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28 // OWNER OPERATOR // JANUARY 2016 By Jack Roberts Maintenance Matters TRUCKING'S FUTURE WON'T HAPPEN WITHOUT TRAINED TECHS F orecasting the future is always tricky. Even the best, brightest and most well-informed futurist can't anticipate all of the variables and unknowns that come into play when trying to look ahead even just five years. There always seems to be something incredibly simple that everyone overlooks but that ends up changing everything. Fifty years ago, no one had the simple idea of connecting every single computer together via phone lines to quickly and efficiently share information. Yet the Internet is one of the most important technological advances in human history, with a profound impact on virtually every aspect of our lives today. I'm convinced that the one thing that will have the most immediate impact on truck