In many cases the union drivers work for a large trucking company and they in tune have governs on their trucks to keep them under the speed limit. Also the larger companies have safety inspectors driving the highways of the country monitoring their drivers. Change a lane without using your turn signal and a letter is added to your personal folder. Get too many letters for violations and you will be fired.
I worked for the largest LTL (less than truckload) truking company in the country and on occassion I would have lunch with the VP of labor relations. I mentioned to him at one time that on my most recent trip to Florida I would see many Fed-Ex trucks just flying past me on the interstate and I going 5 to 10 over the legal limit. He stated that most of those are non-union contract drivers and they do what ever it takes to get the freight from one point to another.
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