Where Have America’s Truck Drivers Gone?

Where Have America’s Truck Drivers Gone?
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - JUNE 18: A Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) truck sits parked on a street on June 18, 2018 in San Francisco, California. Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
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The internet doesn’t carry goods, only more and more orders for them. Self-driving trucks are a long way off. In the meantime, somebody has to haul freight and make deliveries.

So the U.S. economy needs more people like Branden Miller. But they’re getting hard to come by.