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What does automated trucking mean for truckers

by derrekl on 11/17/17, 3:13 PM with 1 comments

• by totalZero on 11/17/17, 3:24 PM

  The article doesn't touch on the idea that automated trucking can reduce costs and improve efficiencies, making ground-based shipping cheaper, in turn spurring more cargo shipment activity, and thus creating more operator jobs.

  >“It’s not just job loss,” Sam Loesche, a legislative representative for the Teamsters, told WIRED in September. “It’s also what happens to the working conditions of the person who remains in the cab. How do we protect the livelihood of the driver who may be pushed to operate on a 24-hour continual basis because the company is claiming he’s in the back of a cab?”

  I suppose it makes sense for them to push for shift limits, because fewer hours per day per operator, for the same number of man-hours required, means more jobs total. However, I personally think it might be interesting to have a moving apartment with a nice view of changing terrain.