Watch yourselves on the road, California is importing immigrant truck drivers

[ThisIsMe]

They will be. And the state of California too.

Werner was sued and lost 100 million dollars because a car lost control on an ice interstate, crossed the median and hit the truck. The justification? The truck shouldn't have been on the road in those conditions.

Werner on the hook for more than $100M in crash lawsuit

A court of appeals has affirmed a more than $100M verdict against Werner for a crash questioning whether the trucker should have been on the road.

landline.media

That was for a crash in Texas. Different carrier.

 

[Unkotare]

Oh and yes, he is an illegal and is being deported. Another one of your illegals going back home. No future vote from him for your party.

What future vote?

 

[Unkotare]

There is no truck driver shortage.

That's bullshit the big companies use to justify bringing in foreign drivers on visas so they can pay them peanuts.

The Great American Trucker Shortage Isn't Real

The trucking industry has a retention problem, not a recruitment problem.

time.com

If they are in on visas they can't be paid peanuts.

 

[Missourian]

OK, Neither.

Buzz is that both those aforementioned companies have scads of illegals on their payrolls.

I remember when Swift was busted selling CDLs at their Memphis Academy. If I remember correctly the people buying the CDLs were illegals that didn't speak English.

 

[ThisIsMe]

Yes he is wrong. There is no driver shortage. That is a made-up excuse by trucking companies in order to let them feel better about hiring people like this idiot who is here illegally, can't read signs and doesn't care about killing Americans.

Well, you see a LOT of foreign drivers in the cabs of those trucks

 

[Missourian]

youre not wrong. You'd be surprised when you walk into a truck stop how many people you see speaking foreign languages.

It's like going to the UN.

 

[airplanemechanic]

Private carrier. Hope Trans LLC. They employ about 80 drivers..

They're all private carriers. Swift is a private carrier just like Werner. There are no gov't run trucking companies.

 

[airplanemechanic]

Well, you see a LOT of foreign drivers in the cabs of those trucks

But it has nothing to do with a "driver shortage." It has to do with the fact that Biden let these people in, who have no business in the country, they run fake DOT numbers, fake addresses, made up company names, so they don't pay required insurance premiums or anything, and take loads for rock bottom rates. They are the reason the trucking industry is in the shitter right now. These types of people drive freight rates down.

Take the time to watch this video and you can learn something. Well you can learn MANY THINGS about this industry. Notice this video is 4 months old. This is nothing new. It's reared its ugly head after Covid. Also Obama is partially responsible for this nightmare as well, as he relaxed the federal regulations about truck drivers needing to be able to read and write the English language.

 

[Missourian]

If they are in on visas they can't be paid peanuts.

23 to 33 cents per mile is peanuts.

Twenty five years ago my first trucking job paid 28¢ per mile. I had two weeks of training and a CDL.

 

[toobfreak]

Werner was sued and lost 100 million dollars because a car lost control on an ice interstate, crossed the median and hit the truck. The justification? The truck shouldn't have been on the road in those conditions.

I would appeal. Sounds like a silly argument. The truck had every right and reason to be driving on an open road. The state itself felt the conditions were reasonable.

Had the truck been there or not, the car still would have lost control and maybe hit something else.

 

[Moonglow]

Hypocrite lefties pretend that corporations are evil and should pay higher taxes but when corporations hire illegals "off the books" to avoid social security tax they aren't criticized.

You forgot to assign a political ideology guiding them

They're all private carriers. Swift is a private carrier just like Werner. There are no gov't run trucking companies.

There is in the army.

 

[Oddball]

I remember when Swift was busted selling CDLs at their Memphis Academy. If I remember correctly the people buying the CDLs were illegals that didn't speak English.

Sure Wish I Finished Training.

 

[Missourian]

I would appeal. Sounds like a silly argument. The truck had every right and reason to be driving on an open road. The state itself felt the conditions were reasonable.

Had the truck been there or not, the car still would have lost control and maybe hit something else.

I agree. If the roads were so treacherous that a semi shouldn't have been there, the car shouldn't have been there. A truck can operate in SIGNIFICANTLY worst weather than a car. I don't even start to worry until the cars start sliding off the road. At 50,000 pounds spread across 18 dinner plate sized tire-to-road contact points, I can break up the ice under my tires in ordinary winter conditions. Cars cannot.

 

[toobfreak]

I agree. If the roads were so treacherous that a semi shouldn't have been there, the car shouldn't have been there. A truck can operate in SIGNIFICANTLY worst weather than a car. I don't even start to worry until the cars start sliding off the road. At 50,000 pounds spread across 18 dinner plate sized tire-to-road contact points, I can break up the ice under my tires in ordinary winter conditions. Cars cannot.

If the roads were that bad, where is the state's DOT responsibility for not salting it????

 

[airplanemechanic]

I would appeal. Sounds like a silly argument. The truck had every right and reason to be driving on an open road. The state itself felt the conditions were reasonable.

Had the truck been there or not, the car still would have lost control and maybe hit something else.

That was old news. Werner won with a reverse of the verdict.

Werner Wins $100M Nuclear Verdict Reversal by Texas Court - TT

The Texas Supreme Court has ruled in favor of Werner Enterprises, reversing a $100 million jury verdict against the motor carrier upheld by an appellate court.

www.ttnews.com

 

[toobfreak]

That was old news. Werner won with a reverse of the verdict.

That makes sense. The original verdict was insane.

 

[airplanemechanic]

If the roads were that bad, where is the state's DOT responsibility for not salting it????

There is no DOT requirement to salt roads.

I got stuck in the great ice storm of 2021 in Dallas. The ice was 3/4" thick. Vehicles, including my 80k lb rig, came to a complete stop. We were stuck. Eventually we tried and I was able to get moving, very slowly. Others, who were in the right lane, slid off the road. Texas doesn't salt their roads, so if you hit ice in Texas, you're fucked.

 

[airplanemechanic]

I agree. If the roads were so treacherous that a semi shouldn't have been there, the car shouldn't have been there. A truck can operate in SIGNIFICANTLY worst weather than a car. I don't even start to worry until the cars start sliding off the road. At 50,000 pounds spread across 18 dinner plate sized tire-to-road contact points, I can break up the ice under my tires in ordinary winter conditions. Cars cannot.

I can PROMISE you that you can't "break up ice" under your rig. That is one of the silliest things I've ever read in my life. I've spun out on ice that was so thin you could hardly see it. You're not an ice breaker. You're a soft rubber tire that will just slide over the top. I don't care how much you weigh.

I've also driven over soft snow, that when run over by my truck, packed into a sheet of ice that I couldn't get off of, or if I could get off of it with my driver, my trailer axles were sliding around on the new sheet of ice my drive axles created for it.

Please don't drive an 18 wheeler with this attitude. You're going to kill yourself or others. What you are SUPPOSED to do, when its getting cold and rainy, is watch the trailer spray. If you've got a good pile of spray behind you, it's still liquid. If you don't, you're on ice. At that point you should put the truck in neutral and NOT change direction or lanes whatsoever. Whatever you do, DO NOT TOUCH THE BRAKES. Let the vehicles' momentum slow down. If you're heavy this can take so long you'll shit your pants repeatedly, but you won't lose control. Putting it in neutral will eliminate the chances of your jakes accidentally coming on and locking up your drives.

 

[XponentialChaos]

So…what punishment did the company receive for hiring this guy?

 

[JWBooth]

The company that hired him should be held liable to some extent.

Lots of liability to go around. All of it much deserved.
The trucking company should be sued out of existence.
The driver, his ancestors, and his dependents should as well.
Sadly there is no suing Bidet or Newscum who are responsible for turd being in this country and on our roads.