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.