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California Senate approves ban on autonomous trucks (driveteslacanada.ca)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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California Senate approves ban on autonomous trucks::California’s State Senate this week passed a bill which, if signed into law by Governor Gavin Newsom, would require autonomous semi-trailer trucks to have a trained human safety operator whenever they operate on public roads [...]

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Do truckers have a union?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Generally no.
A few larger companies do.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I thought the Teamsters were the trucker union and were relatively powerful....

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Teamsters have a freight division but the total teamster membership was 1.3 in 2015 and there were 3.6 million truckers in the United States in 2020, so I wouldn’t say most truckers are in a union.

Teamsters doesn’t disclose what percent of their membership is made up by their freight division

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Don't forget that the package division(ups) is a large chunk of their membership.

According to their website "The Package Division is the union’s largest division, serving hundreds of thousands of members throughout North America."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Dunno shit that. My dad was teamsters, but he was just a warehouse worker.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Nope. Many are independent contractors.