Want a Teenager Driving a 40-Ton Truck Through Your State?
Highway legislation that’s before the Senate could greatly increase the number of teenagers behind the wheel of big rigs.
FedEx Corp. trucks sit lined up in a parking lot of the company's ship center near the Memphis International Airport in Memphis, Tennessee, U.S., on Saturday, Aug. 16, 2014.
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Drivers as young as 18 years old could be allowed to drive 80,000-pound trucks between states if Congress goes along with a proposal backed by the U.S. trucking industry that safety advocates say would be a disaster.
The plan, part of highway legislation that’s before the Senate, would greatly increase the number of teenagers behind the wheel of big rigs.