Teamsters, Allies Again Battle Push for Oversized Trucks
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July 28, 2025 | FREIGHT INDUSTRY | In a rerun of a 40-year-old battle over safety on the nation’s roads, the National Consumers League, the Teamsters, and their allies are again trying to throttle the truck companies’ push for longer and heavier trucks traversing U.S. highways. On July 22, it played out before the Senate Commerce Committee at a hearing on bus and truck safety. Teamsters President Sean O’Brien testified. His union was already on the record—at a House hearing ten weeks before—against the bigger rigs. As usual, the motive of the corporations, in this case the American Trucking Association, is profit. People’s World
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