>long hours and days spent in loneliness, away from family and friends

Calling bullshit here. If they weren't doing that work, they probably would not, in fact, get extra time with family/friends.

>the need of humans to sleep and relax means that the trucks cannot legally move for majority of the day, thus there is a need to have more of them,

Team drives can cover a majority of the day if need be for long hauling. Short hauling/last mile is capped not so much by miles traveled, but cargo load and unload times.

Folks, get over robotically doing these things.

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inglor_cz 3 hours ago | parent [-]

N == 1, but I used to live in a block of flats with three truck driver families. All three marriages collapsed over their fathers' frequent absence from home.

You can say that they would have collapsed over something else if they stayed at home, but this is what the people themselves told me.

Driving to Spain and back takes two weeks. After two weeks of his absence "I felt like a young widow already", said Hana, the youngest of the wives.

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HappyPanacea 3 hours ago | parent [-]

> Driving to Spain and back takes two weeks.

From Czechia (based on your name)? Why so long?

	▲	inglor_cz 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		* Trucks are slower than personal cars. * Pauses are required. * Some roads cannot be used by some vehicles and/or cargo, especially in the Alps. Same with tunnels. * Some countries ban trucks from their roads on certain days and hours, so a day off whether you want it or no. * Sometimes your employer tells you to avoid some extra expensive road even at the cost of longer driving time. (Europe has a myriad of toll systems.) * The cargo for the return journey is usually not ready on the same day, might well take five.