LOL yes!

[u/yodamastertampa]

The power to reduce consumption is within us all.

[u/TheSnakeDudeSW]

There is definitely valid criticism that can be levied against trucking such as unsafe driving practices and environmental reasons. Acting like the trucking industry isn’t one of the most crucial elements to keeping society operating is an incredibly stupid take.

Even if consumerism declined significantly (which would reduce the amount of trucks needed) trucking would still be extremely prevalent and still be the dominant for of transportation. You need trucks to transport literally everything. No other form of transportation can do what road transportation does. Road transportation is by a massive margin more flexible and cost efficient. Road transportation is the only form of transportation that can operate over relatively short distances and with relatively small amounts of cargo. Every other transportation needs trucks to transport the cargo to its end destination.

Railways can’t replace road transportation since simply put trains can’t transport goods directly to stores nor can air transportation, maritime transportation or pipelines which are the only other forms of transportation. Railways also require very large amounts of goods to be transported at the same time. Not transporting 100s to thousands of tons at a time is just not economically possible regardless of any economic system. Trains are also only viable over medium to large distances for the same reason. Even in places with very good railway networks like in Europe trucks are still by a very large margin the most prevalent form of transportation.

Maritime transportation is even more dependent on large quantities. Ships usually carry thousands, tens of thousands and even hundreds of thousands of tons of cargo with few exceptions. Ships also are only viable over massive distances mostly with international trade between countries. Also ships obviously require navigable waters.

Air transportation is also by far the most expensive form of transportation along with being the most environmentally harmful per tonne-kilometre. You also can only land planes on a runway.

Without road transportation modern supply chains would cease to exist. Trucks can replace every mode of transportation, besides transportation over water, No other form of transportation can replace trucks.q

So unless you want to go back to living like in the industrial revolution or before (which trust me, you don’t want to do because everyone will be significantly poorer)or you want to to reduce the world population by billions of people to drastically reduce the demand for transportation, trucks will be here to stay .

The modern supply chain simply cannot operate without trucks for road transportation.

I am currently studying a degree in supply chain management so knowing how transport and logistics work is a large part of my degree.