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

[Jim H - VA USA]

Graphic video of it....

 

[Missourian]

HUNDREDS of miles from Texas

Texas companies have sucked up all the Texas freight.

I can get INTO Texas any day. Getting out is the hard part.

But we have a few customers with reliable freight to get out.

But I don't swing doors. There's no money in door swingin' unless it's cold inside.

 

[Missourian]

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

Texas doesn't know what salt is. And I don't blame them to a certain extent. If Missouri only got snow once every half-decade, we wouldn't invest in it either. South of I-40 there isn't much salt or plows to spread it.

 

[Missourian]

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.

I told them boys those flyovers were a terrible idea.

 

[Missourian]

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

Don't know yet. Just happened the other day. California issued him a valid CDL.

You can say it.

Crazy, right?

 

[Missourian]

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.

Sue California for issuing him a CDL.

 

[Missourian]

I'm not sure what works for trucks but good studs are killer on cars. That said, I can't really blame Texas. I had relatives who lived on the Delmarva peninsula. Nearly dead flat there. My aunt used to kid about one part of a highway where there was about a 3° incline to the road: "Look out! We are coming to a hill!"

Of course, she knew what a real hill was like.

If it snows there just enough to turn the road white (it rarely snows there), they close the schools. They don't even sell snow tires in the stores because there is no demand for them.

Trucks can run studded tires, but we ordinary chain up. But there is a semi-recent development called "auto-socks". I don't think they'll last long, but just for going up and down an icy hill, some guys swear by 'em.

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[Missourian]

nice looking truck

Thanks.

 

[Leo123]

That's not really that different than it has always been. We've had Mexican trucks on I-5 for decades. Democrats have been running CA far too long and Newsom is the result.

 

[Leo123]

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It's all about cheap labor. First slavery and now cheap labor via immigrants for democrats.

LOVE THAT PIX! It captures his inherent evil.

 

[XponentialChaos]

Don't know yet. Just happened the other day. California issued him a valid CDL.

You can say it.

Crazy, right?

Maybe the employer should be held accountable for hiring an illegal immigrant.

If you guys were serious about fixing this issue, that’s your solution right there.

 

[Missourian]

There’s no trucker shortage; there’s a trucker retention problem created by the poor conditions...

I agree.

...that sprung up in the industry in the wake of 1980s deregulation.

Meh...you might be able to make an argument their. But regulation was just gatekeeping.

Like taxi cabs and medallions.

The real retention problem comes from companies that are too big, they have dispatchers and load planners that have no idea what it's like to be on the receiving end of a Qualcomm... or whatever they're using now.

Want to make trucking better. Two weeks a year, every dispatcher, driver manager, and load planner should have to do two weeks in a semi. As a passenger or better yet a team driver. Pay them .32 cent per mile and $25 to throw a four foot tarp in the blazing sun on a load that the forklift operator just picked out of mudhole to untarp it in a thunderstorm and watch the receiver plop it in another mudhole.

Let them get an understanding of what it's like out on the road with idiots that drive like the sun rises and sets in their asshole.

It's never going to happen.

But things would be much better if it did.

 

[Missourian]

Maybe the employer should be held accountable for hiring an illegal immigrant.

If you guys were serious about fixing this issue, that’s your solution right there.

I have no qualms in that department. But they are supposed to have I-9s on all their employees to prove their eligibility to work.

 

[airplanemechanic]

I agree.

Meh...you might be able to make an argument their. But regulation was just gatekeeping.

Like taxi cabs and medallions.

The real retention problem comes from companies that are too big, they have dispatchers and load planners that have no idea what it's like to be on the receiving end of a Qualcomm... or whatever they're using now.

Want to make trucking better. Two weeks a year, every dispatcher, driver manager, and load planner should have to do two weeks in a semi. As a passenger or better yet a team driver. Pay them .32 cent per mile and $25 to throw a four foot tarp in the blazing sun on a load that the forklift operator just picked out of mudhole to untarp it in a thunderstorm and watch the receiver plop it in another mudhole.

Let them get an understanding of what it's like out on the road with idiots that drive like the sun rises and sets in their asshole.

It's never going to happen.

But things would be much better if it did.

You know what's funny? My mom, who doesn't know the first thing about truck driving but hears me complain constantly, has said the same thing. "These dispatchers need to ride in the trucks with ya'll, they need to know what you go through on a daily basis."

I told her its hard enough finding good dispatchers. Making them be subject to the absolute bullshit we put up with on the daily would drive what few good dispatchers we have away. I would be totally for that, though. And let them see why some drivers refuse to go to some locations. These aren't just addresses on a screen, they are real locations, with horrible docks, terrible driveways, no-truck roads on 3.5 sides of the facility, 6 hours of wait to get loaded, 7 hours to get unloaded, no bathrooms for drivers. THAT'S why we refuse. We are tired of being treated like shit.

They go home to their families and beds every night. We live in a god damned 6 foot fiberglass (or metal) box for 3.5 weeks out of 4. We hope and pray every day that we drive that we can find safe legal parking. Dispatchers have that, at their own houses, every night. I have to get up at 1am to start my day, to ensure that no matter what, by 3pm my ass is parked at a truck stop. I don't like rest areas because of the lack of showers or free food like truck stops offer, such as free drink refills. They are sometimes quieter, but that's about it.

Of course NONE of this includes us putting up with 4 wheelers cutting us off, brake checking us, passing us on the blind side, and other stupid shit they do that they will blame us for if they cause an accident. All day, every ******* day.

Oh ****, don't even get me started.

 

[Conservative from Georgia]

18-Wheeler Makes U-Turn, Claims Lives of 3 Americans – Total News

Immigrant truck drivers passed through Florida where the truck driver from India made an illegal U turn in the middle of the freaggin highway, killing 3 in a van who slammed into him. So, be careful out there and mindful that the person behind the wheel of a giant 18 wheeler may be from Timbuctoo, for example, and not only does not know how to speak English, they have no idea what the laws on the road even are. Of course, Gavin Newsom and company don't give a damn about that or about you.

Both the cicada and the passenger driver hail from California. In California, it seems that obtaining a license to drive an 18-wheeler can be quite straightforward for immigrants, including tourists.

The tragic deaths of the three Americans bring to light the ongoing debate regarding the decisions made by Democrats and business groups to bring in cheaper immigrant labor for various sectors. This trend appears to undermine the protections established in the 1960s aimed at safeguarding individual rights and maintaining a fair government structure.

For instance, to facilitate the arrival of immigrants from diverse backgrounds, there has been a noticeable decline in the enforcement of laws concerning housing, employment, wages, truck safety, and more.

What is "totalnews.com"?

 

[XponentialChaos]

I have no qualms in that department. But they are supposed to have I-9s on all their employees to prove their eligibility to work.

“Supposed to”

Whether they do what they’re “supposed to” do depends on whether the consequences are impactful enough.

Seems like they’ve figured out that there’s a cost-benefit business decision here. They get the benefit of cheap labor and a slap on the wrist if they get caught failing to do what they’re “supposed to”.

If you hold them accountable and punish them enough, they’ll stop hiring illegals.

 

[IM2]

This will be used against Newsom and his presidential aspirations.

I doubt it.

 

[IM2]

The racists just wont quit. Thousands of white homegrown truck drivers have had fatal accidents.

 

[Missourian]

You know what's funny? My mom, who doesn't know the first thing about truck driving but hears me complain constantly, has said the same thing. "These dispatchers need to ride in the trucks with ya'll, they need to know what you go through on a daily basis."

I told her its hard enough finding good dispatchers. Making them be subject to the absolute bullshit we put up with on the daily would drive what few good dispatchers we have away. I would be totally for that, though. And let them see why some drivers refuse to go to some locations. These aren't just places on a screen, they are real locations, with horrible docks, terrible driveways, no-truck roads on 3.5 sides of the facility, 6 hours of wait to get loaded, 5 hours to get unloaded, no bathrooms for drivers. THAT'S why we refuse. We are tired of being treated like shit.

They go home to their families and beds every night. We live in a god damned 6 foot fiberglass (or metal) box for 3.5 weeks out of 4.

Yeah, I couldn't do that. And it's not feasible for you to do what I did anymore.

When I bought the FLD in the picture, it was 1999. The truck was out of your neck of the woods... A Frozen Foods Express out of Dallas in on trade at 300,000 miles. Cost me $32,000... $1,116 a month, it came with a two year warranty from Freightliner, and fuel was 96¢ per gallon in Gary. No ELDs, no CSA 2010.

Today you've got GPS tracking your truck, driver facing cameras, a good used truck is $80,000... Fuels three bucks, an oil change is three bills, gotta buy def, and that screen is going to fail every 100,000 miles like clockwork. You're pumping hot, dirty exhaust back into an engine that may last 800,000 miles. Maybe you'll be able to rebuild it. Probably not.

Today is better to be a good company driver. But what you'll always be missing on that relationship is hometime.

And that sucks.

 

[Missourian]

“Supposed to”

Whether they do what they’re “supposed to” do depends on whether the consequences are impactful enough.

Seems like they’ve figured out that there’s a cost-benefit business decision here. They get the benefit of cheap labor and a slap on the wrist if they get caught failing to do what they’re “supposed to”.

If you hold them accountable and punish them enough, they’ll stop hiring illegals.

I'm all for it.

Think you can get the Democrats on board?

Make e-verify mandatory.