keep on truckin’

Millions of truck drivers create tens of millions of job. But there is a huge shortage of drivers according to The Wall Street Journal. And those jobs cannot be shipped overseas. I beg to differ.  Pilots fly drones halfway around the world.

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  Let ’em drive trucks.   truck-cockpit A clever guy in the shade of the Great Wall of China could be “driving” 18 wheelers with a little bit of technology adjustment.  He or she could sit in the “cab” of a truck instead of the “cockpit” of a plane. Problem.  How do you give a guy a ticket in Beijing when he’s driving past Las Vegas?

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Jaron Summers wrote dozens of primetime television and radio programs, including those for HBO, CBS, ACCESS TV and CBC. He conceived the TV and Film Institute of Canada. Funded by the University of Alberta and ITV, Jaron ran the Institute for 12 years, donating his services for a decade.

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