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my 15 min. posts havent arrived yet so i cant leave a link but do a quick google search on oldest truck driver and u will find a active 90 year old:



TRUCKER'S STORY * USA - The oldest commercial truck driver on the road in California

90-year-old trucker keeps going and going

Oakdale,CAL,USA -The Arizona Daily Star (Tucson,AZ) By Christina Salerno -22 Jan 2008: -- At 90, Joe Rocha fondly remembers the days when truckers used flashlights to communicate, engines had to be cranked by hand, and it took 29 hours to drive from San Jose to El Centro in Southern California... Today's truck cabs look to Rocha like the inside of an airplane cockpit, with a dashboard full of buttons and switches. Everyone has a cell phone. And instead of puttering along at 30 miles an hour, trucks can travel at speeds more than double that... Rocha climbed behind the wheel of his first truck in 1938. The Oakdale, Calif. resident officially retired in the 1980s, at the age of 66... Six months later, Vincent "Fritz" Hummer, the co-owner of Hummer Trucking in Oakdale, asked Rocha if he'd like to help out occasionally. Rocha was a little bored with retirement, so he said yes... A couple of hours turned into a couple of days, then a couple of weeks... Twenty-four years later, Rocha still shows up at 9 a.m. every workday at the office of the family-owned trucking company and checks the schedule for his route... Douglas Hummer, the company's operations manager and son of its founders, said he believes that Rocha is the oldest commercial truck driver on the road in California...
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posted by truckbus @ 7:24 AM



well i have 56 more years of trucking to get to 90 :)
 
571ng3r said:
my 15 min. posts havent arrived yet so i cant leave a link but do a quick google search on oldest truck driver and u will find a active 90 year old:



TRUCKER'S STORY * USA - The oldest commercial truck driver on the road in California

90-year-old trucker keeps going and going

Oakdale,CAL,USA -The Arizona Daily Star (Tucson,AZ) By Christina Salerno -22 Jan 2008: -- At 90, Joe Rocha fondly remembers the days when truckers used flashlights to communicate, engines had to be cranked by hand, and it took 29 hours to drive from San Jose to El Centro in Southern California... Today's truck cabs look to Rocha like the inside of an airplane cockpit, with a dashboard full of buttons and switches. Everyone has a cell phone. And instead of puttering along at 30 miles an hour, trucks can travel at speeds more than double that... Rocha climbed behind the wheel of his first truck in 1938. The Oakdale, Calif. resident officially retired in the 1980s, at the age of 66... Six months later, Vincent "Fritz" Hummer, the co-owner of Hummer Trucking in Oakdale, asked Rocha if he'd like to help out occasionally. Rocha was a little bored with retirement, so he said yes... A couple of hours turned into a couple of days, then a couple of weeks... Twenty-four years later, Rocha still shows up at 9 a.m. every workday at the office of the family-owned trucking company and checks the schedule for his route... Douglas Hummer, the company's operations manager and son of its founders, said he believes that Rocha is the oldest commercial truck driver on the road in California...
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posted by truckbus @ 7:24 AM



well i have 56 more years of trucking to get to 90 :)
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Found this link. trucks world news: TRUCKER'S STORY * USA - The oldest commercial truck driver on the road in California

Mustache Retired Roadway:smilie_132:
 
RottenRalph said:
The sad fact that Junior and his band of thieves didn't do what was needed to let the senior men retire with 25 and 30 and out in central states keeps the slackers on the board and screwing the new blood
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The true fact is that President Hoffa and the Teamsters negotiators got the employers to pay the largest amount ever in the history of the NMFA into the H&W and Pension Funds when they secures one dollar per hour for each year of the Contract. On a side note, Hoffa isn't on any of the Pension Fund Boards.
 
stldude44 said:
The true fact is that President Hoffa and the Teamsters negotiators got the employers to pay the largest amount ever in the history of the NMFA into the H&W and Pension Funds when they secures one dollar per hour for each year of the Contract. On a side note, Hoffa isn't on any of the Pension Fund Boards.
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Neither was Senior on any of the Pension Fund Boards, he used his influnce to catapulit the average driver into the middle class.... Jr. on the other hand has used it to catapulit the average driver into the abbis!
 
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stldude44 said:
I believe catapult and abyss were the words you were looking for. Wouldn't you agree that in Jimmy Srs. day it was much easier to grow the pension funds as there were roughly a half a million freight Teamsters? Now we have about 75,000 and Brother that's a lot less coming in in contributions. See the link below for further explanations. Post #16 gives details.

http://www.truckingboards.com/truck...lub-study-shows-where-cut-fat.html#post391049
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Things were easier in srs. day, easy enough to fund Vegas! So why wouldn't jr. push for a Master freight contract for UPS Freight, slide them right into the pension fund?
 
RottenRalph said:
Things were easier in srs. day, easy enough to fund Vegas! So why wouldn't jr. push for a Master freight contract for UPS Freight, slide them right into the pension fund?
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You're absolutely right! I think the reason for this insanity, is that Jr. has given up on the NMFA. He's out there organizing everyone but freight companies to ensure his job. I also believe that the real culprits for the pension problems are Central States and their band of thieves. We could be getting a lot more for the money that the companies are paying in!:funky:
 
RottenRalph said:
Things were easier in srs. day, easy enough to fund Vegas! So why wouldn't jr. push for a Master freight contract for UPS Freight, slide them right into the pension fund?
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You'll have to ask him. However, with UPS, at the time, asking to pay their way out Central States I doubt that they would have agreed to the NMFA which calls requires it's use.
 
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