Whether on is motivated to driving tractor-trailer units locally or coast to coast, construction work, or supply delivery, all are well compensated. The growing transportation and construction industries provide work incentives that make Teamsters among the highest paid professional skilled workers in the nation.

Few industries provide the year ‘round employment opportunities that exist in construction, warehousing, and transportation. This means that the chances for advancement, in both income and responsibility, are high, and individuals can progress as rapidly as they are capable of meriting new responsibilities.

Training will very among the individual companies most of which cooperate fully with training programs conducted by the Teamsters Union. In almost all instances, however, effective and compulsory programs are carefully followed.

Through the Teamsters Union, members are assured of excellent benefits, including the opportunity to move into the jurisdiction of another Teamsters Union without loss of pension, insurance, hospitalization, and vacation benefits. Teamsters have one of the most outstanding pension programs in the United State.

Requirements:

-All apprenticeship programs require applicants to be physically fit.  In addition, applicants must take an aptitude test and be interviewed by the joint apprenticeship committee before acceptance.

*Where the apprenticeship program has established a formal classroom training course, these are required number of school hours the individual apprentice must attend each year.

For information on all apprenticeship programs, contact the U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Apprenticeship and Training, (574)236-8295.