Oh man. Congratulations, you are one of today's lucky 10,000
The "truck" is a completely separate entity from the "trailer".
The truck has the motor and fuel/batteries, driver or driverless systems, all that stuff. It provides the energy and does all the work to pull the trailer. It's a glorified tractor and the trailer is just an attachment.
The trailer is where the cargo goes, sand in this case. Trailers follow a pretty standard design and can be hauled by any compatible truck. They are not as a general rule tied to a specific truck. The PlusAI trucks could pull their own trailers or any other trailers from any other business.
These trailers that were stolen had nothing to do with "AI" other than holding a dummy load of sand for testing the PlusAI trucks. They were just regular trailers filled with sand that were coupled up to some thieves truck and driven away in the night. The article is very clear they were not even coupled to PlusAI trucks when stolen, the thieves just cut the locks off the trailer couplings so they could haul them away.
And to sum all that up. The trailers were stolen, not the trucks.
They are not as a general rule tied to a specific truck.
...did you really just pretend that I didn't know this so that you could have an excuse to write extra paragraphs? That's some masochistic self-aggrandizement you've got going on.
The article is very clear they were not even coupled to PlusAI trucks when stolen...
Okay, so you literally didn't even read the quote, right?
The locks on the trailers’ glad hands — the couplings that link the air brakes to the truck — appeared to have been forced off, the company said.
It literally says that the couplings linking the trailer to the truck were forced off. How much clearer can it be?
Shit man, you're the confused netizen who asked me to explain what a truck trailer is. I'm not self-aggrandising, though I am apparently arguing with a pigeon.
Anyway. These are the glad hand locks that were cut, this seems to be where you've come all unstuck. They lock the airline coupling on detached trailers to prevent them being attached to an unauthorised truck.
And I'll direct you back to the sentence after the one you keep quoting, the trucks were not with the trailers:
The PlusAI cabs that normally pull the test trailers were parked elsewhere on the property and appeared untouched.
I did explain it. Multiple times, even specifically once I clearly understood the part you got stuck on. I even sent you a link with a whole article about glad hand locks for you to digest.
Look I'll boil it down for you.
Glad hand locks can't be cut off on a coupled trailer because you cannot fully couple a trailer with the locks in place.
The locks are used to immobilise a detached trailer by blocking off the airline coupling. Air is required to release the the brakes.
That whole bit of the article you keep quoting is the bit that says the trailers were uncoupled and parked away from the trucks.
It's too bad you had to put in all that arrogant self-aggrandizing bullshit before you were willing to treat me like an equal.
Next time you accost a stranger in public, cut to the heart of the matter and actually explain things before you sarcastically copypaste the XKCD whose message you don't believe in, about how it's good to explain things to people who don't know them.
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u/punosauruswrecked 5h ago edited 5h ago
Oh man. Congratulations, you are one of today's lucky 10,000
The "truck" is a completely separate entity from the "trailer".
The truck has the motor and fuel/batteries, driver or driverless systems, all that stuff. It provides the energy and does all the work to pull the trailer. It's a glorified tractor and the trailer is just an attachment.
The trailer is where the cargo goes, sand in this case. Trailers follow a pretty standard design and can be hauled by any compatible truck. They are not as a general rule tied to a specific truck. The PlusAI trucks could pull their own trailers or any other trailers from any other business.
These trailers that were stolen had nothing to do with "AI" other than holding a dummy load of sand for testing the PlusAI trucks. They were just regular trailers filled with sand that were coupled up to some thieves truck and driven away in the night. The article is very clear they were not even coupled to PlusAI trucks when stolen, the thieves just cut the locks off the trailer couplings so they could haul them away.
And to sum all that up. The trailers were stolen, not the trucks.