Posted on 04/10/2025 8:41:33 PM PDT by Texan4Life
But what’s going on today that’s even a bigger problem is the issuance of U.S. commercial driver’s licenses called non-domicile CDLs to noncitizens. That just started in 2021 under what’s called the Biden-Harris trucking action plan. And so we actually have non-citizens, just similar to what you saw those reporting on recently. Yeah, hey, we found out these guys are getting EAD (employment authorization document) cards. We found out they’re getting social security numbers. They’ve left one loose end. They also got commercial driver’s licenses,” he continued, explaining that they believe there are actually hundreds of thousands of drivers who came in on these EAD cards and have not been properly vetted at all.
“Problem with that is, these people have not been vetted, these people have not been properly qualified and trained. And so we actually have on our highways right now, we believe, hundreds of thousands of drivers that have been brought in on these EAD cards, not properly vetted, and then put in trucks,” he said.
“And so that’s why you’re seeing these increased accidents. That’s what you saw in Austin, Texas, with the crash that killed five people and injured 11. That was a non-domicile driver’s license, and so that guy had come in on a work visa, couldn’t speak English, wasn’t properly trained, and now we’ve got five people dead, 11 people injured,” he continued.
https://www.breitbart.com/radio/2025/04/10/exclusive-co-founder-american-truckers-united-shannon-everett-hundreds-of-thousands-drivers-not-properly-vetted/
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The Biden-Harris trucking action plan involved smuggling thousands of illegals into the country in tractor trailers.
Have you noticed all of the new Indian/Pakistani restaurants along the interstates? Babu has returned with a vengeance.
As someone who has been intentionally ran off of the road (multiple rollover) by a semi (for no reason), I am hoping this situation will be rectified.
Teamsters (wink and a nod)
Egads! Bet they don’t carry insurance either.
“da plan!, da plan!
Anyone remember this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Lakewood_semi-truck_crash
I believe that the guy could not read English and ignored the warning signs. 4 people died. A court gave him 110 years. But the Colorado governor reduced it to 10 years.
Simple fix
Caught driving illegally
Truck and load seized
$25k fine
Autodeport
Give the ill eagles ESAD cards.
Go to any truck stop and search for an English-speaking white man. Good luck finding one. I’m amazed that this issue has not made major news.
Every time I’m at a truck stop I see foreigners there, many wearing a turban.
Right... and isn’t this a union issue?
The first are the traditional , generally highly skilled, very competent American drivers
The second is a new class of foreign drivers who are flooding our country under the Biden Administration, Many of them are probably illegal aliens.
The are unskilled , borderline dangerous drivers who don't speak much English. They can barley back a trailer and have a tendency to run into things in shipping and receiving areas.
Many seem to come from strange countries and belong to some sort of organized group that is importing them into the country and steering them into jobs and setting them up with rigs.
A lot of them seem to be related to Roma gypsy culture in one way or another which is kind of weird.
Have had some really interesting and enlightening discussions with some of the high skill American drivers who are rubbing shoulders with the new breed of foreign long haul truckers
THE UNINSURED MOTORIST COVERAGE ON MY 1976 1 TON PICKUP TRUCK==48.8% of the total premium,.
Coverage on my 79 car = 38.9%.
HAVE NEVER HAD AN ACCIDENT
It’s like they’ve forgotten Sept 11, among other things. I wonder if they were handing out pilot’s licenses so readily. Probably.
For my job I spend some time at our distribution center. It’s amazing how many drivers barely speak English. They show up at a plant wearing flip flops. I’ve seen them struggling to back into a loading dock. Y’know, truck driving 101.
My son is a trucker. More properly, not a driver, an operator. He began with box trucks and by 19 had moved on to flatbed semi’s. flatbed operators earn more money because they are responsible for supervising the load and securing it.
He’s now 25 with hundreds of thousands of safe miles under his belt.
I count the dump truck he rolled as a safe driving day. A school bus driver with 40 kids in her charge pulled out right in front of him. He swerved and according to a witness had a fully loaded dump truck on two wheels for about 100 feet before it finally went over.
Total hero. Operator, not just driver.
I had always assumed that those 18-wheelers had the best drivers, so was not worried about them as I drove through the mountains and/or bad weather.
Not anymore. I watch a tow-truck guy and he bemoans the crappy drivers just like you said. The language barrier is huge when he tries to help, and they are pretty much useless in trying to help.
He has come across some trucks that will have several people in it. Goes to check something under the truck - and it is splattered with crap. Human crap. They cut a hole in the floorboards so they can crap and not stop driving! As soon as he sees that he tells them he can’t help them. Health and safety reasons.
Oh - speaking of non-citizens. Washington state just passed a new law that will allow non-citizens to become police officers!
I saw that Casey LaDelle video. That was pretty gross.
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