Will anyone employ me? Reckless in 2017 nothing since.

My 2cents, sounds ####y. I've seen attachments to powered industrialized equipment that befuddled many experienced workers ESPECIALLY in the food manufacturing industry. Superfluous see ChinaTowns and tscottmes EXCELLENT advice!

Well said!

It will happen, that's progress! Just not in our lifetimes (hopefully). Personally speaking in my old manufacturing industry we said things like:
Robots can't production weld
Batteries don't have the capacity and can't replace LP
Robot tuggers cant safely move product across complex and ever changing shop floors

All wrong.

 

@BernieOH - You must make the decision, but in my opinion, you're throwing away a good opportunity for a trucking career.
15 or 20 years from now, you'll see big rigs cruising down the highway with drivers driving them and you'll day dream "I wish I was doing that."

 

What job don’t they want to automate? Only thing constant is change. Not saying the if’s wrong but the when’s usually are.

 

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It seems as if you came here to espouse our driverless future and weren't seriously considering it as an occupation let alone taking other seasoned drivers (not me) advice.

As a rookie driver, fresh out of cdl learners school, I'm here for that advice you so cavalierly blow off.

GL OP

 

Carrier school advantage is you have a job after the school. Disadvantage you are "locked" into that company for a year lest you pay them back in cash for the training they provided.
Independent CDL school you are not locked into a company for a year so after you get some drive time if you do not like it you can move to another company. Independant school disadvantages you pay the cost or get student loans, grants etc., so may be cost prohibitive. A good school should have job placement assistance, but it is not guaranteed.
Only you know your situation and know what would work best for you. The ticket was over 5 years ago so it may prevent a few employers from hiring you but others will be just fine.

 

I didn't take offense, sad really to see you talk yourself out of it.
Several reasons vehicles will not be autonomous anytime soon.

#1 - Liability. Elon is walking a tight rope and settling many lawsuits out of court and with NDA's. The NHSTA has caught wind of it and is lobbying for more autonomous transparency. There are so many legal implications i'm not qualified to discuss. But trying to get lawyers to ever agree on anything? Good Luck.

#3 - Infrastructure. No one wants to pay for it and often times eminent domain is the only way to make it happen. The examples you provided of it working today are perfect case scenarios. Roads built/wired for autonomy.

#3 - At least in our country, poor internet saturation of 5g. Interconnected devices and A.I. will make autonomous transportation happen. Waymo has it figured out more than people realize and is easily Teslas only competition. Tesla has some decent mapping i'm sure but Google has been in the game much longer. We've been using Google Earth longer than Tesla has been a company.

At the very worse case scenario trucks are going to need an alert babysitter that actually knows how to drive. If no one gets into the occupation because the robots are seemingly winning then guess what happens to the pay scale $$$. It's already a hard enough job and the costs are easily passed on to the consumer.

I wish you well in your journey!

 

My daughter will die of old age before she will be replaced by a self driving truck.

Stop worrying about things that you don't need to be concerned about.

Come north if you are truly concerned, trucking here will always need drivers.

 

I have a reckless driving on my mvr and can’t seem too find a job