I drive a truck. Owner/operator for 35 years. I think I know a thing or two about this industry. The face of the American trucking industry has been transformed in the last 20 years. This fact is overwhelmingly true. The average truck driver today cannot replace a headlight in his truck. The trucks today have automatic transmissions which aren’t nearly as efficient, more cost-effective, because the average truck driver cannot double clutch the transmission. The truckstop restaurants have closed because immigrant truck drivers seldom get out of their trucks to eat or shower. Now, tell me once again how stupid I am and how ignorantI am about some thing I’ve lived for the last 35 years.
I never wrote that you are stupid or ignorant. So that’s a straw man argument. I also don’t dispute that the demographics of truck drivers have changed over the last several decades. As have the demographics of the entire country. I simply do not believe the contention that the majority of a American truckers are foreign immigrants who speak no English.
I will add that the phenomenon you describe is real and likely growing. Here’s an article:
https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-col1-sikh-truckers-20190627-htmlstory.html
So we’re not so much at odds as it might appear. In the future your description of the work force might be accurate. Of course in the future there may not be any drivers at all if the self driving vehicle development continues.