[zdean]

"I still think driving a truck as a profession will be a thing of the past within 20 years or so."

I hope so. Trucking is one of the toughest professions for a person to endure that I've ever seen. It destroys a person's body and mind...and you're lucky to end up making minimum wage when you account for how many hours they spend working.

[mc32]

And what job alternatives will you provide them, think specially about current long haul drivers, not future candidates you can discourage and divert to greener fields.

[eduren]

Economic assistance. Give them the resources to choose their new career path for themselves.

[mc32]

From whom, the govt? I don't trust that would happen (see rustbelt industries). These automation startups? What's their profit if they have to train the people they help get laid off/made redundant?

[eduren]

You asked a pretty important question (we agree that this isn't simple) and I replied with what I thought to be the best solution.

And yes, the government. The funny thing about a democracy is that if enough people want the govt. to provide something, it will.

[akira2501]

> and you're lucky to end up making minimum wage when you account for how many hours they spend working.

If you're driving fleet, that's correct; however, there are a large number of "Owner/Operators" out there and they do make significantly more than you'd expect. If you have a good freight contract and a logistical mind, an O+O can easily make around $125k/year.