Thanks for that.
That is what I envisioned when describing what I think will be the future of trucking.
Either that or they will not get good drivers and will end up with very expensive and dangerous robotic trucks.
It is interesting how people will sometimes spend many times for a solution to a problem what it would have cost to cure it using a known and proven cure.
The trucking industry is in danger of falling into that trap now.
Schnieder, JB Hunt, and a couple others have home terminals, But they do not have regional terminals like they should.
They insist on long haul and will NEVER get drivers because of the dispatchers who insist on getting the drivers out on the road and KEEPING them out for 5 weeks or longer.
Then they constantly have to baby sit rookie drivers that use GPS for directions. They end up in residential streets stuck in somebodys yard trying to turn around. Case in point..the el tram in Chicago..how many drivers ended up wedged under that thing trying to deliver.
Local drivers wouldnt have that problem in a transfer system. They know the routes and how to get around.