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Key regulatory changes that removed barriers and gutted safety enforcement:
2016 – DOT stops enforcing English-proficiency requirements for CDLs
2018 – ELD mandate implemented; self-certified devices with intentional back doors allow unlimited editing of driving hours
2019 – Non-domiciled CDLs introduced, permitting foreign nationals to obtain U.S. commercial licenses
2022 – Entry-Level Driver Training rule triggers explosion of unaccredited “CDL mills” selling licenses for $500–$1,000 in days with virtually no training
These minimally trained foreign drivers cannot pass the vetting of large, compliant carriers (no work authorization, poor English, zero experience). They end up at small, often foreign-owned fleets that pay 40% below market and routinely run 14–20-hour days using tampered ELDs.
And with the Motor Voter law, every illegal “license” holder was registered to vote. I wonder how many times they voted, and how many States?
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The Democrats are waging total economic war against the American people.
They made getting a CDL harder, which increased the payoff for cheating the system.
Drove for 20 years, the last 15 for a bonded carrier that carried DOW(DOD) freight and pharmaceuticals. This problem has been evident the whole time wife and I drive as a team the last 17 years. Russians, Eastern Europeans, and the influx of trash from the Middle East and India/Pakistan area. They has never been a shortage of drivers, just a shortage of qualified drivers that refuse to work for less than minimum wage. For executives to say they didn’t know about the influx is to say they refused to say anything about it. The stories of 3 or more drivers in a truck are true; truck always moves. The only thing that gets washed is their feet in restroom sinks.
What happens when a flaming queer runs the DOT?
Middleman operations can be a boon to competition and/or can spell doom to everyone but the middlemen. In time, sometimes, profit margins of end producers shrink and the middlemen become the ones with the highest profit margins. Farmers have been seeing this for decades. Grocery store prices get raised but it rarely starts with the farmer, it comes from the middlemen.
That applies to companies that own the products carried by those trucks, the companies which hired the truck companies to carry the cargo, the driving schools which gave them the CDL's, the states which issued the CDL's, the companies which owned the trailers and trucks the cargo was carried on or by, the companies which paid and/or provided the drivers, etc.
Too nuch legal neep is required to explain the legal reasoning here. I was a civil litigation attorney for forty years. IMO it will take at least twenty years for such litigation to end up going through the courts.
That twenty year period will start only after the last CDL carried by an illegal alien is cancelled.
This has been going on for years. Obama did everything he could to eliminate experienced, American CDL drivers.
More drivers & less experience didn’t gain us a whole lot, did it? Experienced careful drivers is a MUST, especially for long haul operations. It’s very what being without those careful requirements brings.
John Adams wrote that the Constitution was “made only for a moral and religious People” and is “wholly inadequate to the government of any other”.
We are bringing immoral evil people into our country. They will use every freedom, law, and policy against us in order to steal our citizens jobs, our nation’s riches, and our people’s freedoms.
Every single illegal alien needs to be deported.
The real hellscape in trucking began when Jimmy Carter signed the Surface Freight Deregulation Act of 1980. That’s when the old days of a driver being able to make a living on a semi-normal schedule ended.
The American Trucking Association pushed for the deregulation, and in doing so effectively screwed its members.
Confirms my impression that the broker based trucking arrangement is wild west.