"Teamster" as a job description has been around since the 1840's so don't confuse it with a union affiliation.</p>
The first time I sat in the driver's seat of a cab-over diesel with a sleeper I was in Knoxville, TN at 4 o'clock in the morning. The second time I sat in the driver's seat of a cab-over diesel with a sleeper was two hours later pulling a 12 foot wide 65 foot long half of a double-wide from Maynardville, TN to Bluefield, West Virginia: a 13,000 pound tractor pulling a 10,000 pound trailer with no trailer brakes and no freeways
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My point. Teamsters as a craft are highly overrated. Common sense and caution are adequate. Give me your twelve year old and a day and he or she can pass the CDL tests.</p>
Teamsters as a union want respect through bluster and intimidation because they know they wouldn't get it otherwise.</p>
Teamsters will point to the changes to improve safety but will fail to mention that they fought against these changes but once they passed into law they tried to take credit for them.</p>
I'm not against all teamsters; just the ones full of BS. </p>
There are plenty of them out there that I respect. You've seen them; 5' 2", gray haired 60 year old grandmothers driving an 80,000 pound rig with one finger.
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The first time I sat in the driver's seat of a cab-over diesel with a sleeper I was in Knoxville, TN at 4 o'clock in the morning. The second time I sat in the driver's seat of a cab-over diesel with a sleeper was two hours later pulling a 12 foot wide 65 foot long half of a double-wide from Maynardville, TN to Bluefield, West Virginia: a 13,000 pound tractor pulling a 10,000 pound trailer with no trailer brakes and no freeways
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My point. Teamsters as a craft are highly overrated. Common sense and caution are adequate. Give me your twelve year old and a day and he or she can pass the CDL tests.</p>
Teamsters as a union want respect through bluster and intimidation because they know they wouldn't get it otherwise.</p>
Teamsters will point to the changes to improve safety but will fail to mention that they fought against these changes but once they passed into law they tried to take credit for them.</p>
I'm not against all teamsters; just the ones full of BS. </p>
There are plenty of them out there that I respect. You've seen them; 5' 2", gray haired 60 year old grandmothers driving an 80,000 pound rig with one finger.
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