The USPS' experience with trying to get rid of non-domiciled CDLs from its network shows how broken the trucking industry is and how hard its going to be to fix it.
pic.twitter.com/SqAHuqU3El — Craig Fuller 🛩🚛🚂⚓️ (@FreightAlley) October 27, 2025
Posted on 11/30/2025 6:25:32 PM PST by SeekAndFind
When the Department of Transportation's September 29, 2025 emergency rule exposed 200,000 fraudulently issued non-domiciled CDLs—many held by individuals with no legal work authorization—most of the trucking industry braced for a painful but necessary correction. The U.S. Postal Service did something far worse: it threw a tantrum and refused to comply.
Our ongoing audit identified licenses issued illegally in states across the country.
This is just the beginning. @SecDuffy and @FMCSA will continue to look into ANY state who is allowing dangerous foreign drivers to get behind a big rig. pic.twitter.com/6gkjjZdRjA— USDOT Rapid Response (@USDOTRapid) September 27, 2025
USPS briefly tried following the law by barring these drivers from postal loads. The result? Instant paralysis. Routes were abandoned, trailers sat empty, and delays exploded nationwide. Why does the USPS have a disproportionate number of Non-Domicile CDLs?
The USPS' experience with trying to get rid of non-domiciled CDLs from its network shows how broken the trucking industry is and how hard its going to be to fix it.
pic.twitter.com/SqAHuqU3El — Craig Fuller 🛩🚛🚂⚓️ (@FreightAlley) October 27, 2025
While the broader trucking market absorbed the initial shock because these non-domiciled CDLs represent only a fraction of most capacity, USPS discovered—to its horror—that its own contractor network had become grotesquely dependent on these very drivers. In other words, the Postal Service had systematically replaced lawful American drivers with cheaper, unregulated labor holding these licenses, creating a house of cards that collapsed the moment federal rules were enforced.
Day 33 of asking @USPS and @AmberMcReynolds to show they care about the safety. You banned non-domiciled CDL drivers once because you knew they weren’t safe (image). Prioritize the safety of your employees, the roads and the mail and ban them for good.
pic.twitter.com/BXslVV667V — PostalWhistleBlower (@USPSWatchdog) November 25, 2025
Instead of accepting responsibility for building an illegal-labor-dependent system, USPS executives did the unthinkable. Senior Vice President Pete Routsolias went on an emergency call and admitted they "didn't understand the magnitude" of their own reliance—then ordered an immediate return to using the banned drivers. Translation: because USPS is one of the worst offenders in flooding its network with fraudulent CDLs, it believes it deserves special treatment that no one else gets.
That is outrageous. Being the most addicted to illegal labor does not grant special treatment under federal safety rules; it is an indictment of years of reckless outsourcing decisions and willful blindness that displaced American workers and compromised highway safety. We can expect to see this same type of outcry from a few more shippers who have engineered and profited by going all in on this capacity. The damage you have done to American Carriers and American Truck drivers does not get a FREE PASS.
America's chain of custody for our mail will not be held hostage by an agency that chose lawbreakers over lawful citizens. Fix the mess you made, USPS—now—not in two years.
It really just keeps getting worse, doesn’t it?
The so-called “government” that supposedly answers to us does what it wants, and stiff arms the very people paying them.
Apathy has consequences
So the USPS went with less expensive contractors. Can’t blame them for that in and of itself. But if they knew that the reason for the lower costs was due to hiring illegals, then they’re culpable. And of course they knew, or at least they remained willfully ignorant. They would have had to have known.
But these contracting decisions were made by the Biden administration, so it makes total sense.
I wouldn’t be surprised to see President Trump wade into this and crack heads.
No. No special treatment for hiring foreigners when you could have hired Americans. You discriminated against Americans who spoke English. To Hades with you and your request for special treatment.
USPS would be better off contracting the mail out to UPS or Amazon at this rate.....
That’s probably true.
You posted my exact thoughts. It does keep getting worse the more we find out.
I didn’t know the USPS contracts directly with drivers.
I know this company does major hauling for the post office
It does not follow the law, why should we?
USPS, a government monopoly pretending to be a company.
Not solvent, not competitive, not competent, not independent and not necessary.
**So the USPS went with less expensive contractors.**
Indeed. Nearly all of the ground mail transported between cities is hauled by OTR contractors. Somewhere on the trucks you will see the company name. So the cheapest get to job. And yep, they are cheapest primarily because of the low wages the pay the drivers.
FedEx does the same thing, long haul AND local. Not sure if they hire a bunch of illegals though. I think those semi-trailers that say ‘FedEx’ on them are owned by FedEx, but the trucks are contractor owned. The local delivery trucks may say ‘FedEx’ on them, but are likely contractor owned.
Umm, no.
AIDING———ABETTING———HARBORING
The cool thing about anything government or semi-government is that they always try to play by different rules when they are the ones impacted.
They call it a Ponzi Scheme and send you to prison, but operate social security: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponzi_scheme
They lie to you all day long, but if you lie to them it’s a federal crime: https://www.justice.gov/archives/jm/criminal-resource-manual-916-false-statements-federal-investigator
They fine you if you underpay on your taxes in a (((huge))) way, but if they’re late paying you back what they owe you, they apply some funny formula that gives you a peony almost comical interest and no fine of course: https://turbotax.intuit.com/tax-tips/tax-payments/what-are-the-irs-interest-rates-for-late-tax-payments-or-refunds/c9GT7oBcN
Government is the textbook example of: “do as I say, not as I do.”
“USPS, a government monopoly pretending to be a company.
Not solvent, not competitive, not competent, not independent and not necessary.”
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Except that the USPS is a Constitutionally created agency.
He should-let’s hope he does.
ITS CALLED CORPORATE CAPTURE
The deep State has captured your government
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