teamster

Drives for wages

A teamster is someone who drives a truck for a living.

The term originally meant a driver of a team of horses or draft animals pulling a wagon, and that sense persists in historical contexts: The teamster guided his mules along the mountain trail.

The word now almost always refers to professional truck drivers: The teamsters hauled freight across three states. (Capitalized Teamster refers to a union member.)

driver

trucker

Commercial freight driver

haulerOne who transports cargo
rigEquipment arrangement or vehicle
semiLarge freight truck

eighteen-wheeler · tractor-trailer · long-haul · freight · cargo · dispatch · convoy · interstate · overland · lorry

historical

wagoner

Driver of goods-laden cart

draymanLow-cart operator
stagecoachHorse-drawn route vehicle
coachmanHorse-drawn carriage operator

reins · whip · horseman · drover · postilion · carting · haulage · hackney · charioteer · livery

logistics

warehousing

Storing goods commercially

distributionAllocation across recipients
freightGoods being transported
shippingTransporting goods to destinations

receiving · pallets · containers · tracking · intermodal · customs · fulfillment · inventory · cargo · export

Categories

transport workerstruck driver, coachman, taxi driver, stagecoach driver, train driver
driverstruck driver, bus driver, taxi driver, cab driver, delivery driver
camp followerssutler, laundress, washerwoman, camp cook, prostitute
farm laborfarmhands, farm labor, field hand, field hands, farm hand
haulershauler, haulier, freighter, carrier, transporter
horse workersgroom, stable hand, stable boy, stable girl, farrier

Opposites

occupational role in transportation

teamsterpassenger

Traveler, not operator

rider · commuter · cargo · freight · hitchhiker

labor organization stance

teamsterscab

Dried blood crust

strikebreaker · management · company man · employer · boss

Family

Familiarity: Top 500,000
Profile: Mostly American · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G