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Truckers is a big group of Trump supporters, this will become an election issue.
by loandbehold 3y ago
Truckers is a big group of Trump supporters, this will become an election issue.
- linkjuice4all 3y agoWell…trucking offers an opportunity (either as drivers or owner/operators) to people in rural areas that otherwise don’t have any great way to make money (read: rural people in formerly prosperous areas). While it’s not exactly a low skill job - it’s pretty easy to start making serious money (relatively speaking) for someone that can get a CDL. Obviously these jobs won’t disappear overnight but over-the-road trucking seems like the low hanging fruit for automation and happens to be a lucrative business for the current human drivers.
- 1letterunixname 3y agoTrucking is the single biggest career in the US. Threatening that would be political suicide.
- gwill 3y agowhat do you mean by "biggest career"?
- dboreham 3y agoProbably: participants multiplied by average gross income?
- macintux 3y agoNot the person you’re replying to, but if you add light and heavy trucks it looks like the only comparable career by number of employees is home health care. https://www.bls.gov/emp/tables/occupations-most-job-growth.htm https://www.bls.gov/emp/tables/occupations-most-job-growth.h...
- mattmaroon 3y agoThat table is showing top occupations by growth, not by total amount, so it could leave out large but not growing occupations. There are more teachers than truckers (if my quick lazy google is correct) for instance, but it isn’t on that table.
- rascul 3y agoMaybe this is a better one https://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaat11b.htm https://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaat11b.htm