Dire Warning On Unsafe Highways Amid Flood Of Migrant Drivers

Well, Zerohedge has once again posted an article highlighted how dangerous the highways are with the dramatic increase in CDLs going to non-domiciled immigrants during the last administration.

Not only have they flooded the industry with unsafe foreign drivers, but they've actually reduced the standards for getting a CDL in many places.

Here is a link to the article:

American Truckers United Issues Dire Warning On 'Unsafe' Highways Amid Flood Of Migrant Drivers, Crashes

Here are a few of the most important facts highlighted in the piece that really stuck with me:

• Concerns over Unvetted Drivers: ATU has found that truck-involved incidents and fatalities have been on a steady rise since 2016, and the correlations with federal immigration policies under the previous administration saw a spike in non-domiciled CDLs.
• ATU revealed that Walmart and Amazon displayed navigational signs at their trucking hubs in foreign languages
• ATU has previously noted that the Biden-Harris regime "bragged about bringing 876,000 new drivers into the market, effectively doubling the average annual output of new drivers."

"Our highways are no longer safe. Reckless immigration policies and weakened licensing standards have unleashed a deadly crisis on our roads."

- Shannon Everett of the trucking advocacy group American Truckers United

Self-driving trucks are not currently a threat to safe highways or driver wages. Flooding the industry with immigrants is the greatest threat to our industry. Just ask the business owners in landscaping, farming, and many construction trades what would happen to their businesses if they had to pay wages to American workers. They would go bankrupt in short order.

But it's worse than that. They're not making more profits than they would be with American labor, because their competitors are using foreign labor as well. There is no advantage to be gained from something if everyone is doing it.

• Hiring foreigners does not increase your profits for long.
• It ruins good paying jobs for American workers.
• Foreign workers send their wages home, draining our economy of the spending that would have come from those wages as well.

The trucking industry is still an amazing blue-collar opportunity in our society today, one of the few remaining ones left. It's a career that will challenge you, one you can be proud of, and it's an adventure like no other.

I strongly believe the current administration is fixing this problem, and companies are already looking harder for drivers than they have been the past few years. I think they will dramatically reduce the number of foreign drivers back to what it was historically, and our great industry will continue on as it has for many decades.

Time will tell.

What do you guys think? What have you seen lately on the highways? Has anything changed over the past six months since the new administration took over?

I haven't seen any improvements. If anything, it continues to get worse. Drivers on their phones, tablets in the window with movies playing, speeding and tailgating especially in construction zones and the inability to follow specific signage. Combine that with shippers and receivers happy that a driver arrives who can understand and for instructions and you have just some of the issues we're facing. I wanted to be impressed with the current administration, at least give them a fighting chance but they keep proving that they are more of the same.

I think the guidance needs to be stronger at the federal level, its a start, but its not enough. I'd like to see a blitz week on this, with weight stations and ports of entry specifically targeting this issue. States that fail to comply in enforcement should loose their federal funding for highways.

Not only is it a safety issue, its also a wage issue. I'm guessing that the lobbying groups for the large carriers and shippers, retailers and manufacturers alike are fighting this and actively pouring money into stalling it.

We're still very deep into a recession despite what the media says. Corporations are going to have raise wages and have better conditions if they hope to capture any of Gen Z for blue collar trades. The kids simply will not work for low wages.

Notice that the big Corporations are also saying there's a shortage of operators and freight handlers and industrial mechanics. There's just a shortage of people willing to work for low wages is what it means. Any time there's a claimed shortage it equates to companies not trading enough value for people's time or skills that took time to build.

It is not just a foreign driver problem. I see too many "good old boys" tailgating to the point they are a couple feet off the other vehicle, speeding, speeding in construction zones, weaving in and out of traffic, playing on their phones, watching a tablet, eating and driving with their knees.