<story><title>I Am a Twenty Year Truck Driver, Part 2: How Truckers Are Paid</title><url>https://medium.com/@ryan79z28/i-am-a-twenty-year-truck-driver-part-2-how-truckers-are-paid-de86ea419f2f</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mortenjorck</author><text>&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt; This industry literally won’t even pay for chassis they desperately need (and chassis are really cheap compared to trucks), doesn’t want to pay its workers, but they are supposedly going to pay for millions of robot trucks&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Interesting perspective on autonomous freight. Even if self-driving trucks become &lt;i&gt;technologically&lt;/i&gt; viable in the coming years, their economic viability may still significantly trail that of personal autonomous vehicles.</text></comment>
<story><title>I Am a Twenty Year Truck Driver, Part 2: How Truckers Are Paid</title><url>https://medium.com/@ryan79z28/i-am-a-twenty-year-truck-driver-part-2-how-truckers-are-paid-de86ea419f2f</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>anonymousiam</author><text>A long time ago when I was in high school (late 1970&amp;#x27;s), I knew some kids whose father was a truck driver.  They were better off financially than my family (my dad was a high school teacher&amp;#x2F;councilor).  I asked one of them about it and learned that his dad earned twice as much as mine.  (My father had a Masters degree and 35 years of tenure.)&lt;p&gt;Times have certainly changed since then.  The trucking industry is now rife with exploitation.</text></comment>