Keep your head in the sand

[Boywondr]

20 years is a long time. 20 years ago it took me 12 hours to download 2-3 songs on a computer. Now I can download an entire album on my phone in 5 minutes.

My guess is in 10 years you’ll start to see a large decline in new hires. They’ll mostly be replaced with tech. In 20 years a large portion of OTR runs will be made by driverless trucks.

As a 20 year old looking into truck driving as a career you’ve gotta think is this gonna be here in 30+ years or am I gonna be 45 looking to start a new career

No doubt. I'd say in 20 yrs existing part time supes will have learned how to train a loader.

 

[Boywondr]

True. I imagine you’d just have to put a slow vehicle in front of it and slow down to a stop.

That works.

 

[burrheadd]

20 years is a long time. 20 years ago it took me 12 hours to download 2-3 songs on a computer. Now I can download an entire album on my phone in 5 minutes.

My guess is in 10 years you’ll start to see a large decline in new hires. They’ll mostly be replaced with tech. In 20 years a large portion of OTR runs will be made by driverless trucks.

As a 20 year old looking into truck driving as a career you’ve gotta think is this gonna be here in 30+ years or am I gonna be 45 looking to start a new career

Who downloads music anymore

You can stream any song ever created

 

[BrownSnowFlake]

And we can't even get pens in my center.

We ran out of packing tape during the last end-of-quarter ordering freeze

 

[bbsam]

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Haven’t you driven a accident avoidance vehicle?

Pretty annoying really.

 

[ManInBrown]

Theres no way, the government allows the human truck driving industry to become extinct. Maybe the next generation wont have the option to be truck drivers, but no one who is a truck driver now is losing their job to automation. The government will put a cap on how much automation, companies can have. There arent going to stand by and watch millions of people lose their jobs. Maybe in the future they might say, this job isnt availabe anymore. Train for something else. I could see that happening for sure.

 

[oldngray]

Who downloads music anymore

You can stream any song ever created

When you can easily store hundreds of hours of music on a USB stick you really don't need to stream.

 

[bbsam]

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[BrownSnowFlake]

10 - 15 years ago the lamestream media said we’d all be driving electric cars by now to stop global warming.

Pulled over onto the turnpike rest stop this summer on the way to the beach. The EV charger was ripped out. Nothing left but a piece of conduit with some nutted-off wires sticking out of the concrete.

This too shall pass.

 

[oldngray]

 

[Wally]

20 years is a long time.

Companies aren’t afraid to spend money when given the chance to eliminate employees.

And maybe in 20 years there are still a few drivers but they certainly won’t be hiring new ones. They’ll be replaced as they retire with tech

One major accident and the politicians will shut it down.

 

[upschuck]

One major accident and the politicians will shut it down.

Took 2 to shut the MAX down.

 

[Wally]

Took 2 to shut the MAX down.

Ok two, maybe one if it involves a illegal alien or minority?

 

[Johney]

Beautiful union spirit.

I pay my dues so friend off.

 

[bbsam]

I pay my dues so friend off.

You pay your dues so friend your union brothers.

 

[Johney]

You pay your dues so friend your union brothers.

I'm a blade of grass in a great big field. I seriously doubt I'd make a difference either way. The union will do as it pleases regardless of what I think or it's brothers. So again, it will not impact me so why should I care.

 

[bbsam]

I'm a blade of grass in a great big field. I seriously doubt I'd make a difference either way. The union will do as it pleases regardless of what I think or it's brothers. So again, it will not impact me so why should I care.

You said “” to me. I assure you that what you do friend’s them far more than me.

 

[Indecisi0n]

I'm a blade of grass in a great big field..

I never knew you were a poet .

 

[Johney]

You said “” to me. I assure you that what you do friend’s them far more than me.

I doubt it.

I never knew you were a poet .

There's a lot you don't know about me.

 

[over9five]

I never knew you were a poet .

"I'm a leaf on the wind. Watch how I soar"