> If you think about it, taxi cab drivers barely need any qualifications to drive a cab. Truckers need more... Well, part of those rules and regulations do thi

> If you think about it, taxi cab drivers barely need any qualifications to drive a cab. Truckers need more... Well, part of those rules and regulations do things like specifically limit how much they can drive per day (11 hours is the limit, I believe). There's also super high turn over in the trucking industry and they've had driver shortages fairly regularly. A lot of these rules are about protecting the human driver from themselves (fatigue, misbehavior etc). When I think about the problem it seems that regular, predictable freight movement from port to warehouse would be a logical place to start because a) it's easier and b) the labor market for drivers is so severely distorted right now. Edit: It's 11 hours but I'm remembering there's other restrictions too, like limits on consecutive blocks of 11-hour driving without rest. I'll look it up later.