I don't understand exactly

This is not a thread to bash foreigners. This is not my purpose and please do not post if you just want to criticize Volvo's and jogging suits.

What I don't understand is how many O/O's or independent operators who are foreigners. Obviously they got their experience out of country. But where do they get their funding for their authority, truck payments, etc.? It seems hard enough for an American citizen to go through all this and become an O/O.

It just seems kind of ironic that all the new American truckers are puttering around in slow mega-company trucks while the foreigners go zooming by, coast to coast. There seems to be more and more. Uzbek Express, Punjab On Time, Baltic Carriers.

Again, I don't have anything against these drivers if they are here legally and don't pump up cheap freight. I just wonder how they're getting all this funding, apparently. It used to be that new immigrants qualified for business loans to help them get started. I don't know if this is still the case. That's my only guess.

 

Probably right about the taxes and several pitching in. A lot of them are more resourceful and look to be in better physical shape than a lot of American drivers.

This should be a wake up call for American drivers, as if there weren't enough signs already.

 

That link is to the second page of the article. You have to go to the first page.

It's not from the U.S. or American banks, the immigrants form their own "loan clubs." The interest is very high and sometimes they get ripped off, but seems to work pretty well for most. I would imagine there is a kind of wild west approach to punishing those who don't meet their obligations in these clubs.

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http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,967966-1,00.html

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