How & Why

I may be wrong but I think many are 2nd generation Russian or Ukrainians or whatever. Educated in the U.S. but instilled with the parents idea of what it took to get ahead in the old country.

 

Some bad trucking companies can go out of business one day and reopen under different name very fast. That’s my understanding how some do it.

 

The work visa stuff is all bypassed if you own a small business .

that’s why all the people from India lease motels and being their families and cousins etc over to work there .

same with middle eastern people leasing a gas station and bringing all their family over to work there .

and I assume the same with trucks . If they do the lease thing with a truck they bypass the work visa .


And that’s just the legal ones .
In the US there is literally no punishment for being caught here illegally .

IF you ever do get caught , you MIGHT get deported but usually not .

There are so many stories on here of people getting money stolen by Russian trucking companies , and by people on the US saying russian , they mean Russia, Ukraine , Bulgaria etc , all the former Soviet Union places , to Americans , anyone from a former Soviet republic are Russians .

Almost everyone who posts on here and says they are from Europe are actually from Eastern Europe , east of the Berlin Wall , but never wants to say where they are actually from , I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a post from someone from western Europe , like Germany , Italy , France , UK, or Northern Europe like Netherlands Scandinavian etc

 

Same reason car salesmen convince people to sign the dotted line on 20% APR. Its doable as long as things go perfectly. But then the AC unit in their home goes out, they need 1300 to get it fixed, bank account is empty because they've been overpaying on the car all along, and now they're selling it before its paid off with no equity and ending in a worse place than they started. But, there's always the chance it'll go perfectly and they'll come out on the other end, although probably in a worse spot than if they waited a few years and did it the right way. Lease purchase is the same way -- odds and contract aren't in driver's favor, but there's just barely enough hope to catch out impulsive people that need it now. They'll find the 5% of LP's sharing their success stories and use it as fuel to ignore the 95%. No one would play those odds at a casino, but somehow they do on a multi year contract.

As far as Russians, there are a lot fewer than eastern Europeans. During war times a few decades ago, a lot of Eastern Europeans came over as refugees and it was with good reason. If you don't already know about it, it's pretty interesting history. I live in a Hotspot for Bosnian refugees and trucking is the number 1 industry for them here. A lot of the 1099 and shady business is just people getting in over their heads and following the lead of the wrong people here. They understandably want out of low paying Kentucky jobs, hear about their buddy's success in trucking (through shady practices), and then set up a half-***ed business plan with the same practices. Now their competing with all the other shady companies for the same cheap freight and just driving each other into the ground. In a nice way of putting it, it's a very 'cut throat' culture and that means everyone gets shafted before the owner does. Drivers, brokers, mechanics, etc. Same for any other Hotspot, such as St. Louis and Chicago.

 

I will say Eastern Europeans know how to save a penny. You don't know harsh and hard headed until you hear them with a broker, negotiating repair costs, etc. It's probably not good long term business practice, but they make it work. Pretty entertaining lol. And I will say most eastern Europeans can speak and read English well. It might be with an accent, but 99% of them where I live do just fine. It's pretty hard to live day to day in Kentucky or Missouri and not know a good amount of English lol. Kentucky isn't known for its diversity