OAKLAND, Calif. (CN) â Teamsters California sued the Golden State on Wednesday over plans to allow autonomous commercial trucks on Golden State highways. The union, representing over 250,000 people in several industries, claims the Department of Motor Vehicles has ignored public concern and the California Administrative Procedure Act, opting instead to accelerate regulations allowing fully autonomous, commercial vehicles over 10,000 pounds on public roads. It plans on enacting those regulations without a proper economic analysis needed for such a major rule. The tweaked automated vehicle regulations also would make small changes to existing rules allowing the testing of light-duty autonomous vehicles, like robotaxis. The Teamsters argue the changes will lead self-driving truck companies to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to exploit Californiaâs market. âThe deployment of self-driving trucks, authorized by the regulatory changes, has the potential to eventually wipe out the jobs of more than 200,000 employee semi-truck drivers working across California,â the Teamsters say in the complaint. “Despite this, the DMV rushed to promulgate these rules under the guise of amending existing light-duty autonomous testing regulations âwhich had already covered smaller autonomous vehicles like robotaxis or Waymos â in order to serve corporate interests, with little regard for the health, safety, or economic stability of everyday Californians and California businesses.â The group want an Alameda County judge to set aside the DMV’s amended AV regulations, prohibit the agency from enforcing them, and declare those regulations as major, meaning they must have an impact assessment completed. According to the Teamsters, the DMV said in April 2025 that it intended to change its autonomous vehicle regulations, including the prohibition on self-driving trucks and other heavy-duty vehicles. That decision came about a decade after the state banned self-driving, heavy-duty vehicles, which led companies to develop the technology in other states. However,