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Truck drivers are getting America's biggest pay raises
Truckers are hitting the pedal on their paychecks. Truck drivers' wages grew 7.8% in October, compared to a year ago -- the biggest jump among 60 common professions analyzed by Glassdoor.com, a job-search website. It's also far better than the overall wage growth for all jobs of 2.8%. "We have a booming economy, we're seven years into the expansion and truck drivers are the front line," says Andrew Chamberlain, chief economist at Glassdoor.
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I guess this is so they can save for when they get replaced by self-driving trucks. If I were a truck driver, I'd be investing all that extra money in Tesla/Google stock.
They'd better make hay while the sun shines, because they're all going to be out of a job in a few years with the advent of self driving trucks.