I’m for truckers getting all they can, within reason. But in case nobody’s noticed, a few trucking outfits are busting their buns to get rolling with autonomous self-driving trucks. Price yourself out of the market and you push even more companies to go driverless. Just thinking about repercussions.
Trucking didn't price themselves out. They just didn't equip themselves to handle loads that are lesser in gross weight. Nature abhors a vacuum.
And don't get me started on hot shot drivers. The hot shots are truckers that still want to keep smoking marijuana. They have to abide by DOT regs....but they don't get tested.
Unless they can put AI enough into those rigs to think creatively when confronting obstructions, changes in the roads including contending with split second detours put up due to flooding or when connections to gps get interfered with, the public will never accept trucks without minders in them who can at least override manually if need be.