Truck drivers bring in median hourly earnings of $18.37, and in 2014 nearly two million workers counted themselves among their ranks.
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Trucking companies are far too discriminatory and something should be done about their hiring practices.
Everyday you can see signs on the back of trucks advertising jobs but they specify SAFE DRIVERS.
This surely is discrimination against those that wish to be unsafe drivers.
Just because one likes a ‘taste’ now and then and gets sloppily drunk should NOT be cause for the nasty trucking companies to discriminate against anyone.
Took several years to get rid of the Caboose on freight trains, Morse Operators were necessary to have aboard lest a ship could not get underway.
Those Unions can be ‘tough’....
My SIL’s dad drives for Waste Management (Teamsters) and they make good money. They always have openings because so many young applicants can’t pass the drug test for Com’l license.