Teamster
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A teamster is a truck driver or a member of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, a labor union.
A modern teamster with his truck
Wagoner driving a team of four mules (US, 1914)
A carter (England, 1910)
A group of teamsters posing on a loaded wagon (Australia, 1924)
Hostler
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A hostler or ostler was traditionally a groom or stableman who was employed in a stable to take care of horses, usually at an inn, in the era of transportation by horse or horse-drawn carriage. In the
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…United States Army enlisted personnel responsible for transporting supplies by wagon and for the upkeep of those draft animals were called wagoners. Hostler…
1827 drawing of an ostler at Keston Cross
Ostler at Margam, 1818