The trucking industry is worth hundreds of billions of dollars per year. Uber is going after this market with Uber Freight, an online platform that matches truckers with shippers looking to move cargo from one place to another.
In 2018, about 3.5 million people in the United States were employed as truck drivers. With the explosion of Amazon and other e-commerce companies, the demand for truck drivers has been outpacing supply. In 2018, the United States trucking industry was short over 60,000 drivers. If the trend holds, experts predict there could be a 160,000 driver shortage by 2028.
Morning Jolt: Fry Dylann Roof
This is because a lot of self-identified death penalty opponents aren’t really full-spectrum death penalty opponents.
.. John Ekdahl set off an amusing storm on Twitter by noting that the three best-selling vehicles in the United States are pick-up trucks and asking journalists the seemingly anodyne question of whether they personally know anybody who owns one.
The responses were predictable: The sort of smug progressives who are proud of their smugness scoffed that pick-ups, pollution-belching penis-supplements for toothless red-state Bubbas, are found mainly in the sort of communities where they’d never deign to set foot
.. We’ve established that the world is immensely dangerous to Americans at the close of Obama’s presidency.
So now the Trump administration wants to… shrink the intelligence community?
.. Hey, it’s not like something bad happened when we cut the intelligence budget in the 1990s under Bill Clinton, right?
This is the sort of move that doesn’t just inspire cheering at the headquarters of the Russian intelligence apparatus, or ISIS’s headquarters in Raqqa. This will have those guys doing the wave.