What jobs will disappear
In my opinion the job of a trucker will disappear in the future. In fact there are some reason why this could be. The first thing is that our technology level increases daily so in the future there will be computer controlled self driving trucks, which
are supervised by
maybe just one person who sits in a surveillance room and takes care about a lot of trucks via remote control. So a company just needs to pay for one guard instead of paying a whole group of truckers, what highly increases the economy what is a very important point, since the very big business competition between the different forwarding agencies requires a high productivity with low costs. Machines are believed to be safer because they always make the right decisions, so human errors are history,
for example a driver who drives the whole night without sleep will get in danger to f
all asleep momentarily and
a scenario like this can have serious consequences like a severe car accident. The next point is that
it will be possible to program these machines, so that they
can drive with maybe just a meter gap
with a simultaneously very high speed caused
by the
ability of the?(hier vielleicht eine abwechslung zu the) trucks can communicate
among each other and always know what’s happening before and behind them. This fact causes, that all trucks react exactly at the same time and crashes get prevented, even with this very little safety distance. So it’s just like a train with the simple difference that this „train“ drive
s on the street so there are
a lot more ways to drive to the destination. The “truck trains” will be able to drive twenty-four hours on seven days a week which increases the productivity immensely. These programs will be
capable to minimize the congestions
caused by trucks tremendously.
Another reason for the disappearing of the truckers is the shortage of the oil recourses of our earth; it is getting to be even more expensive to drive a car or a truck with such a huge amount of wastage and now no one knows when alternative fuels are ready for trucks
, so its possible that the most freight traffic gets relocated to railroads, because they can be powered by electricity.
My last point is, that Trucker is a very low paid job with bad conditions they drive five or six days per week and have just few days free time to spend time with families and friends so the incentive to become one is getting smaller and smaller.
So therefore
I think, that the job of a trucker will disappear maybe not in the near future but it will happen.
