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Re:America has a truck driver shortage by whatshisface on Monday May 28, 2018 @04:42PM (#17174724)
Maybe this is a startup opportunity, take food from local restaurants and rendezvous it in bulk at truck stops.
Re:America has a truck driver shortage by not_kurt_godel on Monday May 28, 2018 @07:57PM (#17175494)
That's interesting idea, but it'd be very challenging to scale. Most rural towns have far fewer restaurants compared to cities, and of those restaurants, a significant portion serve food that's not sufficiently different/better from gas station food to justify paying a premium for it. It doesn't seem out of the realm of possibility to create an app that lets truckers queue up an order ahead of time - but even if you did, you're ultimately catering to a dying market/industry that'll inevitably disappear sooner rather than later.
Re:America has a truck driver shortage by jacquesm on Monday May 28, 2018 @09:15PM (#17175743)
You'd better research how many truckers would be able to afford it first.
Re:America has a truck driver shortage by corodra on Monday May 28, 2018 @09:31PM (#17175798)
Thank you.

Got to love folks who think a "startup" can save the world when they have no clue how the real world works. They totally missed the fact that truckers earn peanuts. So add more cost on top of a meal they can't really afford to begin with? Maybe an iPhone app can help truckers? Totally save the poor with iPhone apps. That's an idea...lol.

Re:America has a truck driver shortage by fjsolwmv on Tuesday May 29, 2018 @12:29AM (#17176502)
Truckers can make extra money delivering meals to other truckers.
Re:America has a truck driver shortage by rootsudo on Tuesday May 29, 2018 @12:58AM (#17176619)
Ubereats for Truckers! Genius!
Re:America has a truck driver shortage by georgemcbay on Monday May 28, 2018 @11:29PM (#17176257)
Don't worry, we'll just launch it in San Francisco market first while we build out the technology and raise funds, we'll scale it up everywhere else later!
Re:America has a truck driver shortage by kr4 on Monday May 28, 2018 @11:51PM (#17176342)
We'll raise some Xmillions seed round and if this doesn't work out, we can always pivot :p
Re:America has a truck driver shortage by reilly3000 on Monday May 28, 2018 @11:34PM (#17176269)
The biggest startup opportunity is in truck parking. Learn about it. There is money there for anybody with a tenable solution.