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What's with all the truck drivers? Truck drivers dominate the map for a few reasons.
- Driving a truck has been immune to two of the biggest trends affecting U.S. jobs: globalization and automation. A worker in China can't drive a truck in Ohio, and machines can't drive cars (yet).
- Regional specialization has declined. So jobs that are needed everywhere ? like truck drivers and schoolteachers ? have moved up the list of most-common jobs.
- The prominence of truck drivers is partly due to the way the government categorizes jobs. It lumps together all truck drivers and delivery people, creating a very large category. Other jobs are split more finely; for example, primary school teachers and secondary school teachers are in separate categories.
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Long haul will change and local delivery may become more computer assisted.
If we had a public works program to build lanes with barrier walls for long haul trucks on the Interstate road system we would accomplish creating new job and training opportunities. Along with that work we could build out a 100G fiber Internet underground backbone -- carriers could lease lines from the new Department of Communications and build out their own networks trunking to these lines.