Does Technology help or hurt trucking industy?

in my past exp, the easier your job becomes, the less it pays. My prev job field used to be a skilled trade with specialized equipment and processes that took a long time to master. Technology made it so that most anyone could be proficient in about 6-12 months, or much less if you already have a background in something similar.

There's no doubt that GPS makes driving easier. Granted, it can be a double edged sword if you put common sense on the shelf and go ahead and try to cross that 100 year old covered bridge with a 10 ft clearance and 4k wt limit. But IMO, overall there would be far more mistakes made without GPS.

I think we've all driven a car interstate before GPS, so even if we didn't get lost or miss an exit while driving a truck back then, we've done it in a car ,, and we have a general idea of what that would have been like in a truck.

all in all, technology makes things easier and requires less skill to perform the same task. Less skill means workers are easier to replace. Easier to replace means less money. There are exceptions, but in most cases you'll need to move up on the food chain to benefit financially from tech.