Squadron7 said:
There is a great post on this over at Ace Of Spades HQ.
Read the whole thing.Quote:
With immigration authorities and regulatory agencies targeting any trucks on the road in violation of federal regulations, massive fraud is being revealed, including:
Carriers bring foreign truck drivers in on tourist visas, have them drive for 90 days, at which time they leave and are replaced by another driver on the 90-day cycle. Per Craig Fuller, "Entire fleet business models [are] built around this."
Eastern European drivers are being brought in by organized crime syndicates from their home countries, and operating with little understanding or respect for US laws.
Because of the crackdown, alien truckers are starting to ditch their trucks along highways, leaving them for the trucks' owners to come pick up.
ICE and cooperating police agencies are aggressively patrolling truck stops.
Carriers that rely on cheap foreign truck drivers are reporting massive absenteeism. Per Mr. Fuller, "This is going to destroy entire business models. Trucking companies only survive through cashflows of running freight. They are toast if this goes on."
Truck stop parking lots are suddenly much emptier than normal.
ICE is also showing up at businesses where shipments are loaded and unloaded, verifying that the truckers have legitimated CDLs. Shippers therefore are becoming proactive in ensuring that only legal drivers are backing up to their warehouse docks, and refusing to load or receive shipments from non-compliant drivers.
Trucking companies and freight brokers are being advised by legal counsel to immediately cease working with non-US domiciled truck drivers and those who lack a legal United States CDL. Mr. Fuller quotes one of them as telling him, "Plaintiff attorneys will scorch any broker or carrier for hiring an illegitimate driver."
Insurance companies are likely to refuse to provide insurance going forward for companies unless they prohibit the hiring of truck drivers lacking US-domiciled CDLs.

