By "more immigrant drivers", I assume you are referring to illegal hispanics. Have read your post history and believe that you are a good guy, so this rant is not directed at you, however, you did hit a sore spot......I have had my own, small (5-10 employees) construction business for 30 years and made a decent living, until the last few years. Each year it gets harder to compete with the cheapskate, slap it up and get the money (even if it falls apart next year) builders who use the ******** cut throat, south of OUR border illegal mother******* to slap it up..........I have no problem with someone trying to better themselves and make a living for their family, but Mexico and Mexicans HAVE driven their country into the ground and now our great leaders are on the very brink of allowing them to do the same to us.........I have never thought of myself as a racist and not sure I do now. To be fair, guess OUR politicians are more to blame than anyone..........

Just curious, how do you know the competition is using illegal immigrants ?

Or are we supposed to lump all Spanish speakers together in one big pile?

From your comments, I would seriously consider you begin to actually "think of myself as a racist".

Nothing I say would have an impact on you, Ronno. Have read enough of your posts to realize that. One dimensional comes to mind......God forbid, you ever find yourself in Northwest Arkansas, let me know. I will show you........

You're kidding right?
Here in AZ, as soon as the law that required employers to verify employees and punish those who didn't took affect, a LOT of construction companies shrank in size very fast.

This happened just as the housing bubble burst here, so it wasn't noticed by many outside the business.

I visit the area several times a year. I find the most annoying thing I see are the University of Arkansas sports fans.

So anyone who does not speak English 100% of the time is automatically an illegal alien?

I wonder if you have a problem with the Chinese guys in the kitchen of the Chinese restaurant speaking Mandarin, or are they to be considered illegal as well?

Profile much?

not really thunking of illegals - but more like what has happened to containers in chicago -

a bunch of LEGAL russian / slavs willing to work for 9 bucks an hour.

If you were a business owner, would you pay a higher wage if you had to, or would you get the best return on your money?

If the cargo arrives safely for 9 bucks an hour, why pay more?

problem is - the number of uninsured russian "owner ops" and guys who have had no formal training is growing - and accidents not only in the yards - but on the streets has also gone up...

Obviously the number of accidents has not reached a point where shippers have said "#### those Russians, my freight is getting destroyed".

So the economics of using cheaper labor is still in the shippers favor.