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Welding machine operators are a drop in the bucket compared with the biggest looming job shift on the horizon: truck drivers. It's the most commonly listed job
by JohnTHaller 10y ago
Welding machine operators are a drop in the bucket compared with the biggest looming job shift on the horizon: truck drivers. It's the most commonly listed job in 29 states and there are millions of them across the US. And most will be replaced by automated driving systems within the next couple decades. Yes, there will be service jobs within trucking, but that will be a small fraction of the 'routine' jobs that automation will replace.
- passthefist 10y agoDon't forget the jobs providing services to the people that drive the trucks. Many of those are going to be lost like those old rail and highway towns that built up and then bust when the popular routes changed.
- the8472 10y ago> truck drivers. It's the most commonly listed job in 29 states This has been brought up previously in HN discussions. It's an artifact of arbitrary binning choices.
- JohnTHaller 10y agoRegardless, there are still around 3 million of them. That's not a small number.