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Trucking is the single biggest career in the US. Threatening that would be political suicide.

what do you mean by "biggest career"?

Not the person you’re replying to, but if you add light and heavy trucks it looks like the only comparable career by number of employees is home health care.

https://www.bls.gov/emp/tables/occupations-most-job-growth.h...

That table is showing top occupations by growth, not by total amount, so it could leave out large but not growing occupations.

There are more teachers than truckers (if my quick lazy google is correct) for instance, but it isn’t on that table.

Maybe this is a better one

https://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaat11b.htm

Probably: participants multiplied by average gross income?

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