Ex-Trucker: Gang Heists, Human Trafficking Routes & the Tyrannical Plot Stealing Jobs from Americans

The 1980 Motor Carrier Act deregulated the trucking industry, intended to foster a 'free market.' Instead, it led to intense competition, many companies going out of business, and drivers quitting due to lower pay. Corporate lobby groups like the American Trucking Associations (ATA) then created a narrative of a 'driver shortage' in 1987, which has been perpetuated for decades. This narrative is false; there are plenty of people with CDLs, but companies don't want to pay them adequately, leading to high churn and retention problems, subsidized by taxpayers financing CDL schools.

The Motor Carrier Act of 1980 opened the market, leading to intense competition and business failures. The ATA claimed a need for 600,000 additional truckers by 1990, a narrative that has persisted despite a lack of actual shortage, instead reflecting a churn and retention issue.

There's a growing trend of replacing legacy American truckers (including white, Black, and Hispanic drivers) with foreign drivers, often from South Asia, who are refugees, asylum seekers, or illegal migrants. This is facilitated by suspicious or illegal issuance of CDLs in various states (e.g., Texas, Florida) and the waiver of English language proficiency enforcement for commercial drivers since 2016. Many of these drivers lack proper training and understanding of U.S. road signs and safety procedures.

Most truck stops now feature drivers speaking different languages, washing feet in sinks, and exhibiting 'weird cultural things.' Hundreds of thousands of CDLs have been issued illegally. The 1937 federal regulation requiring English proficiency was waived in 2016, leading to incidents like the Wolf Creek Pass crash where a driver couldn't read 'runaway truck ramp' signs.

The influx of unvetted foreign drivers is often part of a human smuggling operation (e.g., the 'Dunkey Route' from India) where migrants incur massive debt to smugglers. They are then exploited by trucking companies, often owned by co-ethnics, who offer minimal training and low pay. This exploitation, combined with a lack of English proficiency and proper training, leads to a significant increase in accidents and fatalities, with many foreign drivers dying on U.S. roads.

249 GoFundMe campaigns were found for Indian families trying to repatriate remains or pay medical bills for truck drivers killed in collisions. The 'Dunkey Route' facilitates migrants incurring $30,000+ debt to smugglers, then working for exploitative companies.

The trucking industry is riddled with corruption, including bribery at DMVs, illegal 'double brokering' of loads, and the proliferation of 'chameleon carriers' that shut down and reopen under new names to evade accountability for safety violations. Large corporations increasingly use a 'power only' model, subcontracting driving to these smaller, often foreign-owned, carriers to avoid direct employment costs and liabilities, effectively creating a 'skin suit' for American companies.

Texas and Florida are top states for suspicious CDL issuance. The 'power only' model, used by Amazon, J.B. Hunt, Knight-Swift, and Werner, relies on insourced labor. Companies like 'Hope Trans' with repeated violations simply re-register under new motor carrier numbers.

The compromised state of the trucking industry poses a direct national security threat. U.S. military freight and mail are being hauled by unvetted foreign carriers, often based overseas, using non-domiciled CDL drivers with poor safety records. Electronic Logging Devices (ELDs), mandated for safety, are easily subverted by foreign actors, allowing drivers to falsify hours and potentially transmitting sensitive military and logistical metadata overseas to unknown entities.

Military freight is being hauled by carriers from Moldova, Ukraine, India, and Russia, ignoring regulations against using brokers. The USPS uses overseas-based carriers with non-domiciled CDL drivers. ELDs can be 'backdoored' by offices in Serbia, and all data, including military move metadata, is leaving the country.