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...author is a sometime trucker who, for the past seven years, has been using a three-quarter-ton pickup to deliver honey from her bee farm to retailers around the country. She sleeps in truck stops because they are safe and coffee is always available...
...details. A low shot of a Peterbilt, its chrome fittings sparkling in the sunshine, is followed by one of a bosomy young woman, the same who must pose for those calendars found in auto-parts stores. She almost has on clothes, and she is offering to check a trucker's oil. The next slide is a side view of a whole tractor-trailer rig, its 18 wheels gleaming and spoked. It is followed by one of a blond bulging out of a hint of cop clothes writing a naughty trucker a ticket...
Federal law states clearly that workers in the same job cannot be paid differently because of their sex or race. Comparable worth would take these guarantees of equal pay for equal work a step further: workers in such traditionally male jobs as trucker and accountant, for example, would no longer make 30% to 40% more than holders of traditionally female jobs like secretary and nurse. Commission Chairman Clarence Pendleton and other opponents argue that comparable worth laws would involve the Government in a morass of subjective judgments about salary considerations best left to the free market; Democratic Representative Mary Rose...
There is little sense in double rigs with theoretical weight equal to those of 45-foot trailers, but with 11 tempting feet of extra cargo space. These trucks provide a ripe opportunity for the unscrupulous trucker--and more than one-quarter of them are unscrupulous--to overload in pursuit of bigger profits. The Motor Carrier Act of 1980 deregulated the industry, finally making it a competitive one--and 3000 new carriers seized the opportunity to grab permission to run on 36,000 new routes in 1983. The competition is brutal; the railroads have moved in to grab back a full...
...concept known as equal pay for equal work. The issue of equal pay for comparable work, however, is vastly more complex. It arises because studies show that jobs traditionally held by women (nurse, librarian, secretary) tend to pay less than jobs generally held by men (accountant, construction worker, trucker) that seem to demand the same level of skills, responsibility and effort. This is a major reason why working women, despite equal-pay laws, still earn only about 60? for every dollar earned by men. The question now is whether courts and the Government have the right, or the practical ability...