re: Truck Drivers Say They Won’t Deliver To Cities with Defunded Police Departments

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Another study on it mention that increase in efficiency would allow companies to pay every truck driver $45,000 a year to stay home and still net them billions in increased profit. Testing has already been going on for decades. Scale is an issue but Goldman-Sachs recently put out a report that the industry will see about 300,000 job losses per year due to automation in the very near future. There are about 3.5 million trucking jobs in the US. At a steady scale, that is 12 years (clearly it won’t be steady as long haul will probably develop quickly and then short route/urban transit will take more time). Nevertheless, having 500,000-1,000,000 jobs lost in an industry that, up to this point, was incredibly consistent, is a big deal economically. Hence why I said way back that conservatives will have to adjust their view of economic policy. It won’t only affect trucking, but trucking will the earliest and hardest hit.

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So, how many people who did this study, know anything about the trucking business? How many of them have ever driven OTR, or owned OTR trucks?
I own trucks, I pay drivers. It would be great if I could just buy trucks and get rid of the drivers, but it will never happen. There are too many reasons why it can't happen, to even tell you. I could give you a list of all the reasons why it can't work, but a new reason will present itself to me Sunday night, that I never imagined before. That's the reality of trucking.