Ohio revokes CDLs for 1,200 foreign truck drivers

Who is going to drive our trucks? The beer isle was almost empty at our Walmart, you booze swizzling computer junkies okay with that? My brother went on a small trip to Ohio, he said on the interstate, all trucks were shut down, and 4 wheelers were getting off. He said, there was miles of a backup, and what he thought were hundreds of trucks. I didn't even mention the legality of the drivers, and they were checking something, but as a "regular" person, my brother had /has no idea of how many trucks are actually out there. Of course I'm all for the legality of the drivers, but we're not fixing the problem, making it worse in fact. Newsflash, illegal cowboys have been delivering your strawberries for years. I think we're going too far. Ready, aim, FIRE,,,I know I'm not the most popular one here, but as an old timer, you people in the future that are involved in this profession, are screwed. The legal ones don't want to drive, and we're ousting the ones that are driving our trucks. Anyone can see that's a recipe for disaster,,,let's watch,,,

 

No it’s not a problem…they’re not qualified and most likely not even legally allowed to have a cdl..

 

Well, it is a problem from where I sit, ( my kitchen table) and we're skirting the issue why these people are even here at all. It's because we don't want to do it, and companies are to blame for even putting them in a truck. It's kind of ironic how we've come full circle. When I was a younger man, (70s) we had a similar situation. With deregulation, there was so much freight to haul, ANYBODY could have a job trucking. Thing was, we weren't such a global society and all the drivers came from farms in the USA that were going under. Now we're in a similar situation. For the most part, folks from the US aren't doing these jobs and they need to be done. I agree wholeheartedly, these illegal people can't be here, it's a giant middle finger to those that abide by the rules, but think about it, where they are coming from, they have nothing to lose, and somehow get in the drivers seat. I look at it as it's ANOTHER 1200 drivers gone, and tip of the iceberg, I'm sure. So,,,back to my original question,,,who is going to drive our nations trucks? I'm telling ya', it's going to be the National Guard driving AM Generals pulling Swift trailers, because it will become that much of a national emergency.

 

I may be all alone on this -- but I think trucking capacity is tightening up (at least, in part) -- due to all the illegals/non-English/cereal box CDLs being rounded up/kicked out/deported.



-- L

 

Well, with rates skyrocketing to the moon and fuel costs crashing to historic lows, we will all become millionaires.

 

dang!!! you must be one of the few actually older than ME!!

I'm a 1953 model.

 

Ha! A '55, so lead on, brother! Not many can see "how it was", we're the minority here and certainly didn't have the issues that face our society today. Perhaps why I'm such an outcast, I have a lot to be crabby about. It may seem hard to believe, but I loved this industry. You did what had to be done and felt good about it once you got that load hauled. Today, I'm not even sure how it works, seems the biggest concern is where to park for all those hours. We had a different approach, you didn't make any money sleeping, and we ran hard. Thing was, we had enough common sense to know when to pull over, and didn't run into stopped traffic looking at a screen. Drivers today couldn't do the job we did, just like I couldn't do their job today. It's actually kind of interesting wondering how all this will play out. Thanks for the shout, pal.

 

It's complete BS that "people here don't want the work or won't do it". There's probably several hundred thousand qualified American CDL holders who work in other industries because busting your *** out here OTR for $50,000 or $60,000 or $75,000 is a frikken joke. It's cheap and drivers also get treated like dirt. But for somebody who doesnt speak english and recently came here from Somalia (or wherever) those prevailing low wages are like gold and they will put up with any abuse. Get rid of the people wrongfully being exploited due to nothing other than pure greed and the market will solve the problem. It already is.