Steve Viscelli
BideN Trucking Action Plan
Over the last year and a half, I've helped the White House, USDOT, USDOL, FMCSA and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau as they've worked to improve trucking jobs. It was a great honor to be asked to the White House to celebrate that work. While there, I put my dismal selfie skills to work. There is still a lot of important work left to do for America's truckers!
I am a sociologist at the University of Pennsylvania who studies freight transportation. My first book, The Big Rig: Trucking and the Decline of the American Dream (UC Press, 2016), explains how long-haul trucking went from being one of the best blue-collar jobs to one of the toughest. My current book project, Driverless? Autonomous Trucks and the Future of the American Trucker, explores self-driving trucks and their potential impacts on labor and the environment. Currently, I'm researching how Amazon is transforming delivery jobs.
Research Areas
Transportation Jobs
Automation
Energy in Transportation
Education
PhD in Sociology, Indiana University
MA in Anthropology, Syracuse University
BA in Philosophy, Colgate University
This website describes my research on Self-driving trucks, Autonomous Trucks, Worker Misclassification, Trucker Misclassification, Job Losses from Autonomous Trucks, Job losses from Self-driving trucks and policy.