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.