Changing Lanes

Changing Lanes

The Mysterious and Perpetual Shortage of Truck Drivers

…and how driving automation can solve it

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Andrew Miller
Sep 23, 2025
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North America has been suffering from a shortage of truck drivers… for decades, apparently.

Here is Werner Enterprises complaining in 1998 that “there have been shortages of drivers in the trucking industry”, that they anticipate that “the competition for qualified drivers will continue to be high”. Here is TruckingInfo.com’s retrospective of its coverag…

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