The Brazos Kid said:

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techno-ag said:

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You would think with all the lawyers specializing in truck accident lawsuits, that companies would take better care to hire good drivers.

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The Texas Hammer ought to be busy these days…

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The Brazos Kid said:

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They were based out of California.

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Ah ok. Sikhs came to California in the 1700s I read somewhere. Married some local Mexican women and own large farms. Maybe they are into trucking now.

The Brazos Kid said:

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I have 30 years in the trucking industry and well over 2 million incident free miles driven. This upcoming spring, I'm letting the CDL endorsement drop. As someone with a bit of a health issue and restricted to a 1 year medical card, the amount of medical hoops I have to go through to stay compliant just aren't worth it for me anymore.

All that being said, the fact that these non-domiciled CDLs are being issued like candy to non-English speaking foreigners here on visas or here illegally makes my blood boil.

Try to do the right thing and it's an uphill battle.
Circumvent the legal channels as an outsider and it's easy as pie to get behind the wheel.

It's open season on America's highways.

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H1Bs in Truck Driving? Now that is something new.

I am sure in the next 30 years if we don't do something, we will have an H1B President.

Some people scoffed when I flagged what was happening in the tech world. One clueless lawyer guy here thinks his business is safe and calls others "average" and demands that they "be the best in the world" when these foreigners are just charging 30% of American salaries to undercut while living 10 to an apartment.

Welcome President Rajesh Kumar (4 year contract from Infosys).

Hubert J. Farnsworth said:

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I work in the oil industry and deal with truckers all of the time. A large percentage of them are foreigners now. The overall quality of drivers now compared to just 6 or 7 years ago is shockingly bad. Makes me appreciate the few old school drivers that are still left.

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Every industry is getting eaten up by cheap foreign alternatives.
America is on the way to becoming a cheap 3rd world country.

Gets weirder as they seem to be withholding information as part of a larger investigation.

BREAKING - Officials are refusing to release any information on the crash in Fort Pierce, Florida, that claimed the lives of a family of three at the hands of two Indians making an illegal U-turn, only calling them “Californian men,” and refusing to say whether they were… pic.twitter.com/GObuwEAG1m

— Right Angle News Network (@Rightanglenews) August 16, 2025

From: https://www.highwayveritas.com/p/3-dead-after-illegal-truck-u-turn

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DOT inspectors log the trucks and trailers on inspection records. From those records, we can match truck #S147 and trailer #8084 to this carrier.

WHITE HAWK CARRIERS INC
USDOT 2866642

A recurring pattern I've identified is the use of a spouse's name when registering a new authority . . . This tactic serves to obscure relational ties between carriers, allowing them to evade exact-match searches within the USDOT/FMCSA system and thereby complicating the detection of repeat offenders.

The previous trucking co. was registered to "SIMRANJIT SINGH." Another related trucking co. is registered to "HARPREET SINGH." And another one registered to "KINDERBIR SINGH."

I've reviewed jail booking records in the area, and so far, there is no corresponding arrest report or booking entry for either individual. Per local news articles, no charges have been filed.

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infinity ag said:

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Hubert J. Farnsworth said:

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I work in the oil industry and deal with truckers all of the time. A large percentage of them are foreigners now. The overall quality of drivers now compared to just 6 or 7 years ago is shockingly bad. Makes me appreciate the few old school drivers that are still left.

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Every industry is getting eaten up by cheap foreign alternatives.
America is on the way to becoming a cheap 3rd world country.

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This is an easy scapegoat. The reality is there are so many creature comforts designed for American citizens to park their ass on the couch which leads to travel/labor intensive jobs being no longer appealing to them. A Somali dude doesn't care about what's coming out on Netflix Tuesday or which team plays Sunday night football. Trucking companies are not dealing with a surplus of labor supply and just choosing the cheapest option.

Bunk Moreland said:

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infinity ag said:

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Hubert J. Farnsworth said:

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I work in the oil industry and deal with truckers all of the time. A large percentage of them are foreigners now. The overall quality of drivers now compared to just 6 or 7 years ago is shockingly bad. Makes me appreciate the few old school drivers that are still left.

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Every industry is getting eaten up by cheap foreign alternatives.
America is on the way to becoming a cheap 3rd world country.

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This is an easy scapegoat. The reality is there are so many creature comforts designed for American citizens to park their ass on the couch which leads to travel/labor intensive jobs being no longer appealing to them. A Somali dude doesn't care about what's coming out on Netflix Tuesday or which team plays Sunday night football. Trucking companies are not dealing with a surplus of labor supply and just choosing the cheapest option.

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Analogy:
Just because your kid is a bum doesn't mean you go ahead and pay college tuition for the neighbor's kid. What you do is be responsible, man up, be a parent for your own kid, beat the crap out of them as needed, and discipline him/her and teach them to take on the world.
Imagine a world where every parent ran away from their responsibilities and took the easy route.

Bunk Moreland said:

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This is an easy scapegoat. The reality is there are so many creature comforts designed for American citizens to park their ass on the couch which leads to travel/labor intensive jobs being no longer appealing to them. A Somali dude doesn't care about what's coming out on Netflix Tuesday or which team plays Sunday night football. Trucking companies are not dealing with a surplus of labor supply and just choosing the cheapest option.

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The reality is there are so many creature comforts designed for American citizens to park their ass on the couch

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https://cis.org/Report/Welfare-Use-Immigrants-and-USBorn

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The 2022 SIPP indicates that 54 percent of households headed by immigrants naturalized citizens, legal residents, and illegal immigrants used one or more major welfare program. This compares to 39 percent for U.S.-born households.

Compared to households headed by the U.S.-born, immigrant-headed households have especially high use of food programs (36 percent vs. 25 percent for the U.S.-born), Medicaid (37 percent vs. 25 percent for the U.S.-born), and the Earned Income Tax Credit (16 percent vs. 12 percent for the U.S.-born).

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A Somali dude doesn't care about what's coming out on Netflix Tuesday or which team plays Sunday night football

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Somalis are obviously too busy committing one of the largest fraud cases in our nations history: https://www.justice.gov/usao-mn/pr/federal-jury-finds-feeding-our-future-mastermind-and-co-defendant-guilty-250-million

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Two individuals have been convicted by a federal jury for their roles in a $250 million fraud scheme that exploited a federally-funded child nutrition program, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Lisa D. Kirkpatrick.

"Aimee Bock and Salim Said took advantage of the Covid-19 pandemic to carry out a massive fraud scheme that stole money meant to feed children," said Acting U.S. Attorney Lisa D. Kirkpatrick.

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I sincerely hope you, and anyone with your attitude, educate yourself. I'd like to see a course correction before the niche, online Zoomer attitude of what should be done about the boomer problem becomes more prevelant.

infinity ag said:

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Bunk Moreland said:

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infinity ag said:

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Hubert J. Farnsworth said:

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I work in the oil industry and deal with truckers all of the time. A large percentage of them are foreigners now. The overall quality of drivers now compared to just 6 or 7 years ago is shockingly bad. Makes me appreciate the few old school drivers that are still left.

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Every industry is getting eaten up by cheap foreign alternatives.
America is on the way to becoming a cheap 3rd world country.

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This is an easy scapegoat. The reality is there are so many creature comforts designed for American citizens to park their ass on the couch which leads to travel/labor intensive jobs being no longer appealing to them. A Somali dude doesn't care about what's coming out on Netflix Tuesday or which team plays Sunday night football. Trucking companies are not dealing with a surplus of labor supply and just choosing the cheapest option.

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Analogy:
Just because your kid is a bum doesn't mean you go ahead and pay college tuition for the neighbor's kid. What you do is be responsible, man up, be a parent for your own kid, beat the crap out of them as needed, and discipline him/her and teach them to take on the world.
Imagine a world where every parent ran away from their responsibilities and took the easy route.

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We don't have to imagine it. We're living it.

Invincible Aggie said:

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I sincerely hope you, and anyone with your attitude, educate yourself. I'd like to see a course correction before the niche, online Zoomer attitude of what should be done about the boomer problem becomes more prevelant.

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I sincerely don't know what you're talking about. I'm not defending the use of Somali's and other foreigners as our truck drivers.

Jarrin Jay said:

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To get a CDL you should have to be 100% fluent in English at a HS graduate level and be able to both read and write in English.

Anything else is a serious safety hazard.

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If true that hasn't been the standard for 10+ years.

The biggest misnomer in all of this is the non-stop drum beat of a "driver shortage" which simply is not true.

Public enemy number one is the American Trucking Association (ATA). They are a strongarm lobbying group from the largest carriers in the industry (Swift, JB Hunt, Werner etc.). The name implies they are for truckers but they are not.

For years, they have floated the line of not enough truckers available to move the economy so they have been complicit in the influx of foreign born workers to move freight along with the current push to lower the interstate CDL age to 18 (many states have allowed intrastate 18 year old drivers for years).

The problem looks like there is a shortage but that simply isn't true. It's a churn issue. When most of the large carriers have a turnover rate of 90% plus, they need new bodies to sit behind the wheel. The working conditions at the large carriers makes it difficult to retain quality drivers for more than a couple years.

For the foreigner component, small upstart companies based out of UPS stores/apartments etc obtain US DOT numbers (the "license" to operate as a business) with ease. There are many instances of DOZENS of trucking companies working out of one apartment address or PO Box. If one of the DOT numbers gets placed out of service or loses insurance due to violations, they already have another DOT number ready to go.

Next time you're out on a trip, take a look at the trucks you're passing. If on their door or sleeper they have a cheap, hand written placard with their credentials on it and there is evidence of tape residue all around it, they are possibly operating in bad faith.

A FANTASTIC resource on current trucking issues on X is:
https://x.com/maybedanielleee?s=11&t=t2X8o4hVQZAvAfQ1lQyAxQ

She is investigating all things shady in the industry.

Good info. I'm not sure how the job crunch is happening to create the lack of driver situation we're in, and it seems you do, my point still stands that it's not currently set up for a typical US citizen to apply for and get and be happy with their career. And given your info, it's clear a free market (or anything close to it) isn't flowing to support that either.

There are niche companies and situations where people can earn well of course, but by and large I completely agree with your post.

Ellis Wyatt said:

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Ellis Wyatt said:

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We the People are no longer in control of this country.

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lol wut

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Nobody voted for an invasion.

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Correct. We voted for Trump

Bunk Moreland said:

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Good info. I'm not sure how the job crunch is happening to create the lack of driver situation we're in, and it seems you do, my point still stands that it's not currently set up for a typical US citizen to apply for and get and be happy with their career. And given your info, it's clear a free market (or anything close to it) isn't flowing to support that either.

There are niche companies and situations where people can earn well of course, but by and large I completely agree with your post.

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Working conditions at large or "megacarriers" as we call them have only gotten worse over time. At least up until a few years ago, a guy or gal would sign up for a truck driving school and sign a contract where upon graduation, they'd hire on with one of the handful of carriers that was co-opted with that school. The contract was for usually 1 year of service to pay off the schooling. If the new driver quit or got fired, they'd be on the hook for $3000+, and most folks who end up taking this route do not have $3K to spare.

For reference on conditions, and this was 30 years ago, I worked for KLLM out of Jackson, MS in 1996. They put me in a Freightliner that was governed at 58mph and paid me .23 per mile running between Columbus Ohio and California . I did that for 6 months and made roughly $600 per week.

On top of that, the carrier can blacklist you on what's called a DAC Report which is a shared database amongst many carriers. It's your driver credit score. If they put erroneous info in there (which has happened often), getting hired with a new company can be a challenge.

The Brazos Kid said:

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This is exactly why in June I announced a nationwide audit of non-domiciled CDLs!

Joe Biden’s reckless immigration policies allowed many unqualified foreign drivers on our roads who have no business operating a 40-ton truck. This is only one of many tragic accidents that should… https://t.co/S1CCOL0Zvg

— Secretary Sean Duffy (@SecDuffy) August 16, 2025

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The illegal in question came during Trump's first term (2018).

2/ first off, you’ve probably seen this chart makings the rounds “proving” 🇨🇦 isn’t a big source of drugs in 🇺🇸.

When I talk stats, I always tell people to take careful note of what it’s showing.

In this case, it’s drug seizures on the 🇨🇦& 🇲🇽 border. Straightforward. pic.twitter.com/ZUfIiOICsf

— Stephen Punwasi 🏚️📉🐈☃️ (@StephenPunwasi) January 31, 2025

Another death attributable to Joe Biden and the Dims

Don't worry though, Sean Duffy's going to do an AUDIT

Gavin Newsom did that.

Semi's already dangerous as hell and always have been. Now even more reason to stay clear of them.

Bunk Moreland said:

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infinity ag said:

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Bunk Moreland said:

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infinity ag said:

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Hubert J. Farnsworth said:

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I work in the oil industry and deal with truckers all of the time. A large percentage of them are foreigners now. The overall quality of drivers now compared to just 6 or 7 years ago is shockingly bad. Makes me appreciate the few old school drivers that are still left.

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Every industry is getting eaten up by cheap foreign alternatives.
America is on the way to becoming a cheap 3rd world country.

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This is an easy scapegoat. The reality is there are so many creature comforts designed for American citizens to park their ass on the couch which leads to travel/labor intensive jobs being no longer appealing to them. A Somali dude doesn't care about what's coming out on Netflix Tuesday or which team plays Sunday night football. Trucking companies are not dealing with a surplus of labor supply and just choosing the cheapest option.

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Analogy:
Just because your kid is a bum doesn't mean you go ahead and pay college tuition for the neighbor's kid. What you do is be responsible, man up, be a parent for your own kid, beat the crap out of them as needed, and discipline him/her and teach them to take on the world.
Imagine a world where every parent ran away from their responsibilities and took the easy route.

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We don't have to imagine it. We're living it.

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My point was that we need to work on ourselves to become better from within. Not take shortcuts.

Another example of what to do is if one wants to become healthy, just eat right and hit the gym regularly, not take shortcuts like steroids.