Jay Sawyer of Glenview, IL Talks About His Observations of Trucking Industry

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Jay Sawyer of Glenview, IL Talks About His
Observations of Trucking Industry
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Jays Opinion on Truck-Driver Shortage

• Jay Sawyer of Glenview, IL has been following the
  trucking industry for quite some time now, trying
  to understand the reason behind massive
  truck-driver shortage.
• Even though it is an 80,000 job with the median
  trucker salary being 42,000, a lot of firms are
  still struggling to recruit new truck drivers.
• The reason, in Jays opinion is, the driver
  salaries are as much as 50 lower than what they
  were in the 1970s.

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The Future of Self-Driving Cars

• Jay is often asked if America's truck drivers are
  all going to be unemployed pretty soon as
  autonomous technology renders their jobs
  redundant.
• He is quite confident that self-driving trucks
  will become the norm as early as in the next
  decade.
• He feels that introduction of self-driving cars
  would phase out around 1.8 million truck-driving
  jobs and save the industry an estimated 300
  billion.

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Some Statistics around Truck Drivers

• Jay Sawyer of Glenview, IL believes that
  introduction of self-driving cars can be a
  massive issue for truck drivers.
• The federal government has estimated that there
  are 1.8 million heavy-duty truck drivers in the
  US, though the American Trucking Associations
  estimated there are as many as 3.5 million.
• The average driver is about 55 years of age,
  which basically leaves out the possibility for
  retraining.

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Benefits of Autonomous Vehicles

• Jay Sawyer of Glenview, IL feels autonomous
  vehicles would save the trucking industry
  billions and increase fuel efficiency.
• According to a Morgan Stanley report, labor
  savings alone would cut costs 70 billion per
  year, and productivity would be up 30 because
  driverless trucks would run 24/7.
• He wont be surprised if robots replace as many
  as 800 million workers by 2030 considering
  they've already displaced key blue-collar jobs
  across the US.

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Thank YouJay Sawyer, Glenview IL