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TRUCKING ANALYSIS * USA: About autonomous trucks & driverless commercial vehicles
* California - Driverless trucking will save millions, cost millions of jobs
# Labor represents 75% of the cost of trucking
# Driverless trucks could operate nearly 24 hours a day while human drivers are limited to 11 hours per day by law
# There are 1.6 million long-haul truck drivers in the USA
# Driverless trucks can operate at optimal speed to create fuel efficiencies while truck drivers can’t
# Driverless trucks can move in convoys and save even more fuel costs
# Nearly 70% of all the freight tonnage moved in the USA goes on trucks. Without the industry and our truck drivers, the economy would come to a standstill. To move 9.2 billion tons of freight annually requires nearly 3 million heavy-duty Class 8 trucks and over 3 million truck drivers. Simply – without trucks, America stops.
... The only thing preventing driverless trucks from becoming a reality are regulatory hurdles and opposition from truck drivers. Trucking is a $700 billion industry to be disrupted and the jobs lost from driverless trucking are estimated to be around 1% of the U.S. workforce. In fact, truck driving is the most common job in 29 states... While there will be strong opposition against driverless trucking at first, it seems inevitable that a technology which is more efficient, costs less, and is safer, will eventually be adopted. The recent successful demonstration of the self-driving truck shows that we can’t afford to put off the conversation on how we’re going to adapt to this new reality... Today’s truckers, though, don’t seem too concerned. Teamsters spokesperson Galen Munroe says that for now, concerns around self-driving trucks and labor “are just too far in the future to speculate” ... He’s likely right, but even so, brushing up on some coding skills to go with that commercial driver’s license is probably a good idea...
(Photo: A trucker on the road with an "Inspiration truck", not driving the vehicle) -- San Mateo, CAL, USA - Nanalyze - April 27, 2016
Labels: autonomous trucks, driverless trucks, trucking industry analysis USA
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