Some of it will just be absorbed as the cost of doing business. Some, it may cheaper to hire security at points to help assist trucks in bypassing more dangerous areas.
I honestly think there will never be a time when trucks are free of humans. I think AI will help truckers get by the more dangerous parts of their job, like when they can see ten miles out of clear road. That creates a risk of inattention and drowsiness due to nothing happening. That’s where I see AI stepping in. I can’t AI allowing no drivers in our lifetimes, because the loss of a truck by itself is going to be upwards of a $200,000 hit.
But a big part of their point of developing such tech in the first place is reduction of overhead. They will be just swapping one type of overhead headache for another. No savings goal met. And as this nation becomes more dystopian the risk & liability for such a venture becomes sky high, even "unsustainable" as they like to say. Towards the end of Obuzzard's 2nd term I remember how desperate & cold some people were getting, to the point where we had to organize zone security routines against organized raiders that would hit us day and night. And economic circumstances are lining up to be worse than what his regime produced, something that I'm not looking forward to in the least.