COMMERCIAL CARRIER JOURNAL: “Vehicle Automation To Dramatically Change Trucking Landscape In The Coming Decades, Forecaster Says”

The trucking industry is on the precipice of 10 to 20 years of change unlike it’s ever experienced, says transportation economist Noël Perry, and carriers who want to survive these changes must be prepared for them, he said. “The last major change we had was deregulation,” he said. “And it had only a fraction of the power of this one. It eliminated almost all of the carriers in business at the time. A few came through, but not many. This change is even larger.”