My Boomer Take: I don't want a car to drive me around. I want to drive, listen to music, and decompress. It's one of the few times we cannot be "plugged in" (unless we want to crash and die of course). I'm the minority I'm sure but I don't want a self driving car.

No human interaction for 30 days. $1,000,000. Could you do it?

Elon Musk says autonomous trucks could help solve the growing shortage of truck drivers in America. He believes the Tesla Semi could also make trucking safer and more comfortable.

Met a guy at a logistics lounge in Atlanta who told me he owns a fleet of semi-trucks. Thought he meant he ran a trucking company. He pulled out his phone and showed me a tracking dashboard with 14 Freightliners on it and $2.1 million in active freight contracts. He’s 29 and he’s never driven a commercial truck in his life. He doesn't even have a Class A CDL. He buys distressed freight routes from mega-carriers. When a Fortune 500 manufacturer needs 40 loads of inventory moved across state lines by Friday, standard logistics brokers charge $4,800 per load and take 6 weeks to pay the independent owner-operators. The independent drivers hate waiting 45 days for cash when diesel costs $4.10 a gallon today. This guy steps in with a mobile app and a business line of credit. He books the contract at $4,800, instantly wires $4,200 straight to the driver's fuel card the second the trailer doors are locked, and pockets the $600 spread without ever stepping foot inside a cab. Receipts from his dashboard: Route from Atlanta to Chicago: 40 loads, paid drivers upfront, his cut was $24,000 in four days. Route from Dallas to Denver: 25 loads, cleared $15,500 over a weekend. A stranded independent trucker in Memphis who was about to lose his rig: advanced him $5,000 for emergency engine repairs, took a cut of the next three loads, made $4,200 profit. Last year he moved 800 loads and cleared $410,000 profit. Every dollar he uses to float the fuel advances comes from Chase, Amex, and Wells Fargo business cards at 0%. A 730 score and an LLC got him $180,000 in credit lines in under a week. The cards are 0% interest for 12 months, the freight invoices clear in 14 days, and the banks never see a cent of interest. "what if the driver takes the advance and ghosts" Before a single pallet is loaded, his software locks down the bill of lading with a digital escrow hold. The driver doesn't get the final delivery code until the freight is safely at the dock. "what if the manufacturer doesn't pay" He only takes contracts backed by corporate credit-rated enterprises with Net-30 guarantees. If they default, commercial factoring laws backstop the invoice. He calls himself a trucker because "freight arbitrageur" doesn't get him free drinks at the lounge. Chase lends to him at 0% and he lends it to guys burning diesel on the interstate for a slice of corporate supply chains lmfaooo (700+ score: 100K-250K at 0%. link to free credit breakdown below 👇)

The world’s most consequential region of the next 25-years.

So you can afford to pay for a $300,000 truck, but still have to resort to taping a piece of paper on the side of it???

hacking the wifi of some refrigerators is a little different than hacking the most advance cyber security ever made that will be on those trucks

John L. Keeshin owned the largest privately owned trucking company by the time he decided to quit in 1945. Born in 1902, he started at the age of 13 with a horse and truck. By the age of 43 he would have 3,000 employees, 2,000 trucks amd 17,000 miles of authority. A forgotten name in todays industry but was a prominent figure in trucking helping Joseph B. Eastman with the Motor Carrier Act of 1935, pioneering the practice of loading trailers onto railcars, and helping form @TRUCKINGdotORG which he would later step away from due to conflicting interests. John L. Keeshin would pass away at the age of 81 in 1983 having lived through pre-regulation, regulation, and the deregulation of trucking. To be able to pick that mind today would be amazing.