AMERICA WITHOUT DRIVERS
A Driver’s Perspective
Five or six years ago, America Without Drivers began when I brought together a small group of people who shared a common vision. As time passed, everyone eventually chose a different path. Today, America Without Drivers remains as a record of that early work, while I continue writing through A Driver’s Perspective, with the help of a longtime friend, Jen, who manages my website and edits and publishes both my trucking and Christian books.
Long before many of today’s trucking personalities built large online audiences, America Without Drivers was contacting elected officials, asking difficult questions, and attempting to bring national attention to autonomous trucks. At the time, the subject received relatively little public attention. Today, that conversation has reached the mainstream. Government agencies, carriers, technology companies, industry organizations, news outlets, content creators, and professional drivers are all discussing the future of autonomous trucking. Because of that, I spend far less time writing about autonomous trucks. My attention has shifted elsewhere.
Today, there is no shortage of talking heads, influencers, and self-proclaimed experts producing trucking content. Much of it follows the headline of the day. My work has always taken a different direction. I am less interested in today’s controversy than I am in understanding the SYSTEM behind trucking—the legislation, regulations, organizations, financial incentives, and institutional decisions that shape where this industry is ultimately headed. I prefer to examine the industry from 30,000 feet, looking beyond today’s headlines to the larger forces that will shape tomorrow.
That approach has earned its share of criticism. I’ve been called names, dismissed, and discredited by some of the loudest voices in trucking. That doesn’t concern me. Time has a way of separating temporary opinions from documented history.
Five or six years from now, just as America Without Drivers serves as a historical record of what was being discussed before many others began talking about it, A Driver’s Perspective will provide another record. The difference is that this work is being preserved more intentionally through investigative reports, published books, and a permanent archive designed to document the evolution of this industry. Readers will be able to look back and judge for themselves who was educating drivers, who was documenting facts, and who was primarily building a personal brand.
My goal is not to become another trucking personality. My goal is to preserve the history of a profession that gave me a lifetime of work. If professional drivers spend more time following personalities than understanding the forces reshaping this industry, we risk becoming followers of brands instead of informed advocates for our own future.
In the end, I don’t expect my opinion to be the deciding factor.
The record will speak for itself.
Will Cook
A Driver’s Perspective
August 1, 2026