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What will self-driving trucks mean for truck drivers?
By Bernd Debusmann Jr
image captionYou can t be a trucker unless you enjoy it, says Craig Hoodless Last week, I put 73 hours in. You re not getting home through the week, Craig Hoodless says of his job behind the wheel of a truck. After a full day s driving you re mentally knackered but physically fine. Being a long-distance driver has to be a job you love. You can t do this job if you don t like it.
Mr Hoodless, based in Cumbria in north-west England, is one of the more than 300,000 people employed driving heavy goods vehicles (HGVs) in the UK, and one of millions who do so around the globe.