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 [...]

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 […]

      • baccano@lemmy.worldEnglish
        144·
        1 year ago

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

        • Radium@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          15·
          1 year ago

          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

          • legopika@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
            3·
            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.”

        • Altima NEOEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

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