The trucking industry got crushed by trade wars. Rates collapsed. Drivers sat idle. Some guy named Brad who financed his rig at 8% probably lost it to repossession while you were buying the dip on NVDA.
Now those same truckers are hauling HVAC systems and tubing to data centers so Microsoft can teach a chatbot to write your performance review. Business is booming. The irony writes itself but truckers don't care because they're finally getting paid.
This is what recovery looks like in America. Not for you. For the guy moving copper wiring across state lines so Sam Altman can burn another billion dollars on GPU clusters. He's thrilled. You're reading headlines about AI replacing your job while he's invoicing by the mile.
The article wants you to believe truckers have some nuanced take on artificial intelligence. They don't. They have a take on getting a paycheck after two years of eating ramen because tariffs turned their industry into a yard sale. Data centers need components. Components need trucks. Trucks need drivers who stopped caring about the philosophical implications of machine learning around the same time their savings account hit zero.
You thought the AI revolution would be led by visionaries and poets. It's being built by guys in Peterbilts who know exactly what's in the back and still couldn't tell you why anyone needs it. They're not conflicted. They're solvent.
Every semiconductor that arrives at a data center represents a truck driver who finally made rent and a retail trader who's still explaining to his wife why they can't afford one.
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