Why do I need experience in the trucking business in order to see the writing on the wall?

Drivers cost money, and fuel costs money. That's all you need to understand to accept the fact that those things will be eliminated.

Machines build nearly everything we buy. Machines sweep our floors. Machines do so many things for us that you apparently don't even realize, and they're doing more and more every day.

When you buy something from Amazon, more than likely a machine collected the raw material to make it with very little human intervention, a machine built it, packed it, loaded it, shipped it, received it, sorted it at the dist center, took your order, processed your payment, and then loaded it again for shipment. Counting the UPS man, maybe half a dozen people in the world ever physically handled your product as it made its way from halfway around the world to your door. Not only is that fricking amazing, but there are people working night and day to make the human involvement even less.

Truck drivers need to start working on developing new skills TODAY. Otherwise we are going to have some serious unemployment problems in the coming decades.

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Posted by Darth_Vader

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Posted on 9/8/17 at 12:59 pm to Korkstand

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Why do I need experience in the trucking business in order to see the writing on the wall?

Drivers cost money, and fuel costs money. That's all you need to understand to accept the fact that those things will be eliminated.

Machines build nearly everything we buy. Machines sweep our floors. Machines do so many things for us that you apparently don't even realize, and they're doing more and more every day.

When you buy something from Amazon, more than likely a machine collected the raw material to make it with very little human intervention, a machine built it, packed it, loaded it, shipped it, received it, sorted it at the dist center, took your order, processed your payment, and then loaded it again for shipment. Counting the UPS man, maybe half a dozen people in the world ever physically handled your product as it made its way from halfway around the world to your door. Not only is that fricking amazing, but there are people working night and day to make the human involvement even less.

Truck drivers need to start working on developing new skills TODAY. Otherwise we are going to have some serious unemployment problems in the coming decades.

What's funny is you're too ignorant to even realize how ignorant you really are.