[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.