Virginia Postrel, Columnist

Where Have America’s Truck Drivers Gone?

People want more stuff. Regulations, retirements and a lack of parking spaces aren’t helping long-haul truckers get it to them.

June 24, 2018 at 2:00 PM UTC

By Virginia Postrel

Virginia Postrel is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist. She is a visiting fellow at the Smith Institute for Political Economy and Philosophy at Chapman University and author, most recently, of “The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World.”

Someone’s gotta do it.
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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.