Public opinion is deeply divided regarding the suspension of visas for foreign truck drivers, with significant support for the decision rooted in safety concerns following a tragic accident. While many argue that language barriers and lack of qualifications pose risks, others criticize the measure as a superficial response to larger immigration issues, raising fears over potential labor shortages and increased costs in the logistics industry. The sentiment reflects frustration with systemic issues rather than just the actions against foreign drivers.

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"The driver failed the English Language Proficiency assessment, getting two of 12 verbal questions correct and accurately identifying 1 of 4 highway signs during an on-site compliance investigation by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, according to DOT."

MortgageAware3355

Legitimate insanity that we imported truck drivers, most of whom weren't even fluent in English, in the first place. Nobody should be allowed to drive any vehicle in the US without being able to read English

ladyofthemarshes

Good. That accident was totally avoidable.

Hot-Syrup-5833

About time. Here in South Florida, the trucking industry has become a joke, too many reckless truckers (majority of them either Cubans/Haitians) going over the speed limit with a full load and not knowing a single word in English. But hey, better late than never.

No_Ingenuity3078

Didn't know there was a trucker shortage to warrant importing workers.

txs2300

It's never going after the root cause:

* Who issued the CDL?

* Who was the business that hired him knowing he was illegal or avoided background checks? That blood is on the business owners hands too. Will they just receive a slap on the wrist? Nothing?

bl00m00n09

SzaboSatoshi33

Needs to be permanent.  There are plenty of out-of-work Americans.

Sure_Acanthaceae_348

Good. Now pause and review all EB-3 visa holders as well because  it's  also being  abused in the trucking industry.

Perfect-Dream141

Damn wish Canada followed in America's steps!

DrumStock92

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They are going to use the[ florida truck accident ](https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/08/18/criminal-illegal-alien-recklessly-driving-18-wheeler-kills-three-florida)to push all sorts of things in the trucking world.

roflcopter44444

Prestigious-Guava220

Why were they giving these out in the first place? Ridiculous.

Hontik

180thMeridian

I wonder if this has anyting to do with that Indian truck driver who made an illegal u turn and killed three people.

achlys333

This is more of a reactive, rather than proactive action. People have understand why "really" truckers need to be immigrants? I would understand if North Dakota, Montana, etc. may need, but why California?

bajpaik

Good.   
If working class and truck driving wages were indexed for inflation, social security wouldn't be running out of money. Instead we have been using scabs to keep wages low.

daylily

Haha but they cant do anything about school shootings? Such BS

Delicious-Survey-274

Thank the Illegal indian truck driver who killed 3 people in Florida doing an illegal U-Turn on the Turnpike

Fun-Conversation-634

The bridges on the Hutch breathe a sigh of relief.

knockatize

I was  thinking thats where you were trying to go and you can, I won’t. You do understand that in 10 years you do not have the same product.

No_Volume1190

mpanda_dj

I wish the Canadian government would do the same

BudsWyn

That’s how policies get made… people die without seatbelts so we all wear seatbelts, someone chokes on a toy so it’s banned, speed limits, banning chemicals from things. Many Policies are reactions to public safety issues. 

It’s not racist it’s common sense for public safety.

Leather-Show7767

They’re just villainizing immigrants so that their racist base will let them do what they actually want to do without political consequences: Declare an emergency when there’s an inevitable truck driver shortage, and relax laws to standardize self-driving trucks even sooner than they were already planning to. The MAGA truck drivers won’t know what hit ‘em!

Joenair85


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Conscious-Quarter423

Well, when vegetables and fruits double they will still blame Biden.

fellowuscitizen

&gt;"The increasing number of foreign drivers operating large tractor-trailer trucks on U.S. roads is endangering American lives and undercutting the livelihoods of American truckers," Rubio wrote in a post on X.


Endangering American lives? 


They're so unbelievably dumb and mean that they can't even be bothered to make up a good excuse.




Edit: I have a class A driver's license. I promise you the school I went to for it would never have let me drive if I didn't pass A bunch of tests and take a 2-week 8-hour a day course. Then I was a trainee driver for 6 weeks


 So this is not a normal, everyday situation and shouldn't be taken as such to justify this action

AssociateGreat2350

[There's a truck driver shortage.](https://www.ccjdigital.com/business/article/15736724/truck-driver-shortage-costs-freight-industry-955-million-weekly)

&gt;"The increasing number of foreign drivers operating large tractor-trailer trucks on U.S. roads is endangering American lives and undercutting the livelihoods of American truckers," Rubio [wrote](https://x.com/SecRubio/status/1958644528253948015) in a post on X.

Yet another example of the stupidity and incompetence of the Trump administration.  

They really want to tank our economy, don't they.

Ok-Bunch2258

That's an amazing way to drive inflation!

gelatineous

ScandiSom

MadScientist3087

So now the extra expensive, tariff inflated goods can suffer from domestic supply chain problems making things more scarce for many and even more expensive!

MrPantsyFlants

The solution is regulating the trucking industry again and increasing wages so it’s a job Americans actually want to have. We have truckers, but the turnover is so high and companies are incentivized to hire a cheaper foreign driver.

Free_Anxiety7370

Welll this is gonna fuck up the supply chain

LatterTarget7

Gee I wonder how this is going to turn out...

Rich-Leg510

we won't need truck drivers if we can't harvest our vegetables or process meat.

Inevitable-Ad9760

This means they will invest in battery-free electric train infrastructure for long distance supply routes and we will only need trucks for the shorter routes.

That's what this means right? 

Oh my bad, I forgot we have an administration with no real plan for anything except racism and power grabs

Empty_glass_bottle

Ouch259

Oh yeah cause everyone is so eager to be a trucker these days. Trucker Sim really got me hooked.

Possible_Mind_165

Intentionally fucking up the supply chain.

pj7140

I mean, I am as left as it gets but having these scheming scam schools  giving CDL licenses to unqualified foreign drivers is what leads to thing like that sick accident caused by utter incompetent driving in Florida that killed 3.

This didn't happen in a vacuum it was deregulation by the Republicans that caused it...but we really don't need drivers who don't read English driving semi's on out Highway.

There is no way in the world, the Trump administration will solve this problem, they are too pro business and anti regulation, so in the world we live in, I am OK with this until someone can tighten up the licensing.

BeverlyHills70117

Trumpflation is coming.  Could be sooner than later.

I405CA

Nothing like a good disruption to the supply chain. That will drive down costs for sure 

No_Material5630

U.S. halts issuing worker visas for commercial truck drivers… Tesla to flood the market with driverless trucks… so much for jobs, this administration will flush working class dreams while backing their vision for a techno utopian future.

ElectricalIssue5733

What are they doing? They’re intentionally driving up costs on Americans. It’s crazy!

Anon3580

Self described white supremacists have been setting their sights on commercial truck drivers of Indian background for a minute now. Just throwing that little bit of info out there in relation to this.

TessaThompsonBurger

good luck finding people willing and qualified to work that! /hj no seriously, you have to have a class A driver's license to drive semis for a living.

Serris9K

SurroundTiny

One guy, killed 4 people and screwed an entire market….

Ladefrickinda89

self driving trucks and railway expansion when

Otherwise-Sun2486

Its like they're purposefully trying to decimate every border town.

Might as well cross Laredo and El Paso off the map...

jrakosi

I'm not surprised. South Asians set up an entire fraud pipeline with corrupt driving schools on US soil. They'll pass anyone from the same village/caste. Even people who can't read road signs or speak English.

Kablammy_Sammie

Steve Albini once told me the backbone of the country is the independent trucker.

javyn1

Isn’t trucking one of the top professions for under educated white males? So that tracks

justaddwhiskey

So Trump really just wants our economy to fall of a gigantic cliff

yoppee

I actually agree with this. If they can’t speak the language, read our signs, and know the rules of our roads they shouldn’t be on our roads in giant trucks.

Swagtagonist

Smoke and mirrors. If you look at the numbers, it's less than 2000 a year getting visas for truck driving.

Financial-Prize9691

The way I read is no new visas, if they start revoking existing visas post COVID pricing is going to look cheap.

Fartrell_Cluggins80

"For the 2025 fiscal year, nearly 65,000 additional H-2B visas were made available specifically to help address labor shortages in the trucking industry."

Auquaholic

Where are all you sissi libs crying about trump hasn't done anything for truckers?

Own-Wrongdoer-6694

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cheapfr8isbad

It wont make a big difference. Most of the poeple are  are here legally. Even thoigh they shouldn't be.. many where granted green cards, or asslhum by the biden administration. Theya re here legally now.

Fluffy-Caterpillar49

If he was undocumented and did not have a driver's license, that is the bigger problem. But well, always easier to blame the immigrants

renblaze10

If only they would over react like this when it came to exposing pedophiles

B_R_U_H

reddittorbrigade

I’m sure this will have zero effect on the supply chain…

Just__Az__Nice

Immigrant causes 3 deaths = ban worker visas

Mass shooting causes 1000 deaths = ???

Infamous-Policy4426

Indians are funny

If Bangladeshis cross over for a job, we want to kick them out

But if America kicks out illegal Indians, we whine and cry

Same standards apply. Their country, their rules. Just as i is for us. Don’t like it? Stay where you are

No-Way7911

The federal government has allowed the trucking industry to drop all its standards over the past 50 years in order to keep freight moving and to crush truckers’ unionization efforts. But now that a Sihk has caused a fatal crash and it’s ok to be racist, now the government is going to jump in and maybe do something. I thought you right wingers hated laws and regulations?

daKile57

How is one thing even remotely connected to the other?

DarwinGhoti

This is something I can support. Due to the influx of foreign commercial drivers and commercial drivers opening their own businesses. Us American commercial owner operators have been forced to take extremely cheap pay for loads. For example, load companies used to pay an average of $2.60/mi and a lot of times it would have exceeded $3.00/mi. Because of foreign operators taking loads for under $2.00/mi and multiple drivers operating/living the same truck to keep it moving. American small business trucking companies have been forced to shut down. I am one who has been forced to shut down because of the poor rates. So I approve this decision. Yes it’s the fault of logistics companies allowing this to happen. But without foreign drivers willing to take cheap loads. It helps American drivers get better pay for their work. Anything under $2.50/mi is not worth taking as it only evens out the expenses and no profit is made.

ChiTownBull23

Actual justice usually involves punishing the guilty and not punishing the innocents.

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nanoatzin

They coming at from all direction at this point lol

bhumit012

Every aspect of the U.S. economy is under attack by the traitor Donald Trump (TINY HANDS!) and his stooges.

ecplectico

So if one president is a kid rapist, we should arrest all presidents?

OPGuest

Yet no action against pedophiles despite Maralago being in Florida.

InterestingWin3627

Looking for any excuse to throw out the baby with the bathwater.

Regulus242

So who’s gonna drive the trucks? Donnie duck?

rickiegarcon

He was illegally entering the country and getting drivers license without knowing English language is nothing but trouble. Nobody has rights to enter in USA and driving around is bad.

lucifrixbaby

Did this guy even have a visa? Or a truck licence?


As an Indian, I support any move that makes the roads safe. We need some of this enforcement here. 

Historical-Edge851

PossessionMost2092

The Trump Administration will rat-fuck the economy to death in order to virtue signal for the bigots.

Klytus_Ra_Djaaran

ITT: People thinking that because american drivers have accidents that means illegal immigrants, with less understanding of american roads (and even of English signage), should not be dealt with.
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ignoreme010101

m0rbius

Truckers down inflation up baby. Better not order anything if you want it anytime soon. 

sly_savhoot

Leave it to the republicans to make me feel sorry for the idiot truck driver. The weight of the US government on his chest now, in addition to 3 manslaughters.

Stop_icant

Lucky-Mia

Prices about to go even higher as the supply chain breaks down

RELEASE ALL OF THE EPSTEIN FILES NOW!!!!!

Financial-Talk9397

Who hired an unlicensed driver to ship commercially?  That is where the problem is.

No_Party5870

“They just have to do it the legal way”

ll_Redbone_ll

mileswilliams

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jquas21

I'm sure this will not impact store prices negatively 🙄

carlpum1

Shit about to get more expensive with less drivers

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