The Hottest Industry In The Land

New technology is transforming trucking and bringing new players with new ideas into the industry. Photo: Mercedes-Benz 

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On Monday morning this week, MIT, one of the leading engineering schools on the planet, published its list of Breakthrough Technologies for 2017, with “Driverless Trucks” holding down the number one position.

At this point, if you’ve been in the trucking industry for longer than five years, it’s perfectly fine to sit back, look around in amazement and wonder just what in the hell is going on?

Trucking hasn’t been this hot a property since Burt Reynolds had real hair. At this point, mainstream media news stories concerning this industry – and the technological revolution it is either going through, or about to go through (depending on who you’re talking to) – are becoming a daily event.

Why is that?

The movement of goods has been a staple of civilization since humans figured out the fundamentals of trade. It goes without saying that a lot of history and technology has been fueled by the desire to move goods around the planet as efficiently as possible. A century ago, some early pioneers decided to put the internal combustion engine to work doing exactly that and, over time, the industry that we know and love today gradually took shape. And while this industry has never been as efficient and professional as it is today, it’s still not good enough.

That, in a nutshell, is what in the hell is going on.

We’ve been in the developing stages of an Internet-fueled global super economy for a decade or so now and it seems fair to say that we’re on the cusp of seeing that super economy go white-hot. The signs are everywhere:

The widening of the Panama Canal.Chinese efforts to build their own canal across Nicaragua.The ever-increasing demand for next-day, or now …Read the rest of this story

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