Although, methinks this guy is just making excuses to justify the eventuality of AI in trucking.
Just as the tech industry did to justify HR1’s.
Read the article and take it at face value.
What do you think the solution is, if the problem IS just as he describes it?
You suggest AI as a solution, but it won't be.
Don't look for AI Trucking in the next 5 years.
Part of it is that guys who get into trucking do so because they don't want an office job with all the office stuff that goes along with it. Then all the technology that they do have to deal with is pushed on them, so they don't want to go in any further than they absolutely need to, like hiring an IT guy or heaven forbid an IT department. Most of their custom software ends up being written in Access or Excel by some hotshot kid they had working on the loading dock two years ago.
Someday in the next five to ten years the big companies (Walmart, Amazon, UPS) they will get there. They're going to have autonomous trucks running point to point routes between distribution centers, particularly on open highway areas in the plains states. It will have to come from those places because of the initial costs in developing self-driving software and handling the legal labyrinth of getting permission to put those trucks on the road is immense, and only the big companies will have the infrastructure to support the planning software needed to link all of those logistics moves together.
Trucking companies will still have a need for drivers for years on out past this, but when they do start losing market share to the robots, they probably won't be in position to do anything about it but close up shop.