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Watch the videos of truck rollovers and multi-vehicle crashes if you're
not convinced that foreign truck drivers are a threat to public safety.
Bezos would rather use Third World truck drivers than hire Americans at
a living wage as he enjoys his billionaire lifestyle.

https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2025/04/28/truckers-celebrate-as-trump-orders-fix-to-loophole-for-foreign-drivers/

Truckers are celebrating President Donald Trump’s decision to restore enforcement of a rule that excludes foreign truckers from the roads if
they cannot read English-language signs and instructions.

“They’re celebrating … Everybody’s excited, they’re happy,” said Shannon
Everett, a cofounder of American Truckers United. who explained the
truckers’ problems to Breitbart News in March.

The change is set by an executive order to be signed by Trump on Monday.
The order tells Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy “to ensure drivers violating English proficiency rules are placed out-of-service, enhancing roadway safety,” and directs him to revamp other aspects of the trucking industry.

In 2016, President Barack Obama’s deputies told highway inspectors to
stop pulling licenses from drivers who cannot speak English. That issue ballooned under President Joe Biden when many thousands of illegal
migrants, legalized migrants, and B-1 visa visitors got commercial
driver’s licenses via lax rules in California and other states.

“A prominent trucking insurance executive told me that he estimates more
than 40% of the truck drivers in the US are first-generation
immigrants,” said a tweet from industry executive Craig Fuller. “10% of
the total truck driver population does not speak English proficiently.

The result is that American drivers and their trucking companies are
losing revenue to huge numbers of foreign drivers, many who work in
crews to run trucks without sleep through the most lucrative
long-distance routes. American truckers cannot compete because such
tactics would force them to violate safety regulations and split their
low wages — but the migrants profit because they send their small gains
back to India, Eritrea, and Guatemala, where families can live very well
on a few dollars per day.


However, foreign truckers are often inexperienced and illiterate, so
pushing up the death rate on American roads while raising profits for
some delivery companies and retailers such as Amazon. Industry
publication Freight Waves described a March 13 Texas disaster when a
migrant trucker slammed into the back of a traffic jam:

A man has been arrested as authorities continue to investigate the cause
of a crash that killed five people Thursday on Interstate 35 in Austin,
Texas.

Authorities said 17 vehicles were involved, including a tractor-trailer
hauling goods for Amazon, in the accident that happened around 11:30
p.m. in the southbound lanes of I-35. Five people were pronounced dead
on the scene, including a child and an infant. Eleven others were taken
to hospitals.

Solomun Weldekeal Araya, 37, the Dallas-based driver of the
tractor-trailer, was arrested Friday by the Austin Police Department and charged with five counts of intoxication manslaughter and two counts of intoxication assault.

The issue has been ignored by establishment journalists, such as the
staff at the Washington Post, which is owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.

The surplus of drivers also deflates pressure for high-tech innovation
and productivity gains throughout the U.S. supply chain. For example,
warehouse companies face little pressure to speed up the loading and
unloading of trucks, which forces drivers to waste time in parking lots.

Business groups, however, want more and cheaper drivers to shuttle goods
from ports to warehouses, from factories to consumers, and from
credit-card swipe to eventual bank transfer. David Bier, at the Cato
Institute, for example, complained April 28 in a deleted tweet that
Trump is “planning to order the firing of thousands of immigrant truck drivers …. as he is driving up the cost of deliveries …..Obviously nuts
and undoubtedly illegal.”

But the problem of foreign drivers needs a bigger fix than enforcement
of the language rule, Everett told Breitbart News. “We’re anxious to see the full Executive Order, to see where they’re going on the other
issues, to see if they’re addressing the other issues,” he said, adding:

People need to be able to read road signs, and so we’re thankful that
he’s done that. But there were also other factors — [for example], the
lack of training, the qualification and vetting of the of these drivers
that have flooded our industry over the past couple of years … We
believe that none of these drivers have been properly vetted as they
were issued these non-domiciled CDLs [commercial driver’s licenses].

In the meantime, he and his group are lobbying for new laws in Oklahoma
and are using X to share information about the damage caused by drivers
from India, South America, Eastern Europe, and elsewhere:

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