There are always winners and losers, and those on the losing end need to be supported through the transition. If we save some huge amount of labor costs employ

There are always winners and losers, and those on the losing end need to be supported through the transition. If we save some huge amount of labor costs employing the truckers plus the medical costs (normally spent on the 4+ million seriously injured people each year) that frees up quite some money for trucker early retirement or job retraining, based on age. Especially since this shock is likely to occur faster than a lot of other transitions like in automation on farms, textiles, docks, mines, or factories... This is why it's really, really important to have an effective safety net for catching unemployed and re-training them in a technologically advanced society, as it's getting really difficult to predict where and how fast change will occur.