of that PT work is the main job creator in Canada, especially in Ontario. Let's roll out some of the worse stuff, like a 0.25% increase in the mortgage rate, you're looking at 20% of people unable to pay within 60 days. 0.5% is 40% movements of 1% or more? 50-60% of all mortgages currently would be under in 90 days. And they're talking about a 2% increase in the next year.
A fine is probably appropriate (locking people up seems like overkill) as long as it is sufficiently large to make them take note. On the other hand there is a good argument for the fine being in proportion to the offence.
The problem we're seeing is that the fines don't reflect to the proportion of the offence in many cases. Either because the law doesn't allow it or because it's strictly limited by regulations, which is why you're hearing more clamor for locking people up over it. If there's even the possibility of someone being locked up over privacy violations? Well you're going to see a big push by companies to lobby for higher fines. But since government works at a snails pace, and are usually 20 years behind the time, I wouldn't expect anything before 2025 at the very earliest.
Shouldn't be a surprise. When you hold dominant market share in multiple areas, you're gonna get sued. In google's case, they're likely making that legal department even larger just in-case they get hit with antitrust laws, which seems to be in the wind on both sides of the pond.
Pretty much. A lot of what people go in for isn't the article itself, but the comments. Same thing with newspapers(letters to the editor), or online comments and so on. It's one of the reasons why talk radio is popular, the topic might elicit opinions but people would much rather discuss their opinions on something most of the time. The worst cases of this though, are when you get the ideological echo chambers. I'm not talking about format, or what have you. Rather, where people don't care about the context or even the facts of what's being said, rather they want self-reinforcement of an opinion even if it's wrong.
Hell I'm in Canada and my old '96 Saturn SW2 that finally gave up with a subframe failure after hitting a cumbling chunk of overpass a few years ago, would still get around 38-42mpg on most trips. When it was newerish back in '96/97 I'd once gotten 51mpg(460mi on 9US gallons oh the joy of filling the tank for $5 in Indianapolis no less), most of the time it was right around 40mpg(which was common for the SL/SW series), even when I drove cross-country from southern ontario through the US, through N.Dakota, to northern alberta I managed to get around 43mpg which was still amazing in 2010. Minus mountain driving of course, which really sucked down the performance right around 28mpg through Banff National park.
Got a problem though. The grid is already straining under the low number of electric vehicles on the road in several places, so that means utility upgrades and all the rest. What's that mean? Well it means higher electricity prices to offset those upgrades.
Let me translate: "I posted child porn and calls for Jews to be exterminated and subreddits banned me!"
What can get you banned from /r/politics: "Trump is doing okay." What can get you banned from /r/europe: "Migrants are causing a surge of crime" - including crime statistics with country of origin. What get's you banned from /r/canadianpolitics: "illegals surging into Canada are taking resources from Canadians already struggling."
Sure is a lot of CP and calling for "jews to be exterminated" are you sure you're not just projecting? You know like all those left-wing feminst progressives that claimed gamergate was doing something, but instead down the road they were raping women, calling in bomb threats to synagogues, operating fake porn modeling agencies, and so on. Yeah...tough luck on that one I guess.
No, there's likely something else going on, adland has a pretty good article on it.
Just in case, I think the word you were looking for is 'seppuku'.
I am honestly asking why should this person be prohibited from purchasing the company? If your argument is based on morality then perhaps you should reexamine the situation.
They likely believe he shouldn't be able to buy them because Thiel isn't left wing therefor can't keep that same level of muckracking that they'd been doing for years. It was only a matter of time before Gawker managed to commit suduko anyway.
The writing was already on the wall for that, the entire buy-up by univision was funny though, especially when all the reporters who say they're bloggers, then claim they're reporters when convenient started quitting because univision required actual ethical standards out of them. And now in this whole situation univision is trying to sell off chunks of what they bought from Gawker because they're money losers.
With the current state of the ad market, and adpocolypse 2.0 now on the horizon? If Thiel is offering money, they'd better get in a head of this ad crash. If you didn't hear anything on it, even more companies are pulling ads from youtube, google, adwords, and other associated stuff. Why? Because their ads were appearing next to the apparent pedofarming videos that were targeted at children. See the elsagate stuff if you really want to know, fair warning, it's massively fucked up. Or you can watch/listen this vid from mundanematt bout 12mins long.
You mean it's legal to shoot at random truckers? Or is reckless endangerment something only truckers get a pass on?
You should go drive for a year, or become friends with a trucker. Because the industry is currently a shitshow, it got worse in the US under Obama. Regs were pushed down hard, because US trucking companies need more drivers, more trucks on the road and so on. It's going to get far worse before it gets better as well, and most of the really big problems come from fly-by-night schools and shady companies that use them to hire directly and are basically imported people from poor countries where driving regulations really don't exist.
Are you saying those regulations don't apply?
No. Because they're effectively guidelines because every state(and every province) has their own effective trucking guidelines. Don't forget this part: Does not apply to drivers using either of the short-haul exceptions in 395.1(e). [49 CFR 397.5 mandatory âoein attendanceâ time may be included in break if no other duties performed.
You can get around mandatory breaks by filing "long haul" and making into multiple "short hauls" as well. It's shady as fuck, and it happens a lot, there was a big and I do mean big discussion on it in several trucking mags a half year back, and demands from trucker associations and unions to get it changed. That's not even touching on the companies that hire from fly-by-night trucking schools, those drivers you should be worried as fuck over. Here in Ontario, the OTA(Ontario Trucking Association) has been pushing the Liberal Government(both Wynne and McGuinty) to shut down the fly-by-night schools for nearly 8 years at this point. Looks like *something* might finally be happening, after one of the wiped out a family on the 400 a month or so back at 140km/h(100km/h posted 86mph/62mph). And that's with mandatory regulators on the trucks already in law so they can't drive over 105km/h(65mph).
California - which accounts for many of Tesla's preorders - isn't "most places" and requires breaks for truck drivers. Now, since you were so busy being an ignorant, arrogant know-it-all that you skipped over the point on range-wankery (most likely on purpose) I'll copy and paste:
Except the part where Telsa isn't pushing just for California. So I'll bring you up to speed that EV's have serious problems hauling "different types" of cargo as well. For example, they're much better at liquid freight with regenerative braking but terrible for standard run of the mill durable goods.
If you're going to be a complete idiot, you can do so on your own time. Or you can think really, really, really hard why you see all those jugs of piss on the side of the road, or why when some company hires a bunch of 3rd world guys to drive their trucks, they suddenly cut a hole in the floor and the mechanics refuse to work on them. Gee, I know I broke your little view on just what's actually happening in that industry didn't I.
Bootlicker, you know Carter was a
Don't worry shit for brains. Everyone knows that Dalton McGuinty was a left winger. Party labels have an awful lot to do with how "left or right" someone is and the policies that they push, or used to push. You know like how left-leaning generally was for worker rights, but it seems that right-leaning is taking worker rights more seriously, while left-leaning is pushing the opposite. Not always true of course in every case, but far more then you'd thin.
Tesla has already shown that they would switch batteries in 90 seconds on the MS when ppl were screaming that it would take 30-60 minutes like the Europeans do.
It takes longer then 90 seconds to swap the 2.5T batteries used in lift trucks. On top of that, they must be sealed away from the driver of the vehicle and since it's a "work" vehicle there's secondary checks that must be done. And since the vehicle has been "fixed" the driver must also complete a secondary walk, and check the operation of the vehicle. The average check is between 15-30 minutes, just a FYI.
However, Musk has said that they will NOT be switching batteries. Why not? Because the average truck driver does less than 800 miles / 24 hour period, and MUST stop at least once during an 11 hour period, and be down for some 90 minutes.
Better check those laws, because in Ontario that's 12 hrs. Michigan too, OH, IN, IA, and on, and on and on and on.
However, it takes 30 minutes to charge it 400 MPC, and an 60 minutes for a full 500 miles. But if they start off with 450 MPC, then another 400 at required stop is 950 Miles which is more than what they are legally allowed to travel.
See above sentence, you have so many assumptions wrong on the current state of trucking it's scary. There's a hell of a lot of stuff that needs to be fixed, but you bet your ass you can run for 900mi in a 12 day and have zero downtime. Hell in some places, governments allow you to buy these as a "fine" to allow your drivers to work longer. You can even buy those fines to allow a 50hr work week and not require OT, at any period above 42hrs. And that exists in Canada and the US.
I can't wait to see your next freakout when you discover he's gonna be elected for a 2nd term.
Imgur has a huge community of basically viral ad marketers, and rampant narcissism. It's basically the equivalent of neogaf in terms of commentary quality.
Maybe you should consider safer limits on working hours. In Europe the maximum is half that and includes mandatory breaks every few hours. That limit is based on the best available scientific evidence.
Maybe you can tell those so-called leftwing/progressive governments to do just that. It was left-leaning governments that allowed longer driving hours, but that doesn't seem to have had any effect on collisions. The number of truck/truck and truck/car collisions has been dropping the last 30 years, and it's literally safer now to be on the highway with 4x the amount of traffic. Comparatively speaking, accident rates are even lower then European countries.
So it seems there's something else going on with that, what it is? I have no idea. But I used to drive from southern ontario to indiana every weekend(around 700km), leaving on friday night and driving back on sunday morning for work. The biggest problem we used to have was with highway hypnosis especially in the 401 corridor between London and Tilburry, it was bad, really bad.
The batteries can go underground. Although that costs more, it doesn't cost so much more than it can't be done. Put them underneath stuff that big trucks won't be driving over, like the building.
In most places you can't put fuel tanks underground anymore because of environmental regulations. The same goes for battery storage. They have to be above ground by law in most places. The type of batteries that tesla uses requires a specialized vault, so you're not going to be putting those under the building either. If you need an example, go find a NPDC and you'll quickly find out why they put those batteries for lift trucks in special places incase they explode while charging.
Also, they will build new truck stops for these vehicles. You wouldn't retrofit in with the other ones. There's plenty of cheap land along interstates where they can be built, and since there's no fuel spillage risk they can be built in places where petrochemical fuel stations can't because of potential environmental impact.
Since in most places those truck stops are regulated by cities, counties, state or province? You're not going to have a new truck stop every 40 miles to cover all those trucks. Also see first part of my post, in most places storage for batteries must be above ground.
Which is easily taken care of if the driver takes their legally required breaks at a charging station.
You mean at the end of their shift? You can drive on the road non-stop for 10-12 hours in most places in north america, that's 100% legal. You're not even required to take 30 minutes off half-way through your shift if you want, you can just keep driving. You have no idea exactly what happens in that industry do you.