You now who are under appreciated. Truck drivers! They provide essential services to industries.
I agree, they are they pulse of the industry, if all of them banded together and decided NOT to work, society would grind to a halt.
I was surprised to learn that traffic drivers are also responsible for inspecting their cars for issues, So they work double duty as a mechanic too!
They often have to choose their routes too and have to work for 18 hours at a time, it takes a hardened individual to do that.
I think they deserve better working hours. We force them to work more than 8 hours a day. often 11 hours every day for their routes.
Absolutely, automated trucks will be great, but it will be a while before they will work 100% and even then, who will fix them? Leave it to the pro truckers.
Trucks require a certain license to operate. Can we automate that for commercial trucks?
Absolutely, there is a company called Nicola that is working on unmanned autonomous semis.
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