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Even as autonomous driving technology continues to advance, the freight transportation business will need more truck drivers in the future, not fewer, Werner CEO Derek Leathers told TT.
American Trucking Associations has estimated that the industry will need to hire 900,000 drivers over the next decade.
“I think that’s something that’s important for the industry and for drivers to understand,” Leathers said.
He compared the emergence of autonomous trucking to the rise of rail intermodal operations.
“There was all kinds of fear when intermodal really started to gain traction that it was going to decimate the trucking industry,” Leathers said. A couple of decades later, however, there are more truck drivers out on the road than there were back then, despite the growth of intermodal freight.
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With fast paced technology shifts and new business models in sight, Scania adapts both the industrial- and commercial parts of the organisation, as well as the business development, to be even more prepared for what the future brings.
The changes consist of merging Research and Development, Production and Logistics and Purchasing together into one strong organisation – Industrial Operations. This enables an extended focus on productivity and flow, and to be better prepared for the challenges in a transformative environment.
In the commercial organisation, the present sales and service network will merge with the company s customer financing operations to respond to a higher level of integration in future customer solutions. This organisation is called Commercial Operations.
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