Re: Ping Mike: Changing clothes at 60 mph
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 12:08:30 -0500, Drew Hamilton <awh@awh.org>
belched the alphabet and kept on going with:
>Michael Cash <mikecash@sunfield.ne.jp> wrote:
>>I'm still trying to figure out why the second one necessitated a stop.
>
>Does each driver get his own truck that he always drives, or do you
>switch trucks for each run?
>
>If it's the latter, you may be glad that he actually stopped and (presumably)
>got out of the truck.
In the US, that depends. LTL (Less-Than-truckLoad) carriers normally
get a different truck each time. These tend to be the small handful of
companies which still have unionized drivers. OTR (over-the-road)
drivers normally keep the same tractor.
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