Drivers might see trucks without a driver hitting the road soon - but many truckers are concerned about what this could mean for road safety. 

The Pittsburgh-based Aurora Innovation, Inc. is one of the companies behind the push for driverless trucks. According to CBS News, they aim to get 20 self-driving rigs hauling freight on I-45 between Houston and Dallas by late this year.

"I don't believe the average automobile driver is prepared for a driverless truck on the highway," said Lee Carr, who's been driving with McLane Company for 28 years. 

Carr, who now works as a driver trainer for McLane Company, feels the technology for self driving trucks just isn't there yet.

"[Trucks] take a lot [to] stop, they take a lot to drive," continued Carr. "Adverse conditions, quick reactions. There's a lot that I don't think that technology is prepared for...In mountain snow, and wind, ice. Different things could affect that. I don't think a self driving truck could put self driving chains on to get over mountain passes. It's a difficult thing, we all have families, we all care about everybody on the highways, and if we don't have the safety out there I don't think it's a good idea yet."

But Carr says Aurora Innovation's Texas route might be a good way to introduce driverless trucks to the road. He acknowledges that there is some benefits to driverless trucks. 

"There are some pros," said Carr. "Hub to hub, distribution center to distribution center. But as far as specialized deliveries where there's flatbeds that need to be unloaded by a crane, where there is construction material that needs to be unloaded, or just your daily delivery - I mean getting a box of sour cream or a case of soda into a building to be put on the shelf - I don't believe that there is a truck that could self drive and self unload to get it in there."

And fellow trucker Craig Durell has a similar outlook.

"I just don't think that they're a safe option," said Durell.  "I mean, if you look at where we were the other day in Vermont, there weren't center lines, there weren't nothing, we were way back on a county road delivering and I just don't see them being able to do that...Maybe a door slammer, hauling driving or something I could see it, but I don't see it affecting me too much."