I edited it out because while I would certainly say that and mean it about yodude - based on what he's been posting, I realized other people who drive for a living don't need to see that, nor do I feel that way about them. You have this "guy on the internet"'s apology for the comment.
Trains are not cheaper for the same level of service - they are slower. If we were shipping things at the same speed in a train it would be more money than using trucks.
I do know quite a bit about shipping and logistics, I am not just making things up. Also I don't think all truck drivers will be replaced by automation - but some of them will - the ones with attitude problems.
Basically we won't have trucks driving themselves solo in 10 years, but we will have trucks that do most of the driving with a person who isn't required to be as qualified to be behind the wheel (so the companies can cheap out on your pay even more, or just get rid of you).
So, first off, newsflash for you. Trains are cheaper. So by your logic everyone should be shipping by them. Guess you've missed the points I've made earlier in this thread why that's not the case.
But hey, by all means, please continue to revel us all in your advice on topics you clearly know nothing about. How about aviation next..any thoughts there? Hey, again, by your logic, we should get all those pesky airplanes out of the skies, put people back on ships to cross the oceans. Worked before, certainly cheaper too when you can stuff a few thousand people on a ship.
By the way, when you make a crude comment in a reply but then edit it out, people who are subscribed still get to see it.
"Similar transport units"; you mean, like, TRUCKS?!?! ROFLMAO
No, you dipshit, like vehicles with two axles that don't need airbrakes and destroy the road.
Just because "everyone sees" something doesn't mean it's correct. If we said tomorrow "no more large trucks on 400 series highways except from 8pm until 6am" how do you think things would get where they are going? Hint: they still would.
We certainly need less trucks on the road, or at least to charge them huge tolls so that it isn't so cost effective to ship everything all over the continent.
You said "look around you, how did that stuff get there" exactly. The fact that we just ship things without even thinking about it is a huge problem and one of the stupidest things we have do as a species.
"We need trucks" - no, we don't. Transport trucks are a new invention and we existed for thousands of years prior to them and will probably exist thousands of years after we stop using them everyday.