![]() ![]() We do a lot more than just hold a steering wheel. Business writers excitedly write about how this “cost-saving” technology lies just around the corner, only briefly pausing to consider the social crisis that would be created by laying off so many workers.Īs a truck driver myself, I know that so much of what we do is far too complicated to be replaced by technology any time soon. ![]() These days most talk about truckers centers on self-driving vehicles and the prospect that more than three million professional drivers will be replaced by robots. It’s also no longer synonymous with “Teamster” or even seen as a desirable job. Truck drivers seem to have re-entered the public consciousness in 2017-but today our understanding of the occupation is far from the freewheeling “cowboy of the highway” image of the 1970s. ![]()
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