[Brian S]

I'm wondering if one of these illegals can claim to be a "truck driver" from the "homeland" and also obtain a CDL to drive one of the big rigs?

[Enough is ENOUGH]

Sure, and I'll bet Swift would hire them for their 20 hour per day cross country runs.

[petuniasevan]

Scene: I-5 in late summer 1994.

Cast: Various cars and trucks

Opening scene: poorman and I have the CB on in our rig as we travel south through the San Joaquin Valley.

CB: "*squeal* *interference* DID YOU SEE THAT? 2 Mexicans playing truck tag!"

Pan to roadside. Tomatoes are everywhere along an underpass and the highway shoulder.

Petuniasevan to poorman: "Turn up the CB!"

CB: *a stream of profanity in Spanish* followed by mixed Spanish and English demands that someone call the cops on the truck that sideswiped him. Catcalls and laughter.

Ahead: One open-hopper semi with a load of tomatoes on the side of the road. Angry Mexican driver out literally hopping mad.

On CB: Other Mexican driver in other truck, now several miles distant, offers foul insults and jeers to the driver he clipped.

Along road: More tomatoes not destined for the cannery.

On CB: Cop explaining that there's nothing he can do.

Cut to poorman shaking his head as we ride on down the highway. Poorman, only half in jest: "We might as well give this place back to Mexico."

Fade to black...


Were the drivers in question "legal"? I don't know. But this true story will see many repeats. You just wait.