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kleinbl00 · 2378 days ago · link · · parent · post: End of the Road: Will automation put an end to the American Trucker?
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.