But newsome said it was all Florida's fault.

DannyDuberstein said:

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Anecdotal so isn't worth much, but I honestly feel like I have seen far more "wtf?" moments with truckers over the past 1-2 years than I can ever remember. I spend a fair amount of time on 45 and 35 and historically my main complaint was largely limited to the trucker doing 60 passing the trucker doing 59.5 in a 70mph zone. But otherwise steady, predictable driving. But I've seen all sorts of wtf these past few years.

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It's worth the lives of innocent Americans.

Queso1 said:

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To answer OP's question, I'd say the billboards on US interstates would say big rig accidents are pretty frequent lucrative.

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FIFY

TAMUallen said:

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Ellis Wyatt said:

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But California doesn't even care. They'll do nothing to stop it.

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Therefore the problem. These Californian illegals are driving cross country with their Californian papers.

Wouldn't surprise me in the least to see federal checkpoints popping up all over on interstates to remove illegal drivers

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Wasn't the state of Oklahoma already doing this? They are the ones that uncovered the No Name drivers?

agent-maroon said:

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Quote:

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A couple factors.

1 - Almost all Sikhs have Singh as their surname.
2 - Sikhs specialize in driving.

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Kind of like how the Patels specialized in dirty, cockroach infested, poorly maintained hotels/motels?

I worked a couple of summers for a sheet metal roofing company that would send me and an experienced guy out on quick repair jobs. His comment when it was a hotel job was "There are hotels and there are motels. But today we're going out to a patel. I hate these kind of days."

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Yes. It's the same situation.

If you look, you'll notice there are a lot of truck stops that specialize in Punjabi food. Especially in the California Central Valley.

When I lived in Sydney, I preferred to use the taxi company Silver Service because most of their drivers were Sikhs.

They were always prompt, courteous, clean, etc. Other taxi companies not so much.

https://silverservice.com.au/

agsquirrel97 said:

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Anecdotal but I have plenty of drivers show up in last 2 years that speak poor English and they can't back in to dock worth a crap. I have a sped up video that I overlayed with Benny Hill theme where a guy fought for 34 mins to back into the dock and finally a white driver told him to get out and he backed it in first stab.

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Try non-addressed delivery sites where a foreign language GPS can't get them to a laydown. The ensuing hour long call between a foreman or material handler and a near-noncommunicable truck driver who's trying to find turn-around and road signs and making turns… harrowing. It's probably better when's there's no cell reception and they just have to explore the area.

fixer said:

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It would be great if there was a separate freight highway system so these jackasses can crash into other vehicles of similar size.

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I agree with you.

And I think this is where Obama and his "shovel-ready jobs" really failed.

We're long overdue for an Eisenhower Interstate System 2.0 or even 3.0.

What I'd like to see is 3 systems:

1 - regular folks
2 - freight
3 - self-driving cars

This is what a quick search gave me

In recent years, multivehicle accidents involving large trucks have increased significantly, with more than 5,000 fatal truck crashes reported in 2023. These crashes disproportionately affect occupants of other vehicles, who make up the majority of fatalities.
Statistics on the rise of multicar truck accidents
The number of large trucks involved in fatal crashes increased by 49% between 2012 and 2022.

HollywoodBQ said:

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fixer said:

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It would be great if there was a separate freight highway system so these jackasses can crash into other vehicles of similar size.

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I agree with you.

And I think this is where Obama and his "shovel-ready jobs" really failed.

We're long overdue for an Eisenhower Interstate System 2.0 or even 3.0.

What I'd like to see is 3 systems:

1 - regular folks
2 - freight
3 - self-driving cars

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I've always assumed that #2 would actually develop first for big rigs as part of the highway system simply because we are talking mostly straight aways on the highway system and the ROI is huge. We currently have self driving trucks operating in Texas, but I'm not sure to what degree. If done right, it doesn't require a new, separate road system either which would be monumentally costly.

However, it looks like Elon is going to get #3 to the market first using existing infrastructure. I saw my first Waymo last week in Phoenix. It was weird to see a car driving around with zero occupants.

They are just here for better life. Causing the wrecks Americans refuse to cause

From my pal Justin aka SuperTrucker on x:

It starts with lobbyists at The American Trucking Associations lying to the public for decades that we have a truck driver shortage.

It didn’t stop there.

Those drivers they imported started trucking companies of their own, and then began importing the drivers that THEY wanted. https://t.co/YFgjfZsELH

— SuperTrucker 🚛💨→💻🥷 (@supertrucker) October 23, 2025

Not necessarily a foreigner but Western Express don't always hire the brightest of the bunch:

This video is back from earlier this year. Our roads are dangerous. The commonality of this would scare some people… pic.twitter.com/KmUYh7jA2T

— Adam L. Wingfield 🚛👨🏾‍💻 (@adamlwingfield) October 23, 2025

I think a couple of more multi-million dollar lawsuit settlements and trucking companies will pay more attention to who they hire as drivers

Are we to the, "it's happening and it's a good thing," stage yet?

CDUB98 said:

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Are we to the, "it's happening and it's a good thing," stage yet?

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I think so. Democrats have been good with sacrificial death for some time if it advances their cause.

Fleccas Talks is a podcast on YouTube put out twice a week, they usually have a section every episode of illegal truck drivers causing accidents or doing the dumbest **** you've ever seen behind the wheel of a truck. This has been going on for a few years now. Most of them can't speak English, how in the hell are they reading road signs?

California and NY are even issuing CDLs with 'No Name Given' on the ID. Oklahoma has been nailing the Cali illegal drivers at their weigh stations. It's absolutely terrifying they are letting some of these guys haul the loads they haul down the road when they can't even read any signs.

[url] https://www.instagram.com/reel/DO1hphHkh9c/?igsh=djlzbzE0YnRwYzFj[/url]

agdad4x said:

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I think a couple of more multi-million dollar lawsuit settlements and trucking companies will pay more attention to who they hire as drivers

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They shouldn't need to be the gatekeeper. They should see license and history and hire accordingly. If the credentialing agency isn't gatekeeping, that's the critical failure point. And I'd be ok with Trump sticking it to any states who's illegal licensing leniency is putting my family at risk.

DannyDuberstein said:

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Anecdotal so isn't worth much, but I honestly feel like I have seen far more "wtf?" moments with truckers over the past 1-2 years than I can ever remember. I spend a fair amount of time on 45 and 35 and historically my main complaint was largely limited to the trucker doing 60 passing the trucker doing 59.5 in a 70mph zone. But otherwise steady, predictable driving. But I've seen all sorts of wtf these past few years.

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You think 35 and 45 truckers are bad?

Go east on I-10 into Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. **** gets crazy real fast.

Get Off My Lawn said:

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agdad4x said:

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I think a couple of more multi-million dollar lawsuit settlements and trucking companies will pay more attention to who they hire as drivers

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They shouldn't need to be the gatekeeper. They should see license and history and hire accordingly. If the credentialing agency isn't gatekeeping, that's the critical failure point. And I'd be ok with Trump sticking it to any states who's illegal licensing leniency is putting my family at risk.

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Exactly. As shady as some of these trucking agencies may be, you allow them to be that way when the govt is issuing DLs and CDLs to illegals.

YouBet said:

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However, it looks like Elon is going to get #3 to the market first using existing infrastructure. I saw my first Waymo last week in Phoenix. It was weird to see a car driving around with zero occupants.

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If you think the Waymos are a trip, you ought to see these little Zoox driverless vehicles they've got running around Las Vegas.

Took a ride in a @zoox this past weekend in Vegas. Such a smooth ride and seamless experience! Can’t wait to see this pop up in more cities across the US. pic.twitter.com/xsrGsC2lx4

— Some Guy (@TechCowboy_TX) October 13, 2025

backintexas2013 said:

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They are just here for better life. Causing the wrecks Americans refuse to cause

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Got it.

Now kick them out.

CDUB98 said:

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Are we to the, "it's happening and it's a good thing," stage yet?

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We are in the "poor trucking companies operate on such slim margins, they need to hire illegals else they will go out of business... why are you jealous they are making money???" stage.

Same in WA State. I drove past TWO on my way north to Everett, WA yesterday that are usually closed...

It would be nice, but I am going to pass on trusting the government to build another interstate road system. Nothing about the federal government since 1945 should inspire anyone to think they are capable of anything but stealing the public's money.

fixer said:

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It would be great if there was a separate freight highway system so these jackasses can crash into other vehicles of similar size.

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Or into the folks that allowed them in.

Very simple way to fix this:

When you pick up a load, the housing team must log the approved driver badge/ID. If that driver is pulled over, causes an accident, etc. (being an illegal driver) then that most recent/current housing team (or hell all of them)/are is in part liable for that driver being on the road.

No more illegal drivers.

been driving for nearly 40 years now

never have seen such awful drivers as right now in the past year

in the DC area, you have the Asians driving 50 on the highway

and the gangbangers driving 90 on the highway

and the big rigs going 80

When California issue 62,000 CDLs to illegal immigrants there lies the problem

Dirty_Mike&the_boys said:

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When California issue 62,000 CDLs to illegal immigrants there lies the problem

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Saw that. They need to be punished. Gavin still has support from his own state though.

Stupid, stupid people there.