No more American truckers?

[FROGMAN524]

Do Americans drive trucks anymore?

Nearly 65k MORE foreign truck driver visas made available to trucking companies for 2025

The United States government has nearly double the number of visas that allow certain trucking companies to hire foreign truck drivers. The

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[Cdog]

Over the road guys. Yeah I can see it.

Vocational not so much.

With all the new standards started by carb and adopted by the EPA coming in 2027 you’re gonna see a large consolidation of trucking industry where only big companies can afford to purchase these trucks

Causing California in the state of cancer

 

[DRYHEAT]

It’s hard to find Americans that will work for slave wages.

 

[LazyLavey]

All from New Delhi?

 

[Cdog]

Northern Californian drivers are all Indian.

 

[Javajoe]

Northern Californian drivers are all Indian.

Dot or feather?

 

[4Waters]

Dot or feather?

Racist

 

[aka619er]

It’s hard to find Americans that will work for slave wages.

I was going to make the same comment. If people understood how in control the govt is with every single aspect of trucking they would be shocked. You are physically told when to sleep, or eat. When and where you must always be. How you must do this or that for free. Tickets are insane, rear facing cameras. And finally all day everyone you deal with hates a trucker. Shippers, receivers, cars, cops, truckers. No thank you.

 

[Dog]

All that needs to be said, sad state of affairs in the United States.

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said in a statement.

 

[yz450mm]

I just went and got my CDL permit, and interestingly enough I'm having a hard time finding a driving school/instructor that will help me with getting the required behind the wheel hours before I go take the driving test. The schools want the full tuition (>6k) to sit through the whole class, but a lot of that instruction is for people with no experience that don't have their permit yet. Happy to pay someone for their time to practice the walk-around and do some instructional driving, but no luck so far.

 

[Dog]

I just went and got my CDL permit, and interestingly enough I'm having a hard time finding a driving school/instructor that will help me with getting the required behind the wheel hours before I go take the driving test. The schools want the full tuition (>6k) to sit through the whole class, but a lot of that instruction is for people with no experience that don't have their permit yet. Happy to pay someone for their time to practice the walk-around and do some instructional driving, but no luck so far.

There is a school here, $2450 (close to that anyway), 5 days, and you leave with a license. I don't know if this is everywhere but schools here are allowed to test you and you leave with a paper to take to the DMV and get the physical license.

 

[Cray Paper]

I was going to make the same comment. If people understood how in control the govt is with every single aspect of trucking they would be shocked. You are physically told when to sleep, or eat. When and where you must always be. How you must do this or that for free. Tickets are insane, rear facing cameras. And finally all day everyone you deal with hates a trucker. Shippers, receivers, cars, cops, truckers. No thank you.

I will add that as an end of line receiver, I fucking hate truck drivers and have for 30+ years. Had to deal with their bullshit cowboy attitude so many times over the years on construction sites, doesn't seem to matter if they were wearing a cowboy hat, turbin or Black Lives Matter type headgear. Same self-entitled dip shit mentality, every one of them.

 

[FlyByWire]

Do Americans drive trucks anymore?

No not really.


Except cattle haulers still have some in the cab.

 

[Cdog]

Dot or feather?

Curry

 

[Blue Oval]

75% of the car haulers can’t speak English. Several of them hand you their phone to type what you want to say. They conveniently never fill a damage report out. So the dealer gets stuck with the damage repair. Not cool.

 

[AZmike]

I'm still on the road, hauling fuel every night to Havasu from Vegas or Phoenix. All you see is 3rd world country truckers now. I'm convinced half these guys are trafficked into the industry with a promise of prosperity. These guys can't be getting legitimately trained and tested for a license especially in California.

Oh well if you see me out on the 40 late night throw me a wave, I try to show some love whenever I see boaters and Harley's.

 

[Sleek-Jet]

No not really.


Except cattle haulers still have some in the cab.

9 out of 10 truck drivers we deal with out here are 'Merican. But these guys are delivering specialized equipment on flat beds so my sample size of 1 might not be valid.

 

[welldigger00]

I fucking hate Californian truck drivers. Throw piss jugs everywhere and running the hammer lane going up Cirriaco summit.

 

[FlyByWire]

I fucking hate Californian truck drivers. Throw piss jugs everywhere and running the hammer lane going up Cirriaco summit.

You don’t like iced tea….?

 

[Warlock1]

Going to Havasu from Phoenix last Friday for the poker run, we stopped at the gas station in Vicksburg. My wife made a comment about the Indian truck drivers. Two minutes later, we came up on a truck accident that just happened. Semi ran into the back of a pickup that had a service bed on it. Surprisingly the semi was way worse off.

 

[brgrcru]

Thank you for all your love

 

[Bobbyv]

I saw this coming some 20+ years ago while working on the Alemda Corridor coming out of the port of LA. Drivers with turbins on their heads and couldnt drive worth a shit I can only imagine their numbers now

 

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[Angler]

I was going to make the same comment. If people understood how in control the govt is with every single aspect of trucking they would be shocked. You are physically told when to sleep, or eat. When and where you must always be. How you must do this or that for free. Tickets are insane, rear facing cameras. And finally all day everyone you deal with hates a trucker. Shippers, receivers, cars, cops, truckers. No thank you.

Not to mention those fucktard truckers driving in the #2 lane on a 4 lane highway... That lane is for trucks with boats, 5th wheels and trailers.

 

[welldigger00]

Not one single hodgy in this group…

 

[Cdog]

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No Freight shakers or western stars either... HAHA!

 

[4Waters]

Thank you for all your love View attachment 1459481

Been seeing your ass everywhere lately, saw you drive through the silverlake yard a couple days ago in the AM, I was at the pumps filling up.

 

[Cdog]

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Hey do you guys need a Heavy Haul DC? Carb cert. Short WB, wet kit, interstate ramps, 605/2050 X15. 18 sp manual

 

[aka619er]

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That is one of the good things about our military. Foreigners aren't allowed on the bases so they can't haul the equipment.

 

[angiebaby]

Driving around the nation for the past four years, I've noticed that I-10 and I-40 are filled with Paki and Indian drivers. I-70/80/90? Very few. Just an observation. I remember when it used to be that the truckers were the best drivers on the road. Many of the long-haul drivers were owner-operators. My uncle was one and made pretty good money. They were courteous to other drivers, especially if you were driving a pickup/motorhome/trailer. Driving in the southern states these days, I dread when a trucker comes up behind or beside me.

 

[4Waters]

Driving around the nation for the past three years, I've noticed that I-10 and I-40 are filled with Paki and Indian drivers. I-70/80/90? Very few. Just an observation. I remember when it used to be that the truckers were the best drivers on the road. Many of the long-haul drivers were owner-operators. My uncle was one and made pretty good money. They were courteous to other drivers, especially if you were driving a pickup/motorhome/trailer. Driving in the southern states these days, I dread when a trucker comes up behind or beside me.

Very few are professional anymore, I drive a truck everyday all around LA and seeing what they get away with is amazing.

 

[ChiliPepperGarage]

I started driving them in 1976. The industry was quite different back then. Drivers had pride in what they did (mostly) and were professionals. I couldn't imagine what it is like now. Of course we had 130 million less people in the country back then too so the roads were nowhere near as crowded as they are today. Also no automatic transmissions then either. You had to learn how to jam gears. Now it is too easy to drive one.

I miss all the old school truck stops too.

 

[Cdog]

I’m headed to the Arizona Trucking association Trap & skeet shoot up at Ben Avery right now.

This industry is pretty cool if you’re in the right area around the right people

 

[aka619er]

My family grew up with trucking. Owning dirt and heavy haul companies in San Diego. My uncle use to haul cross county and said the rates in the 70's and 80's are the same they are today as they were essentially govt mandated. Add in the cost of newer mandated equipment in many places, high fuel, insurance, etc there is a reason large trucking companies are going bankrupt every day. I got my CDL when I was young and had so much fun tearing up the roads in San Diego. Many times I wish I could go back but there is a reason the foreigners are all doing it now.

 

[welldigger00]

Hey do you guys need a Heavy Haul DC? Carb cert. Short WB, wet kit, interstate ramps, 605/2050 X15. 18 sp manual
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Need? No. Would love to have? Hell yeah! Pretty truck, but I can’t do local. I’d bet Platinum would buy it…

 

[Cdog]

Need? No. Would love to have? Hell yeah! Pretty truck, but I can’t do local. I’d bet Platinum would buy it…

Send’em my way pls.

 

[welldigger00]

Send’em my way pls.

It’s all over insta. Look up platinum. I don’t know them personally

 

[JDKRXW]

... but there is a reason the foreigners are all doing it now.

In Canada, this reason is (1) employers of temporary foreign workers get subsidized to pay the immigants they bring over. (2) commercial licences from other countries are often recognized for up to a year so these guys can hit the road very very quickly (3) the owners of the trucking companies have their cousin in Bangalor issue a CDL as these 'new Canadians' get on the plane headed for Toronto or Vancouver. (4) because these guys are 'new Canadians', their additional education (licence upgrading) is paid for by the federal government.

There is no chance a non 'connected' trucking company can survive this scam.

 

[beerrun]

I'm still on the road, hauling fuel every night to Havasu from Vegas or Phoenix. All you see is 3rd world country truckers now. I'm convinced half these guys are trafficked into the industry with a promise of prosperity. These guys can't be getting legitimately trained and tested for a license especially in California.

Oh well if you see me out on the 40 late night throw me a wave, I try to show some love whenever I see boaters and Harley's. View attachment 1459465

I see you guys are always looking for drivers in the havasau Mohave area

 

[Andy B.]

I'm still on the road, hauling fuel every night to Havasu from Vegas or Phoenix. All you see is 3rd world country truckers now. I'm convinced half these guys are trafficked into the industry with a promise of prosperity. These guys can't be getting legitimately trained and tested for a license especially in California.

Oh well if you see me out on the 40 late night throw me a wave, I try to show some love whenever I see boaters and Harley's. View attachment 1459465

I've been trying to get on with pilot I have tanker experience but not fuel and I have all the endorsements plus twic card. Any idea's on who to contact? I have 15 yes experience driving trucks.
Every time it comes up on indeed I apply.....

 

[jetboatperformance]

Northern Californian drivers are all Indian.

Turbine - "pull start" dot is "push start"

 

[FlyByWire]

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This freight isn’t cheap enough for them.

 

[jetboatperformance]

You don’t like iced tea….?

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If My Piss was that dark I'd be looking for a clinic

 

[Orange Juice]

Over the road guys. Yeah I can see it.

Vocational not so much.

With all the new standards started by carb and adopted by the EPA coming in 2027 you’re gonna see a large consolidation of trucking industry where only big companies can afford to purchase these trucks

Causing California in the state of cancer

It’s going AI. The new trucks will drive them selves. Same with passengers cars.

 

[beerrun]

It’s going AI. The new trucks will drive them selves. Same with passengers cars.

Maybe but who is going to unload the D9

 

[2Driver]

I'm still on the road, hauling fuel every night to Havasu from Vegas or Phoenix. All you see is 3rd world country truckers now. I'm convinced half these guys are trafficked into the industry with a promise of prosperity. These guys can't be getting legitimately trained and tested for a license especially in California.

Oh well if you see me out on the 40 late night throw me a wave, I try to show some love whenever I see boaters and Harley's. View attachment 1459465

Hope you dont need to run the 93 from Wickenburg AZ to the 40.

 

[DRYHEAT]

It’s going AI. The new trucks will drive them selves. Same with passengers cars.

I heard that 36 years ago, I guess they’re still working on it.

 

[DRYHEAT]

I was going to make the same comment. If people understood how in control the govt is with every single aspect of trucking they would be shocked. You are physically told when to sleep, or eat. When and where you must always be. How you must do this or that for free. Tickets are insane, rear facing cameras. And finally all day everyone you deal with hates a trucker. Shippers, receivers, cars, cops, truckers. No thank you.

Many of the reasons I just said to hell with it and retired. Just not worth the aggravation anymore.

 

[brgrcru]

Very few are professional anymore, I drive a truck everyday all around LA and seeing what they get away with is amazing.

I’d get 10 tickets a day
If a cop followed me
The shit us dump truckers pull
Trying to get our rocks off
Is sight to behold !
Lol

 

[stonehenge]

I drove in LA traffic for 26 years while working for the city of LA. Much of that tenure was commuting to the Harbor Div.,

I always assume the "container crowd" drivers were shit, until I discovered the "derka-derka" drivers polluting merica's highways.