The State Department is suspending work visas for truck drivers

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us...mmercial-truck-drivers-rubio-says-2025-08-21/

 

Need to permenantly eliminate issuing those type visas altogether. Lives will be saved and truck driving jobs can be filled by American citizens. There's no need to import cheap labor.

 

Yeah, I saw that too. How do you justify something like this if that was your family? He was issued a CDL in California as an illegal alien? How can that be? As tragic as it is, I'd have to think the car driver should have seen the truck turning around and perhaps distracted? One thing for sure, it ain't never gonna stop,,,

 

You are the first one to make this point, and it's a fair one. While I am totally onboard with whatever means necessary to get the illegals off the road (and frankly, out of the country), we can't ignore the epidemic of distracted/unqualified/unsafe 4-wheelers clogging the highways. It needs to be addressed.

I'm not saying the driver of the minivan in this particular case was any of those things, but still... You have to wonder if they could have seen this coming.

 

There's no way this was on the car driver. Nobody expects a ####ing semi truck to just bust a u-turn on a major interstate. People are running 75-80mph how do you react to that?

 

Well, I can understand your frustration, but this lack of attention on the minivan drivers part was costly. It's part of driving, you better be prepared for something like this instead of willy nilly down the road trying to decide what's for dinner. Obviously it's the truck drivers fault, but I was taught to expect the unexpected, and why I have a 3 million mile PLUS, with no incidents. There wasn't even any evasive moves by the minivan, indicating they weren't paying attention. A heartfelt nod to the EMTs that have to clean up that mess. The REAL shame, is this is what it takes to get any action.

 

@201 Well you're a professional driver and you know to expect the unexpected. The motoring public isn't and most of them have probably never heard that phrase before nor given it any thought. They don't have the experience of truckers either. It just seems like you're excusing something inexcusable here by saying they could be to blame. I don't think so even if there was a distraction. Reasonable people don't expect such stupidity. And I mean also think about being in a car traveling 75mph and all of a sudden a slow truck maybe the length of a football field or less ahead of you does a u-turn... It won't matter that you're paying attention or not there's no way you can stop in time.

 

True, but the argument could be made that if they are running 75-80, they should be on high alert and ready to react to anything. especially when they come upon a slow vehicle or a vehicle on the shoulder. That's not something that requires special training or years of experience, that should just be common sense for every motorist. Again, I'm not trying to put any blame on the van driver in this case. Clearly the ILLEGAL truck driver/steering wheel holder gets all the blame on this one, but I think 4-wheelers overall need to do better, be held to a higher standard, and more traffic enforcement needs to happen.

I remember a couple years ago someone posted a dashcam video on some freeway where a light pole had fallen over onto the roadway. Several cars plowed right into it, completely oblivious. Then a pile up ensued, because no one was paying attention. Even with all the brake lights lit up, they all just kept hamming down right into the #### storm. The dash cam driver saw the mayhem and slowed down before he could even see what the problem was. I'll have to see if I can find that video, it was a good one.

Of course, no one should reasonably expect a random light pole to be laying in the road, but that doesn't mean it can't happen.

 

Companies don't want to pay for the things American drivers want-decent W-2 pay, insurance, vacation pay, 401-K etc. Foreign drivers are used to being treated like dirt and receiving no benefits and never questioning a company.