This would be devastating because factory workers and truck drivers make up like 30% of the US workforce
This figure keeps getting thrown around and it is completely wrong. From the BLS, out of the 159 million non-farm workers in the US, only 1.47 million (less than 1%) work in ‘Truck transportation’, and not all of those individuals are ‘truck drivers’. And, while ‘factory workers’ is very vague, the entire manufacturing sector - which includes far more people than just ‘factory workers’ - employs 12.6 million (7.9%).
The entire trucking and manufacturing sectors don’t even amount to 9% of the US workforce, let alone just ‘factory workers and truck drivers’.
This figure keeps getting thrown around and it is completely wrong. From the BLS, out of the 159 million non-farm workers in the US, only 1.47 million (less than 1%) work in ‘Truck transportation’, and not all of those individuals are ‘truck drivers’. And, while ‘factory workers’ is very vague, the entire manufacturing sector - which includes far more people than just ‘factory workers’ - employs 12.6 million (7.9%).
The entire trucking and manufacturing sectors don’t even amount to 9% of the US workforce, let alone just ‘factory workers and truck drivers’.
Source: https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t17.htm