A truck on Highway 101 last month in Larkspur, Calif. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) The future of trucking may tell us a lot about the future of work. It’s no secret that many Americans fear losing their jobs to automation. In a Pew Research Center poll last October, nearly three-quarters of respondents worried that “computers and robots could do most of the work currently done by humans.” And yet the job market seems to be sending the opposite message: With a low unemployment rate of 4.1 percent, many companies say they can’t find good workers.
Trucking symbolizes the contradiction. Trucking companies […]
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