From this ol' Cracked article that I remembered: Recent statistics are still at 90%. Yeah, when an industry has a higher turnover than burger flipping and three-week diploma mills and with much higher problems when people fuck up, I am also squarely in the camp of automating that. Maybe promoting the drivers to 'computer monitoring agents', drive vehicles 24/7 in shifts and make everyone happier."That means that, statistically speaking, every driver you see is both new to the job and about to quit."
I have interviewed or interacted with three truck drivers (above and beyond the dozen or so refugees on Lyft). They were all economic washouts with no career prospects elsewhere. The most successful of them purchased his own truck, and that worked for a while. The problem was, when you're competing against big firms who claw back their margins by treating their drivers inhumanely, your choice is to treat yourself inhumanely or go out of business. Which is what he did.