Sikh drivers are transforming U.S. trucking. Take a ride along the Punjabi American highway

The Los Angeles Times ^ | June 27, 2019 | Jaweed Kaleem

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Long read, but worth it.

[Veto!]

Don’t want to pay to read it. What does it say?

I have had good experiences with Sikh cab drivers....they were all over Seattle when I lived there, only polite people in town. One even refused to charge me for a ride.

[Salvavida]

Better than Pakis with ammonium nitrate filling their vans.

[CTyank]

Sikh’s rock.

[Nifster]

When my child was young her pediatrician was a Sikh. California has several large communities. Great people

[righttackle44]

Sikhs carry a ceremonial knife all of their lives. They also carry them in the presence of Queen Elizabeth, the only persons allowed to be armed and be near her, except for her armed guards.

[no-s]

Sikh’s rock.

I attended a wedding at a Sikh temple. There were armed men guarding the altar. Only it turns out it's not an altar, it's a library!

[dp0622]

Yeah who gives a @#$#??

How many times are they on the front pages blowing someone’s head off?

About as often as Asians.

I wonder how they vote though. Just curious.

[kiryandil]

Sikhs are the best.

[Chauncey Gardiner]

I’ve admired and liked every Sikh I’ve ever met.

[Candor7]

On the truckers CB radio, channel 19:

“Are you the personage to whom I am speaking?”

[Reno89519]

Send them home to India. Put Americans back in those trucks.

[catnipman]

As a class, Sikh’s are awesome people!

[DIRTYSECRET]

I worked with one. Just one. He was an asshole.

[Deaf Smith]

The CB Radio has been worthless on the highway the past 25 years.

All you can make out is Mexican, Russian and a few other non English languages.

18 wheel crashes seem to have increased during that same period

[Salvavida]

Islam is a known entity. It plays out one way and only one way. It isn't "if" it is "when" one of them detonates his load at a high value target. A tunnel. A football game.

So yeah, it's worthy of giving a rat's ass.

[BluH2o]

Send them home to India. Put Americans back in those trucks.

Long haul carriers in the U.S. are having major issues recruiting drivers ... turnover rates are off the charts. Drivers are gone for extended periods, the job is lonely and often times thankless. Drivers extend their hours to make a deadline delivery and are berated by the consignee for being marginally late, after a three day trip ... thru no fault of their own. Happens all the time in the industry ...

[dp0622]

You know Sikhs aren’t muslims you ignorant ####, right? :)

[Salvavida]

Did I say they were the same jackass? I said Pakis. As in Pakistanis. I am a TRUCKER, I see them and the Somalis all the time. The Sikhs are benign. Not the Muslims. They are a gathering threat.

[jcon40]

I know several Sikhs, all Trump fans.

Great attitudes about life. Love to laugh and tease

One of the families I know has 4 generations that have fought for the US.

Very proud of their service

Great people.