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user-inactivated  ·  3295 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What's your breaking point, Hubski?

    ...and wouldn't it be lovely if this show turned and the Teamsters came in and said "no, you're not allowed to drive an airbraked 10-ton truck at all without a commercial endorsement, let alone up a winding mountain road of dirt in the pouring rain

This sounds more like an OSHA thing than a union thing. I don't know anything about OSHA regulations with respect to big trucks except that they exist, but since they exist I'm willing to bet "shouldn't be driven by drivers without a CDL" is in them.

Edit: asked around and it may actually be FMCSA that would object, but they are "notoriously slow about responding to complaints."