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Cheap Haulers * USA - GM, Chrysler, Use Them
Lamsing,Mich,USA -Teamsters for Democratic Union, by Nora Macaluso -December 3, 2009: -- General Motors Co. and Chrysler Group LLC are cutting costs by using cheap, nonunion trucking companies to haul vehicles from factories to dealer lots, putting people out of work and endangering consumers and motorists in the process, according to a report issued Dec. 2 by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and consumer groups... The report, which includes photographs of allegedly damaged vehicles and unsafe procedures, was sent to the companies and to every member of Congress, said Fred Zuckerman, director of the Teamsters' automobile transporters industry division... The low-cost haulers, the report says, use inexperienced drivers and improper equipment, resulting in damage to vehicles and increasing the likelihood of accidents on the road... GM, asked to respond to the report, said there were “no significant changes” to recently negotiated contracts with two union-represented car hauling companies...
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