When I first started driving, I was hired by Leaseway Transportation and worked my way up to the #3 Tractor Trailer driver and that took 16 years. Then one Christmas season they told us they were going non-union and we were not going to be rehired for those positions, They asked us to turn in our keys for our tractors and that was that. I then went to TNT Red Star express as a road driver and it was a shock to start all over again number 37 on a 37 person road board, but I had a teamster job and pension and as was said in some of the above posts...we have no guaranty in life. Today, Red Star is gone too and I am back with the Military, but still have my Teamster pension so I count my blessings every morning.