These authors found that the employment loss among U.S. truck drivers will be significantly less than the 2-3 million reported by some media accounts. They found that three factors attributed to the inflation of this report:
- The count of truck drivers is increased due to a misunderstanding of its occupational classification used in federal statistics
- Truck drivers do more than drive and these non-driving tasks will continue to be in demand
- Some segments of trucking will be easier to automate than others
