First thing I thought when I saw this. The AI Slop really distracts from the headline and undermines the integrity of the source. Let's say I own a news outlet and need a generic image for an article. Sure, I might use AI, but I'm at least going to choose one that looks sane. Or, and hear me out. Spend 30 seconds in photoshop cleaning it up.

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Kashmir79@reddit

I think the “Trump does a controversial thing” headline really undermines the integrity more. These are actions by the State Department pursuant to an investigation by US DOT. Sources that get their clicks from rage bait and Trump porn headlines should be automatically considered suspect until proven otherwise.

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RamonaLittle@reddit

Or, hear me out . . . pay a photographer to take a photo.

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distractionfactory@reddit

That kind of thinking went out of style a decade ago, in 2024.

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RamonaLittle@reddit

Reputable news outlets do pay photographers, or at least license photos from a reputable library like AP.

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WloveW@reddit

Maybe they were trying to be ironic and showing what a crash move it's gonna be? like driving the wrong way on the freeway?

No, I don't think there are that many layers to these people.

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Sudden_Hovercraft_56@reddit

Or use one of the billions of royalty free stock images. I am sure there is at least 1 of a truck.

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big_roomba@reddit

hey now, have you considered that maybe theres no real photos of a semi on the highway?

edit - shit, there are. nevermind.

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ptear@reddit

I've seen a person take one before.

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Haniel113@reddit

I almost thought I was on r/trucksim LOL.

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biscuts99@reddit

Yes. There are no photos of semi trucks on the entire internet.

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RazzleStorm@reddit

Listen, if you don’t like half-sized road signs in the middle of a forest and trucks driving the wrong way, you’re un-American.

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MotherPotential@reddit

I didn’t notice the ai thing until you pointed it out. I guess the road uniformity struck me aside from the sign thing

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HammerofBonking@reddit

I detest Trump but trucking visas are no different to me than excessive H1B visas to depress wages in other areas. If anything, we need significantly more stringent requirements for obtaining a CDL, as well as higher wages for drivers.

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Belezibub@reddit

The thing is though truckers are in huge demand, my parents own a trucking company and it’s a pain in the ass to replace people and they make bank.

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Ne4143@reddit

So this will most likely be reversed by Monday.

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Proletariat-Prince@reddit

True, and there's a discussion to be had there, but classic trump overreaction is not the answer.

Changes like this need to be rolled out over time so we can replace those drivers. You can't hire and train thousands of drivers overnight.

Sure, he's on the right track here, but this is the most "dumb guy" reactionary solution to capitalize on the xenophobia of it all, not to actually make positive change for drivers.

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scothc@reddit

There are too many drivers right now, regardless of citizenship status. Rates have been garbage since the covid surge, and MC's have been dying in droves every since

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Proletariat-Prince@reddit

Maybe. I'm not an expert in the field. I just know that big changes, done fast, usually come with unexpected consequences.

We shouldn't be reckless with this kind of thing.

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RoddyDost@reddit

100%

I’m not sure about the rest of the country but here in Florida the quality of driving from truckers has been getting absolutely atrocious since COVID. In large part it’s due to lax requirements for obtaining a CDL, including I guess issuing them to people who can’t even speak English. It’s so easy to kill someone when you’re behind the wheel of an 18 wheeler. It’s a tough job that deserves strict licensing requirements and fair compensation.

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NoTerm3078@reddit

I detest Trump but trucking visas are no different to me than excessive H1B visas to depress wages in other areas. If anything, we need significantly more stringent requirements for obtaining a CDL, as well as higher wages for drivers.

Sure, I gotta agree. I'm more thinking of a cost of goods increase coming from this than a supply chain struggle due to lack of drivers. There will be drivers, they will just get paid more. And if that's their fair value, then it just is. We should be paying drivers what they deserve. We also shouldn't be taking advantage of immigrants, of any status, by underpaying them cause they don't speak English as a first language or have the right papers. People are skipping that part. If we as a whole are underpaying these people, that's exploitative.

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Desperate_Damage4632@reddit

More inflation.

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Amlethvshamlet@reddit

100% agree. 3 out of 4 employees under 30 in my tech related office job are H1B visa holders. There’s no argument that can be made to support this practice. Unless of course you’re willing to admit it’s wage suppression.

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Celevra75@reddit

Theirs no baby in this bathwater. Ban all truckers, one crashed so they are clearly terrible for everyone!

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Icy_Capital7175@reddit

Truck driver here: part of the reason I left the industry after my first three years was I learned the ins and outs of how logistics work?

Best case scenario you’re an owner operator and you have a operating cost of about last time I checked $2.40 a mile that’s to make it worthwhile for a family man to go out over the road and pay all their expenses insurance maintenance fuel truck payment, trailer payment, etc.

So for your average American, they need to be making that much to be living a comfortable life

Now you have imported visa workers who are making five dollars a day working 15 hours a day in their country coming over to make two potentially 3 to 400 a day which is a come up from their perspective

So in that regard, they are winning

Not to mention they’re in a new freightliner, cruising in America like that’s a huge come up in a lot of places

The downside is, American workers are grossly undercut

An American in a modest city trying to provide for his wife and four children cannot compete with the wages that these guys make

So it’s not that there’s a driver gap necessarily as much as there is a pay gap

And it shouldn’t come as a shock that what you buy is what you get

I can tell you firsthand, you can offer me $1 million a year to drive in Russia because I am not familiar with the layout of the land nor the dialect of Russian street signs

Personally, I feel that I would be putting everybody’s life at risk as a driver and a foreign country with a totally different dialect

Our politicians, lobbyist, and big corporations have done what they’ve always done since the 70s and sold out the American people for profit

We are the commodity that is exploited and ultimately betrayed for profit

Granted, I have met truckers on the Pacific Northwest who work a 9 to 5 their home every night and they pull 150 K a year

That is far and few between

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Special_Disaster_844@reddit

Good. But they need to pursue the companies hiring these guys with bs credentials.

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acrowdintheface@reddit

I've been a commercial driver for 20+ years and this is a good thing. The reason the industry is throwing a fit is because a lot of these foreign drivers will work for peanuts. Theyre dangerous on the road and put too many people at risk. Besides most of them lack common courtesy and drive like assholes i.e. playing leapfrog in the hills causing long backups doing the 1mph snail races yp the hill instead of dropping a gear and maintaining the flow of traffic.

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justforTW@reddit

If they are banning truckers who can’t speak English doesn’t it make sense to also ban people who can’t read or write?

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Liber_Vir@reddit

They aren't banning them, english literacy has ALWAYS been a requirement for CDLs in the US. They are simply starting to enforce it.

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WardenWolf@reddit

Now if only they'd make that law for ALL driver licenses.

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SharkOnGames@reddit

It's amazing to me how many people get upset about the government enforcing laws that already exist, use to be enforced, and have saved lives in the past.

It's quite literally about saving lives...and people get upset about store shelves being less full for a couple of weeks while things get sorted.

Why do people put such low value on saving lives? It's weird.

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Smart-Struggle-6927@reddit

This isn't why people are upset, you're just very stupid.

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SharkOnGames@reddit

5 seconds of Google search proves you wrong.

CDLs were given out to many illegal immigrants grants.

You can say otherwuse, but it makes you wrong, not me.

Look it up yourself.

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Liber_Vir@reddit

Nobody cares about death unless it effects them personally, but a delay in getting their new crap from china always effects them personally immediately.

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FreakishlyNarrow@reddit

We survived not having instant access to chinese junk during covid, we'll live through this too.

Every comment you make on this thread is just full of poorly camouflaged bigotry.

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SharkOnGames@reddit

By your standards we have to call ALL US made products exceptional? Or can we admit that some things are junk when made in certain countries? It's not bigotry, it's factual.

There's entire studies done on what happened to quality of our products (longevity, etc) when we outsourced US manufacturing. Hint: It got really bad.

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therapistofcats@reddit

Where in the law does it say if one trucker gets in an accident we freeze all trucker visas? Hell, this guy didn't even have a visa. Trump should resign. He let this guy in. He let the accident happen on his watch. We should hold our highest leaders accountable, why do we put such a low value on saving lives? Remember during COVID when people wouldn't wear masks because lives were of little value?

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Contralogic@reddit

Enforcement is the wrong word here .

Blantly attacking the livelihood of 18% of trucking work force and the Americans who depend on their goods .

Enforcement would mean a structurally test applied across the trucking industry with effective spot checks. Going after those with visas has other motivations.

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Liber_Vir@reddit

Effective spot checks like giving them tests when they pull into scalehouses for permitting checks? Stuff like that?

That's exactly what they're doing, but as an institution the trucking industry is in deep need of reforms from top to bottom.

As an example they revoked the dot number of the company of the most recent incident in florida that pulled the illegal u turn.

Which does absolutely nothing.

If that company follows the same trends as the others follow they already have a backup MC/USDOT number gaining age and in approximately 30 days they will take their door stickers off the trucks, put new ones on, and continue to operate under a new name as if nothing changed.

Aside from extra dot numbers gaining age some companies already operate multiple LLCs just in case. Instead of 150 trucks under one company they spread them out by 20s or 50s. Depending on how much they can tolerate to lose if shit hits the fan.

The trucking industry in this country is in dire need of rework, because as it stands now its a giant game of "fuck american drivers". That goes for truckers and four wheelers both. Even back when I was driving they'd pay $500 to a team of mexican lumpers to unload the truck no questions asked, but they would expect me, as the driver, to do it for free, more often than not downstacking the pallets as the warehouse demanded.

"What do you mean free?"

As drivers' were paid by the mile. If the wheels ain't spinning, we ain't getting shit, or if they do pay its some stupid nominal amount like $40.

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Contralogic@reddit

Thank you for sharing . Totally understand your point regarding unloading/$40. The drivers we use don't have that responsibility, they are mainly ltl and ftl long distance.

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Ricky_Ventura@reddit

They already do. English tests are mandatory already.

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justforTW@reddit

Most states have alternatives to reading and writing.

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Smart-Struggle-6927@reddit

Which ones bud? Note: I got my CDL in two states due to letting it lapse once, so which states have that? Come on now, since you know it right?

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VirtualDoll@reddit

The alternative: looking the other way

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Ricky_Ventura@reddit

Not really relevant considering interstate commerce is exclusively controlled and enforced by the FBI through Congress.

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Desperate_Damage4632@reddit

They're banning ALL visas, not just the unqualified. They could have just as easily made more strenuous requirements.

This is a typical Republican response. Instead of being thoughtful and precise, just break everything.

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SlumLordOfTheFlies@reddit

We don’t need an economy built on the backs of illegals and another poorly paid immigrants. If paying an American a decent wage to drive the truck makes cheap Chinese crap too expensive then idiots who spend all day watching the shopping channel need to find something new to do.

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Desperate_Damage4632@reddit

The average American has barely any savings so apparently you do need all that.

Why do you think the country has been successful? American Grit? Nope. Cheap labor, cheap stuff. Country built by immigrants.

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SlumLordOfTheFlies@reddit

If cheap Labor was the key to success, Mexico would be an amazing place.

Abundant energy and a good education system is what we should focus on. Not importing a bunch of slaves who get abused by their employers.

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Desperate_Damage4632@reddit

Latin America is not successful because their resources were stolen and their governments were corrupted by Europe and the US.

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Jayne_Dough_@reddit

Like from serving in public office or…?

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RachaelsBean@reddit

They should ban them too. I’m sick of these morons.

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a_futhy@reddit

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kaminabis@reddit

Theres a big discussion in Québec about this, since they first talked about banning visas for truckers who couldnt speak good english.

Theres a lot of french truckers in Québec who arent bilangual.

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philthewiz@reddit

I hope those same truckers that were part of the convoy during the pandemic will acknowledge this insanity and apply the same amount of outrage as the Ottawa siege.

Oh wait! They won't care because they drank Trump's koolaid!

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Liber_Vir@reddit

Trump had nothing to do with this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humboldt_Broncos_bus_crash

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FreakishlyNarrow@reddit

And that has what to do with anything other than it being a truck involved in a wreck?

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Liber_Vir@reddit

Besides revealing you're too lazy to use google?

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5117wnl812o

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FreakishlyNarrow@reddit

Oh... Xenophobia, got it.

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Liber_Vir@reddit

Deporting people for gross negligence resulting in mass murder makes someone a xenophobe. Got it.

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Raygaholic420@reddit

Where's your family from? And if you're not native you should shut the fuck up. You are the descendant of an immigrant. Good lord you people are thick as fuck.

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FreakishlyNarrow@reddit

Not what I said. I don't know why I'm bothering to explain this to you, but you posted it to someone making a comment about the trucker convoy/protest in Canada during COVID. The only connection between your comment and the rest of this thread is just "immigrants bad" which is basically the definition of xenophobia.

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Liber_Vir@reddit

Nah, UNQUALIFIED immigrants bad. Which seems to be the part you're skipping over.

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randomheromonkey@reddit

This is completely unrelated and as soon as you got called a xenophobe you moved the goal posts and called it corporate greed. Sad.

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Liber_Vir@reddit

I called it greed and corruption over two hours ago right here. I have been utterly consistent. Now stop trying to convict me with assumptions inside your mind based on things I have not said.

https://www.reddit.com/r/PrepperIntel/comments/1mx5pg9/comment/na3wn66/?context=3

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big_roomba@reddit

their choice of saying "murder" there says a lot

even if the driver was entirely at fault while being negligent as it appears, thats not what murder is

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Strange-Ad2470@reddit

It won’t cripple nothing. We have an oversupply of trucks in the market. And the warehouses are packed to the gills! Please panic buy.. business is slow. Scaled for a Global economy slowed by a trade war in under a year :(

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ImSirius678@reddit

But w8 I thought protesting mandated injections was an absolute unforgivable outrage, and those who did it deserved to have all their assets frozen, to be tarred and feathered, and to be openly shot (with needles to vaxxinate them of course) in the street? Was that not the case for those monsters? I must be misremembering and surely it doesn’t point out hypocrisy that “both sides” constantly display. When my guy does it he’s wonderful when your guy does it he’s a baddie

Couldn’t be that we’re all gullible misled peons waiting on daddy (or mommy) gubmint to save us no definitely not that. Hmm

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EarlGreyAllDay6969@reddit

As an Ottawa resident that experienced the occupation, they were mostly not truckers.

The trucker Union even disavowed them. There were a few owner-operator truckers there but most people were just unemployed rural folks.

I hold no I'll will towards truckers in general and don't really like associating the convoy with them.

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spinningcolours@reddit

They will keep blaming Trudeau.

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AlessaGillespie86@reddit

In the US you have to be able to at least speak/understand enough English to read and adhere to signs, per the FMCSA

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Cane607@reddit

Trump stupidity is a black hole, everything gets sucked into it and nothing escapes it.

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Pitiful-MobileGamer@reddit

A lot of lumber supplying truckers out of Quebec don't speak strong English. Huge lumber mills in Quebec supply a lot of the Eastern seaboard

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Canukian84@reddit

Theres also a lot of truckers in canada that can speak neither well enough to be licensed, but they buy them from a diploma mill... so?

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EarlGreyAllDay6969@reddit

That's not how trucking licensing works in Canada.

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Canukian84@reddit

Thats not how trucking licensing SHOULD work in Canada, but alas here we are.

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tarnishedbutgrand@reddit

Unfortunately they are not entirely wrong.

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SisyphusCoffeeBreak@reddit

I read this comment in a Québec accent.

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ThatGamerMoshpit@reddit

That’s an easy and reasonable fix though as it is a national language

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JimmyKorr@reddit

Trucker-mills are a problem. Undertrained drivers being put behind the wheel should be curbed.

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BabushkaRaditz@reddit

Trump- blows us all up

Apologist- well you see there IS a problem with our society 🤷🤷

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Rods-from-God@reddit

That’s not what they’re saying/ doing.

Trucker mills are not just bad for workers, they’re a danger to the public. They maximize hours, force newbie drivers onto insane routes, offer bare minimum for training, and pay next to nothing.

They’ve got such a bad reputation that it’s literally a joke-

“Just Barely Hired Usually Not Trained”

“Sure Wish I Finished Training”

etc

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Smart-Struggle-6927@reddit

tl;dr- putting an end to immigrant truckers isn’t going to stop these wrecks from happening because the exploitation built into the system to take advantage of workers creates an environment ripe for collisions.

Exactly, if you want quality work, you have to pay for quality work. JB Hunt and SWIFT refuse to pay living wages, they are the reason 70% of truckers quit in 6 months. SWIFT has a pass thru rate nearly as high as Amazons.

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Capable_Plastic_3400@reddit

mega carriers, like swift, entire business model is bringing in new cdl holders to work 6 months to a year for slave wages since they self insure. once a driver has a year or two of experience their job prospects open up once their able to be insured by smaller carriers that are able to pay better. they are starter companies for a reason.

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Liber_Vir@reddit

Turnover rate in the trucking industry is something like 70% in the first six months. That ain't because 70% of the people they hire are bad. It don't help though. Trucking as a whole has been rotten for a good 40 years, and this is just exposing it to the public.

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JimmyKorr@reddit

Guy, thats not really the point.

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philthewiz@reddit

What is your point?

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JimmyKorr@reddit

that the trucking industry is becoming dangerous from deregulation because the owners want to exploit discount foreign labor and are hustling them through “training” onto the streets. This will curb that.

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winterbird@reddit

No, it won't. Removing a portion of the workforce will only lead to more of less qualified workers doing the job, because the pool of people to hire got smaller.

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JimmyKorr@reddit

or…the existing population wont be as easy to exploit. Returning the balance if power to labor is always good.

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philthewiz@reddit

Just like removing farm and construction workers with ICE? Will it fix it by destroying the economy?

Isn't there a more efficient way of doing it?

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JimmyKorr@reddit

There is a way of doing it through enforcement of regulations. Im not deluded enough to think this isnt anything but stock maga racist bullshit, but there is a problem in trucking that this could address inadvertantly.

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philthewiz@reddit

I agree with this. It just wasn't clear enough in your first statement.

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JimmyKorr@reddit

fair enough

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ReturnoftheSnek@reddit

Redditor only knows hyperbole to justify bad takes. Up next, the weather

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BabushkaRaditz@reddit

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GabRB26DETT@reddit

Genuine problem in Ontario, Canada. It's been crash after crash of semi's.

Drivers end up not licensed and not legally allowed to work in the country. They get arrested and released until their court date.

What do you think they do ? They take a flight and disappear after causing damages and deaths. It's fucking frustrating

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SHY_TUCKER@reddit

[Citation Needed]

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Lord_Baconz@reddit

You know it’s gotten out of hand when even the CBC does a documentary exposing it.

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esweet101@reddit

That's true, but this action does not solve that problem.

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profmathers@reddit

If I were a hostile foreign power with control of 2.5 branches of the US federal government, I struggle to think what I’d do differently. It’s being held together by the tension between competing forces of corruption right now.

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CharmingMechanic2473@reddit

The point is to get the USA people “so low”that we turn on each other. Like the defeated masses after WW1 ended. People had no fight left in them.

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Anarchist-monk@reddit

Does this effect H2A drivers?

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Quiet_Artichoke_706@reddit

Headline: ‘Old Man Waves Tiny Fists in Air Over Traffic in His Neighborhood’

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Commandmanda@reddit

You have no idea how many DOT certifications we did at my urgent care clinic that involved people who could not speak English.

They were Russian, Mexican, Venezuelan, Peruvian, Albanian, German....

No doubt all of them were here with Valid Work Visas.

I'd estimate 1/2 were Visa workers, in Florida. Yes, this is going to screw up our shipping big time.

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SlumLordOfTheFlies@reddit

Wow, if only there were Americans who knew how to drive.

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Commandmanda@reddit

Or wanted to do it for a living.

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Smart-Struggle-6927@reddit

Then the companies can pay a living wage.

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Commandmanda@reddit

They should.

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SlumLordOfTheFlies@reddit

Then they need to pay more, it’s not complicated.

Maybe if they paid $100,000 a year you’d be a truck driver and the illegals who don’t speak English can work at urgent care.

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Commandmanda@reddit

I hate driving. and rude, mannnnnn.....!!!

What I understand is that they make very decent wages. It's the long hours and distances (days from home) that keep people from doing it.

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Smart-Struggle-6927@reddit

If your urgent care was commiting literal fraud and you let that occur, sure seems like you're the guilty one here not the immigrants.

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Commandmanda@reddit

Oh, dear. Where to start: It is up to the DMV to decide if an immigrant is capable of translating English language road signs.

Still, my medical coworkers often commented amongst themselves that they believed a driver should be fluent in English.

An Urgent Care is in charge of making sure the driver can see and has health good enough to drive what essentially is a deadly weapon down our highways and byways.

I can assure you, we saw more White, elderly, hypertensive, overweight drivers than we cared to discuss, ones with obvious back trauma from years of sitting (with occasional opioid addiction related to it), and possible PTSD from dealing with other careless drivers.

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HungryHypocrite135@reddit

Too bad. Here I am not driving. Took a couple years off to get healthier. 24 years OTR.

Can't get an offer better than $0.65 a mile.

Tough shit.

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ThatBaseball7433@reddit

I can’t figure out the low rates getting paid. Doesn’t even break even for gas and time, how do they make sense? Why do people take these loads?

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ImNotKitten@reddit

Because there are 400k illegal aliens with CDL's that will do the work for cheaper and live in their sleeper trucks.

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thefrankyg@reddit

How is an undocumented immigrants getting a CDL?

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ImNotKitten@reddit

States like California are giving them. Media not covering important shit. Look up Harjinder Singh

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Smart-Struggle-6927@reddit

I'm not saying it doesn't happen, I'm saying no way is it 400k, and the only people dumb enough to believe that don't work in the industry.

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ImNotKitten@reddit

I work in the industry but okay. These are numbers from DOT

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Smart-Struggle-6927@reddit

I've worked in the industry as well, and no they aren't. You're a consistent poster in conservative, basically everything you say can be ignored because you openly lie. You're literally saying it's the democrats fault for not releasing the epstein list when all the democrats voted to release it and all the conservatives(like you) voted to protect the pedophile. Nobody should listen to anything you say because you protect pedophiles.

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ImNotKitten@reddit

Lol okay

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threewhitelights@reddit

Just looked him up. He had a visa after requesting asylum. The only people claiming he was illegal at the time of the accident are the people latching on to this as a shock piece, and you fell for it.

If you're gunna complain about the media, at least follow sources that don't make shit up.

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RachaelsBean@reddit

It’s all illegal morons like this story who take the jobs that pay nothing.

Deport their asses. Stop letting them in as well. Maybe then we can have some real professionals trucking again.

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Smart-Struggle-6927@reddit

This isn't true, and the only people dumb enough to believe it are gullible dumbasses incapable of understanding basic facts, and don't work in the industry.

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Jayne_Dough_@reddit

Says the lot lizard.

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HungryHypocrite135@reddit

That is for a company driver rate. The companies are probably bidding 3-4$ a mile for contract loads.

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Smart-Struggle-6927@reddit

True but go look at any load board and you'll see tons that are even with fuel cost without factoring in anything else.

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ThatBaseball7433@reddit

.65 is but if you look at the load boards you’ll see many under gas cost.

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Smart_Yogurt_989@reddit

Sounds like an easy decision.

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ThatBaseball7433@reddit

Sort of, you can just bid yourself out of a job. I just don’t know why people are taking loads that don’t break even. Are they getting subsidized by someone? If so, who?

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Smart-Struggle-6927@reddit

Yup, I'd drive in a heartbeat if the rates were good enough, they're not. Fuck em, let em fold until they start paying what we're worth. I have my CDL, did OTR for 2 years, was a firefighter for 15, willing to go back to work once they're willing to match the pay I was getting in the bakken hauling fracking stuff where I had great insurance, good pay, never left my area and had a comfortable(not rich, but never struggled) life. I don't want much, just to be able to afford to buy a house again eventually, enough food for me and mine, and new cloths whenever needed with a vacation every year.

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Pontiacsentinel@reddit

In US GSA rate is .70, sheeet.

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Cpt_sneakmouse@reddit

This. They want to keep the industry a dumpster fire but don't like the quality of people that are willing to accept that. Fuck em.

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monos_muertos@reddit

That's exactly what I get between job sites and I'm not even a trucker or courier.

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ProtestedGyro@reddit

Translation: We will cripple the supply chain because we can't bring in an exploitable work force.

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Shrewta@reddit

I have an idea for ya that will blow your mind. We keep the supply chains and end the exploitation. It's really that easy, but it's never about exploitation for you, is it?

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Smart-Struggle-6927@reddit

It is, but it would require US Companies to pay truckers wages that they refuse to pay because it would cut into shareholder profit, and republicans never want to address that, they just want slave labor done by US citizens.

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s1gnalZer0@reddit

How, specifically, are we going to keep supply chains running after suddenly removing a bunch of truck drivers? It's not like there are people yearning for the driver's seat, especially when pay is shit and so many trucking companies are running predatory truck lease/financing schemes.

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SlumLordOfTheFlies@reddit

I guess maybe we all need to pay a little more for stuff to avoid getting killed on the highway by an unqualified truck driver

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s1gnalZer0@reddit

God knows these companies won't accept lower profits in the name of safety.

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spinningcolours@reddit

Well, with all the tariffs, nobody’s buying anything anyways. It’s a win man.

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helluvastorm@reddit

True that, not thinking the shelves will be emptied quickly

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ProtestedGyro@reddit

Is that "you" a "royal you" or a "you" directed at me?

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Ebscriptwalker@reddit

Actually it's a royal ewe, but i prefer to be called the queen sheep.

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ProtestedGyro@reddit

Bah ram ewe. Sheep be true.

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RachaelsBean@reddit

It’s not going to cripple it. And what, you really advocate we keep letting these literal braindead morons continue to operate 18 wheelers? Gtfo

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ProtestedGyro@reddit

Hey! Do me a favor just real quick and let me know where in my comment I advocated for that. Just give it another read and tell me how you extracted that information. Thank you for your attention on this matter.

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Guvnah-Wyze@reddit

I hate this. My mom was killed by a locally born, white, truck driver. 2 years later and man's still driving, no charge, nothing. Brown guy kills, and suddenly people care about trucker vetting because foreigners can't drive.

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Smart-Struggle-6927@reddit

I mean, Uvalde cops let 20 kids die while 360 cops sat outside listening to him killing children and did nothing.

A guy that overstayed a visa(maybe? truth isn't really out there yet, conflicting reports) kills 3 ppl and Trump bans all immigrants from driving trucks. Interesting where the GOP's heart lies, never with dead children, always "whatever we can do to hurt anyone that immigrated here".

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No_Emotion7308@reddit

If you don't understand the difference between that and this, then you're so ignorant.

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FreakishlyNarrow@reddit

They did understand it, they put it in their comment... The administration and many of it's followers believe brown people bad, white people good

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No_Emotion7308@reddit

You're a dumbass too like the person I was commenting.

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Guvnah-Wyze@reddit

Nah, you're just racist

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sweetDickWillie0007@reddit

Trump will cripple economies and then get tossed out of office because he’s an idiot

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sweetDickWillie0007@reddit

Cool. I don’t give a shit

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Excellent_Set_232@reddit

It really felt like the video of that crash was getting pushed more than usual, and now I see why.

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Smart-Struggle-6927@reddit

Ya, 360 cops let 20 kids die while they sat outside and listened to the dude shooting them doing nothing, but this crash that killed 3? Action, change immediately....makes ya think huh?

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joejacksonsbelt@reddit

It's the type of reaction you'd expect to see to something like a school shooting. Action and change.

Strange world.

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screenmonkey@reddit

Meanwhile a J6 terrorist that was pardoned killed an innocent woman in a DUI and it's barely talked about, let alone acting as an excuse to punish all of them.

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ludixst@reddit

It's ok if you're Republican.

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MinistryOfCoup-th@reddit

Exactly. Biden was blamed for that Linkin Riley chick getting murdered but this driver guy came into the US in 2018 and Republicans are saying that Newsome should be held accountable.

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Smart-Struggle-6927@reddit

That makes me laugh so hard, he came in under Trump, was granted asylum under Trump from a federal agency. How the fuck is that Gavin Newsoms fault unless you're an absolute braindead moron.

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skintastegood@reddit

That's the entire plan to collapse everything

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DanielGoon69@reddit

It means a lot of Ukrainian refugees may get deported back to their war torn nation, too....

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a-z_youwish@reddit

Hope they can start looking for different employment

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arthurb09@reddit

Order 66

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dicktits143@reddit

MAGA!!!!! So much better!!!!

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According-Insect-992@reddit

It makes me laugh that there are still people who don't realize that the goal is to destroy the United States.

Americans have got to be the dumbest people in history.

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Acrobatic-Cheetah230@reddit

one might wonder... why

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xustos@reddit

Pffffft Trudeau

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No-Subject-5096@reddit

Trump could care less about safety

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EgoistHedonist@reddit

Most of European countries also completely stopped package deliveries to US this week, because the sender needs to pay the tariffs, and there's no system in place, or any information on how to do that. This will cause some major problems in the coming weeks

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Huckleberry_83@reddit

I managed to get a last few orders in with my favorite suppliers from Europe before the shutdown.

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iamcamouflage@reddit

He is actively trying to crash the economy.

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Successful-Memory839@reddit

Australia ran out of AdBlue for a few weeks and it nearly crippled our country. Taking actual drivers off the road, lol fucken good luck with that.

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bohemianprime@reddit

I assume that anything that could hurt the US is done through Trump by putin.

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Cultural-Company282@reddit

This is Trump paying off the Teamsters for their support. He's been looking for a reason to cut the trucking visas, and he found one. The union truckers want to cut out the international drivers so they can jack up shipping rates. The consumer pays in the end.

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kaminabis@reddit

Supplied* i guess

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Pitiful-MobileGamer@reddit

Those with dubious records, dubious immigration status, and those carriers that hire them.

There is a shit ton of undesirable freight, that is vital to the functioning of our modern economy. This low paying, dirty, smelly, freight maybe the component issues to a larger product supply chain.

Good old-fashioned red blooded Americans have decided that they won't haul this cheap undesirable freight, the question is will they have a choice. I've been in this supply chain market now for over 25 years, and one thing I've always seen is that trucking rates will take a nosedive and many companies will not survive. Boom and bust cycles

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RICO_the_GOP@reddit

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Reneeisme@reddit

I’m so tired of this fucker trying to starve people to death.

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ThatGirlWren@reddit

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fuck-nazi@reddit

Is this picture done on purpose?

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here4daratio@reddit

Shitty AI

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EnslavedBandicoot@reddit

Trump is trying to destroy this country. Anybody who says otherwise is a fool.

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SlumLordOfTheFlies@reddit

yeah, giving CDLs to illegals who don’t speak English was gonna make this the utopia that we all want.

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EnslavedBandicoot@reddit

So working people are now in your crosshairs. Gotcha.

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pattydickens@reddit

I've always found the stereotype of American truckers as a bunch of white guys with southern accents and conservative political views to be kind of hilariou when most of the truckers I have met in the last 20 years are immigrants.

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SlumLordOfTheFlies@reddit

But Smokey and the Bandit…

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Ok_Wrongdoer_4299@reddit

What a shitshow.

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Rivetss1972@reddit

And NO repercussions to the trucking companies that hire all these immigrants?

So weird people only hating on the brown folks, what a surprise...

Driving a truck used to be a good living, but SOMEONE is hiring all these unqualified drivers.

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RachaelsBean@reddit

Right on! Thank you President trump! I’m sick of these morons driving trucks causing the most insane accidents. These morons can’t even speak or read English and they’re operating 18 wheelers?

DEPORT THEM

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Rivetss1972@reddit

Why you goatse for a sex criminal?

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Jimmgojam63@reddit

Just go to California, they’ll take care of you plus give you a library card!!

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Rivetss1972@reddit

Bot

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Theone2324@reddit

This is awesome

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Rivetss1972@reddit

Go back to your cartoons

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Bikesexualmedic@reddit

Love them or hate them, this administration seems to overreact to things pretty aggressively, and then slowly walk back their overreaction, and it might just be good practice to anticipate that.

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Theory_Eleven@reddit

You mean the competent ones who created the problem, or the ones who allowed it to go unchecked for so long, or the ones who use a hammer pretending all of America’s problems are nails? It’s hard to keep track these days of who the competent ones are

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Ricky_Ventura@reddit

It might be good practice to instead just elect competent people.

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Bikesexualmedic@reddit

I mean yes. But we could do both, right? Have hope but plant cabbages.

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s1gnalZer0@reddit

Yeah but did you hear the competent one laugh? How is that going to make America great again?

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Liber_Vir@reddit

Two more weeks!

TOTAL NUMBER OF ARRESTS:

Russian Collusion.................................0

Jan 6.....................................................0

MAR-A-LAGO RAID.............................0

AUTOPEN FRAUD...............................0

ELECTION FRAUD...............................0

EPSTEIN CUSTOMERS.......................0

COVID BIOWARFARE..........................0

COVID HOSPITAL MASS MURDER....0

DOGE FINDINGS.................................0

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QHCprints@reddit

Go figure you're active in r/walkaway 🙄

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Jahadaz@reddit

That's a freaking gross sub. Sorry I clicked.

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Otherwise-Offer1518@reddit

I am too. It's not filled with bots but "red pilled" Incels. God it's gross.

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QHCprints@reddit

An absolute cesspit of “both sides” conservative cuckery.

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hennabeak@reddit

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SeVenMadRaBBits@reddit

Here's a clean list I wish to spread

https://www.reddit.com/r/50501/s/bcVGKYcXcU

Edit: credit goes to u/CaptianHawaii

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SeVenMadRaBBits@reddit

A reminder of the timeline.

Trump ran on releasing the Epstein Files.

Epstein mysterioudly died while Trump was President.
3 Min. of footage from Epsteins death is missing.
Pam Bondi said the Epstein files were on her desk.
Trump: "There are no files."
Trump: "It's a democrat hoax."
Trump: "The files don't exist."
Trump: "Obama made it up."
Mike Johnson: "Trump needs space".
Democrats voted to release the files, twice.
Republicans voted no on the release twice.
Republicans take a recess to avoid any more votes.
Trumps personal attorney meets with Maxwell.
Trump avoids visiting victims.
Trump wishes child trafficker Ghislaine maxwell, "well".
Trump: "I never had the privilege" when asked if he had visited the island.
Trump: "we have the files"
Trump orders 1,000 FBI agents to review around 100,000 pages of records related to Jeffrey Epstein, and during this process, were instructed to identify any mentions of Donald Trump.
When Trump was asked specifically whether Epstein had stolen Giuffre (Giuffre, one of Epstein's most prominent abuse survivors led the charge calling for his arrest. Guiffre, who died by suicide in April, has said she met Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell while she was working at Mar-a-Lago as a teenager). Trump states:"I think she worked at the spa," Trump said. "I think so. I think that was one of the people. He stole her, and by the way, she had no complaints about us, as you know, none whatsoever."
Reporter asks tump: Mr. President, you said Jeffrey Epstein was stealing young women from your spa. Did that raise alarm bells for you?” she asked. As he tried to listen to the other question, Trump interrupted sharply: “Be quiet!” When Collins repeated the question, Trump again replied: “Be quiet!”
Joe Rogan, MTG, NIck Fuentes and many more right wing influencers flip and wont back down on epstein files.
MAGA town halls bringing up Epstein non stop.
Trump gives Maxwell work release.

A good breakdown of the tineline by NPR

Additional information about President Felon:

Was mentioned in the Epstein flight log 7 times and admitted to being his friend. Even rented Epstein’s plane.
Pleaded the fifth 450 times
Has 34 felony convictions for fraud
Has 27 sexual assault allegations, including a 13 year old child
Has 6 bankruptcies
Has had over 4000 legal cases involving himself or his businesses
Has 5 Draft Deferments
Has 4 indictments
Has had 2 impeachments
Has 2 companies convicted of tax fraud
Had a fake university shut down
Had a fake charity shut down

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Aggravating-Fee3595@reddit

This is like if I got a cut in my leg, and instead of putting a bandaid on it, I got the whole fucking leg amputated. Wt bloody hell

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Icy-Low8972@reddit

You got a cut on your leg, then let it get infected and gangrenous. Due to your negligence, now your entire leg needs cut off. FTFY.

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FunkyPlunkett@reddit

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No_Emotion7308@reddit

Is this related to the article? Mods should crack down on you POS.

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_____c4@reddit

This does improve road safety, they should make some laws to solve the phone usage while driving problem as well

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No_Emotion7308@reddit

👍

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Bad_Prophet@reddit

This is maybe the simplest example for why we shouldn't use work Visas.

Trucking does not require a person to be extremely smart or talented. It requires a person willing to learn, not do drugs, and be away from home and family to make money. We have plenty of those people here as natural citizens in the USA. What's lacking is the money.

Pay truckers a better wage. Make the suck worth it.

Will costs go up a bit? Yes.

Will all that money be supporting us citizens and communities, circulating in the US economy? Also yes.

Therefore, it's a net-neutral.

Pay an immigrant and people die, and the money is going to their home, not ours.

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Popular_Iron2755@reddit

If I could have my med card and cdl at the same time that’d be sooooo neat. I can read and write.

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thatgenxguy78666@reddit

All part of the Trump/Putin plan.

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ohyeahwell@reddit

Oh funny, this isn't on /r/conservative huh gosh golly gee

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Afraid_Manner_4353@reddit

Are people still thinking he wants what's best for America? He wants it all to burn down so his family and the 2025 group can remake it with their looted riches.

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twentytwocents22@reddit

Shouldn’t this fall on the state who issues the CDL to people who don’t meet the requirements?

Also, why aren’t trucking companies held responsible for employing them?

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Think_Bread6401@reddit

That’s what he wants

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IServeSatan@reddit

Trump extorting truckers now

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Educational_Ant_6557@reddit

This was part of Putin's plan fyi.

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RachaelsBean@reddit

Dude in Texas it’s all morons like this driving trucks. These guys can’t even speak English. They drive like morons. It’s insane.

These are the people that should be deported and or not let in. I’m sick of it.

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Effective-Ebb-2805@reddit

The Trump administration and its supporters have made sure they have all the slack they could ever want... now, let's see them trip over the mess of rope and hang itself with it. The one thing you can always count on with people like Trump is that they'll wave their little weiners around until they finally step on it. Always!

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myronsnila@reddit

Tbh, being able to speak the language of the country you are working in seems like a good idea.

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HappyAnimalCracker@reddit

Maybe not needed for all jobs but certainly for trucking

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XDBEA@reddit

I have worked in this industry for years and the “18%” foreign born drivers is shenanigans. It’s 50% AT MINIMUM. Most of them can’t speak English at all, can’t even check in at a shipper without a translator. Don’t show up to facilities wearing the proper PPE (close toed shoes) and the amount of calls we get for drivers pissing or taking a shit under a trailer being loaded AT A FOOD GRADE FACILITY that has restrooms available is staggering. By no means am I anti immigration, my grandparents came here but ffs it’s bad. 90% of my contacts are overseas, India, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, & Pakistan just to name a few. For those of you that don’t believe me, I have to explain what a padlock (yes a normal padlock) is every day, numerous times a day.

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phoneguyfl@reddit

I get you have an axe to grind against immigrants, but do you believe there aren't domestic white boys who are just as clueless and dumb?

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XDBEA@reddit

No, I don’t have an axe to grind about anything. Just stating facts. There are idiots that are American drivers as well but there are stark differences. My point is that the majority of people driving an 80,000lb vehicle, can’t even comprehend that shitting in a parking lot of the place everyone’s food is made isn’t ok. You should not be comfortable driving next to or in front of a semi now days

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Pea-and-Pen@reddit

My husband works for a VA hospital in Logistics. He said they frequently get truck drivers who neither speak, read, nor write English. In order to communicate with them, the drivers use an app to translate. They can’t read the signs of where to go on the campus so someone has to go direct them to the proper location. Like they can’t communicate to them that they need to go to building 3 and the driver be able to find it. Many don’t have drivers licenses. He says they are of all nationalities.

I’m not declaring right or wrong on the decision but it doesn’t seem safe for people to be driving big trucks if they can’t read English. Much less speak or write. By the same logic, I wouldn’t presume to go to a foreign country and try to be a truck driver if I didn’t know the language, laws, and customs.

All that said, this is one of those sticky situations where you are darned if you do and darned if you don’t. I certainly don’t pretend I have the answers.

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d_gaudine@reddit

Go watch the video of the crash. The two dudes act like they accidentally drove over a raccoon......they decapitated a family of three like it was nothing. he wasn't even stressed on the badge cam footage, lol. the driver...man....look on his face was "well, I guess I am getting a 2nd write up this week....oh well. " truly wild

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grummanae@reddit

Go watch the video of the crash. The two dudes act like they accidentally drove over a raccoon.

I have seen the video... I am not downplaying what they did

But also ... my man there is no way in Hell you can judge a person's reaction from a video on something like this.

The driver made a big fuckup ... not excusing that ... he should have had enough common sense to realize what he was doing

Problem is common sense isn't a flower found in most people's gardens currently

His reaction on camera vs what he felt could have been two opposite things I know it doesn't look that way but the men were probably in shock to some degree

Do I think he should be deported? Yes after he serves time for vehicular manslaughter and negligent homicide

Do I think he's guilty of at least 3 counts of those crimes ... well theres a video of it so

Do I think he was probably trained by a license mill ... given his lack of Situational Awareness of what his 53 ft trailer would do to 2 lanes of freeway ... Im going to bet money on it

The problem with these license mills/ forgein workers etc is not really a them problem... and not a business hiring them issue either ... its kind of a capitalism / culture issue:

First off we allowed this legally ... and with that some came in and offered to do the work at a cheaper/ more attractive for employers situation. So now employers have an expectation that a truck of goods can get driven from coast to coast or border to border in half the time at half the costv

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phoneguyfl@reddit

I don't think anyone is referring to this single accident as OK, but rather that this single accident isn't a great use-case for banning all trucker Visas across the board. Are you under the impression that all trucker visa holders cannot drive and will act like the idiots that caused this crash? And if so, are you under the impression that no domestic drivers would do the same thing?

I suspect that the regime is simply using this single accident to enact sweeping legislation that will absolutely cripple the shipping industry... except for specific wealthy/alite donors who happen to own trucking companies.

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