is a driver still more expensive that all those equipments + the risk of "truck pirates" that might steal the whole thing on the way?
Even in the U.S. truck drivers are not that expensive.
Even in the U.S. truck drivers are not that expensive.
Around 5000 people die per year in crashes involving trucks in the US alone.
https://www.trucks.com/2018/05/22/shippers-truckers-soaring-...
> Driver compensation accounted for 33 percent of motor carrier expenses, according to 2016 data collected by the American Transportation Research Institute, or ATRI.