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> In addition, there will still be much need for humans to take care of the maintenance of the trucks and manipulation of the cargo over the next couple decades. So there will likely be a significant number of truckers still employed, perhaps with increased productivity.

There’s already an industry that performs these tasks so there’d be a small percentage of absorption of current truck drivers.

You also assume there’d be more trucks, but there’d likely be fewer, at least at first. Since a fully automated truck could operate substantially more hours than with a driver. Drivers have hours of service that restrict how much they drive per day and per week.

Also, on a macro scale automated trucks wouldn’t be adopted if they didn’t displace workers.