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The Great Replacement of American Truckers With Unskilled Foreign Labor - Live with Gord Magill

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	Ladies and gentlemen, to start off with something totally unrelated but on which I would like to put the blast.
	Gavin Newscomb and Tom MacDonald are having an internet Twitter war.
	X war.
	The X Games.
	Let them begin.
	So as many of you may have seen, Gavin Newsom called me gay on X this morning.
	I think he's just mad that the song I wrote about him, The Devil is a Democrat, is currently number one.
	But Gavin, you don't have to be mad.
	You've got lots of number ones too.
	California's number one in homelessness.
	It's also number one in unemployment.
	And who could forget it's number one in totally preventable forest fires?
	You're crushing it, bud.
	Gavin, I think you're just.
	mad that the devil lives in California.
	He a politician.
	He passing bills that bring chaos and division.
	Yeah, the devil lives in California should be in prison.
	He got horns, but he tries to keep them hidden.
	Because the devil is a democrat.
	And we I'll pause it there because everyone should go listen to the song in full.
	I wanted to start off with this.
	First of all, Tom and I are matching with our beautiful neon purple.
	I saw that tweet.
	I had heard people say Gavin Newsom via his official press account, which we now seem to know is run by AI, called him gay.
	And I wouldn't say did he call him gay like like Riccardo, like late and Riccardo, which is the Nick Riccardo meme?
	The tweet, which Tom McDonald referenced here, was right over here.
	And it says, bro, we get it, but he's not interested.
	Stick to Grindr.
	Grindr, from what I understand, is a website for homosexual men to go find other men.
	I couldn't believe it was a real tweet.
	And lo and behold.
	It's a flipping real tweet.
	And I want to put this on blast because this is disqualifying, not like, oh, haha, so funny.
	It's just a joke.
	What kind of person thinks this is funny?
	First of all, just to highlight the obvious, Tom McDonald has been in a monogamous relationship since 2017 with Nova Rockefeller.
	Gavin Newsom cheated on his first wife.
	His wife, his second wife, did other things, which I won't get into because there's allegations that Harvey Weinstein.
	uh assaulted her there's also allegations that she sexed up harvey weinstein to get donations for gabin newsom's reelection campaign we are dealing with abject degenerates abject degenerates who sit there celebrating Pride Month while taking the piss out of I don't know what the expression is, I'm not British while making homophobic jokes at the expense of the gays that they celebrate for a month while they cheat on their wives and lead a life of sin and debauchery.
	So congratulations, Gavin Newsom.
	If you want to run for president, I won't let the world forget about that.
	I also won't let the world forget about the fact that a man who got certified for a commercial driver's license out of the state of California under questionable circumstances that we're going to discuss today went on to kill three people in Florida and people need to go to jail and not just the illegallegal alien who apparently doesn't speak any English who crossed the border illegally but somehow got a commercial driver's license as though it's nothing out of the state of California.
	We don't know when.
	We don't know if it was criminally issued or if it was just issued after Biden gave this guy the pass that the Trump administration didn't give him.
	We're going to get into it.
	That is the intro.
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	Okay, today I've got on somebody who's been on the channel before, Gord McGill, and he's a truck driver.
	He's a Canadian truck driver, was involved in the truck driver protest or vocal about it, became very vocal about what's going on in Canada, was in, was published in Newsweek, I want to say a couple of times, has been a very vocal spokesperson for Matters Canadian and has been sounding the alarm on what we are now witnessing, the deadly consequences of the crisis.
	the deadly consequences of immigration policy and half asked, lackluster, almost flawed by design issuance of these licenses to bring in cheap foreign, non-English, non-speaking the language of the, of the country, labor that can be exploited, despite the fact that it leads to literally deadly consequences more often than we can count.
	If you've never met Gord McGill, you're going to meet him now.
	He's a great guy.
	Gord, bring yourself in and do a better introduction than I just did myself.
	Sir, how goes the battle?
	Hi, Viva.
	Thank you for having me back.
	How's it going?
	It's very good.
	I'm down here in the free state of Florida.
	We are now, you know, reaping the devastating consequences of policy from across the country.
	It's a wild thing where you say, like, oh, policy in California doesn't impact Florida except for, you know, the people leaving California jacking up the real estate prices, insurance prices.
	But no, policy in California has now killed three people in Florida.
	Policies in many states have killed many other people in many other states.
	This incident in Florida has really touched a nerve with people.
	Oh, but hold on, before you even get there, Gord, tell the world who you are.
	You were on with Tucker Carlson.
	You've been, you've been writing, uh, cases for Newsweek.
	Tell the world who you are because they're going to need to know your credentials and I don't want to do a full historical background, but I'll do a bit.
	Okay.
	So, yeah, thank you for having me on again.
	I've been on Viva once or twice before.
	I am, in fact, a Canadian trucker.
	I live in the United States now.
	I married a lovely American lady.
	I am in the less free state of New York.
	I live near a little college town called Ithaca.
	Some of you may have heard of Cornell University, eight miles from my house.
	Third generation trucker, my grandfather landed at Normandy in a Sherman tank.
	in a Canadian uniform with the red ensign on it, not the maple leaf, and blasted actual Nazis, not the ones that occupy the imaginations of so many of our friends on the left.
	Came home, drove across the Trans-Canada Highway when it was first built.
	Used to run back and forth to Winnipeg through the United States before the Trans-Canada Highway was completed.
	My dad, also a trucker, Uncle Chris, Uncle Bruce, my uncle Chris started one of the first freight brokerages in Canada when that became a thing in the 80s.
	Very successful.
	Him and his partner eventually sold it on.
	And Uber Freight Canada is now built on the bones of the company my uncle started.
	I myself have been driving truck for 28 years, did four seasons on the ice, drove road trains in Western Australia, hauled logs in New Zealand, have been everywhere in the United States.
	And I've sort of been writing about this a little bit for about the last seven years.
	It's really cranked up in the last couple of years, as you mentioned in the intro, due to Freedom Convoy.
	I went home to Ottawa to express solidarity with my fellow Canadians and fellow truckers.
	And I've been writing about it nonstop ever since, especially the guys out in Coots.
	And I've also been watching the disintegration, immolation.
	the acid poured on the North American trucking industry in the last few years by forces economic, political, and cultural.
	And this incident in Florida really highlights all of that.
	And I wish it was as simple as blaming Gavin Newsom, but it's not.
	And we can go deep on this if you want.
	We're going to go very deep.
	I just wanted to bring up the comment that I wanted to highlight as well on the ice man.
	So you've been actually doing like we saw the show, and I asked you this the last time, ice trucking on frozen ice up north in Canada.
	Ice road truckers up in the Northwest Territories.
	That's correct.
	That is, I mean, how thick is the ice that you're driving these trucks on?
	When the season opens, I think the minimum is 28 inches.
	You go up partially loaded.
	As you're going across the ice, you're helping make it thicker.
	There's this concept called deflection.
	You push the ice down in the water, it cracks, it refills with ice, it progressively gets thicker.
	Eventually, once the entire road is 42 inches thick minimum, the whole distance, you're on full highway weight, 140,000 pounds of Super B trains.
	42 inches is almost as long as I am tall.
	What am I?
	65 and a half inches.
	That's, Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	No, they have ground penetrating radar.
	They've got guys with augers that are constantly testing the ice.
	They flood the sections that get cracked up too bad on the top.
	It's a whole amazing engineering operation.
	And like I said, I did four seasons up there.
	And they have the ice roads because they don't have actual roads to where you're going.
	So it's inaccessible during the summer via truck.
	Right.
	Yeah.
	No, it's impossible to build roads.
	It's like Northwest Territories' shield country.
	It's all granite and lakes.
	And then eventually about halfway up the ice road, you come out of the tree line and then you're in subarctic tundra.
	There's no more trees anymore.
	That is.
	So I remember the coolest thing that I ever discovered was well for me we were driving northern Ontario and we hit a point in northern Ontario where it said all the water from here flows up to the Arctic and not into the St. Lawrence and I think it was near Timmins Ontario if I'm not mistaken.
	Yeah the the the the Great Lakes watershed sort of fluctuates through northern Ontario interestingly enough so my uncle Bruce who was a trucker his whole life, hauled logs for many years from a town he lived in called Armstrong, which is at the top of Lake Nipigan, where the CN Rail Line goes through.
	And just north of Armstrong is where the northern edge of the Great Lakes watershed is.
	So I used to go fishing with my uncle.
	We would leave his house, Great Lakes watershed, we would go to Caribou Lake, Arctic watershed.
	Where I'm sitting right now is at the southern end of it.
	The Susquehanna River and Great Lakes watershed is three quarters of a mile from my house.
	The water in my backyard goes into Lake Ontario.
	If I drive a mile away, it goes into Susquehanna and down to Baltimore.
	That's amazing.
	All right.
	Now, we're going to get quickly into the subject of the day so that the chat doesn't get too angry, but just tell us what goes into learning how to drive a truck.
	Why a lot of people think, on the one hand, it's mindless or anybody can do it.
	No.
	These trucks are typically eighteen wheelers.
	How, how, what are they?
	42 feet long?
	Well, it depends.
	It depends on the length of the trailer, the length of the tractor.
	You can have different applications.
	A standard semi like this jack off in Florida was driving is eighteen wheels.
	Trailer was 53 feet long.
	Typical ten wheel tractor tractor, eight-wheel trailer, five axles, weighs 80,000 pounds.
	That's a standard semi in the United States.
	Okay.
	And are they, I'm not mistaken, they're typically standard as well.
	Like it's, it's, it's, sorry, not standard, manual.
	No, no, no, no.
	Oh, no, no, no, no.
	That's on the way out, brother.
	One of the reasons that these guys are able to be insourced.
	to parasitize on the North American trucking industry is because roughly 20 years ago, the mega carriers, the really big trucking companies here in the United States, they have a.
	They have a retention problem, which this is one of the deep issues which brought us here, right?
	Major trucking companies in the United States did not want to pay their drivers more, did not want to invest in them, did not want to improve material conditions.
	And they have a retention problem.
	Some carriers in the United States go through 150% of the drivers that work for them every year, right?
	Someone comes, they last a few months, they quit.
	It's really, really bad.
	And it's been like that for decades.
	one of the things they did in order to allow them to do that was they started talking to the transmission companies saying if we have automatics it's easier for us to continue cycling people through.
	Okay.
	So the business model of trucking for those who don't appreciate it, you can either have the trucking company that has the trucks and then I guess the truckers themselves are strictly employees.
	When they have the truckers who own their trucks, are they independent contractors?
	Well, there's, well, there's another, there's a whole bunch of issues with that too.
	There's a lot of owner operators out there, a lot of guys with small companies.
	In fact, you know, a lot of the guys of the Freedom Convoy were owner operators or they're, they're a farmer that happens to have a truck and they haul their own grain or fertilizer or loggers.
	A lot of loggers own their own trucks.
	Then there's these things called lease operators, which is this huge scam in the united states where some of these big predatory mega carriers who have such a huge retention problem they'll find a new employee somebody who's kind of figured it out you know they they work out the system and then they offer to sell them a truck but they hold the note on it and they hold all the cards and they hold all the loads so they say hey we're going to sell you this truck eventually you'll buy it from us eventually you'll be your own boss The problem is the
	washout rate on that is like 80 to 90 percent.
	Only 10 percent of people ever get through that system and succeed.
	And that's another way that they just, they download.
	all the costs onto drivers and they get away with basically suppressing everybody's wages.
	Okay, so they've moved to automatic transmission because it's easier in terms of finding replacements.
	Correct.
	The actual, I've never, I mean, I drive a Bronco compared to driving a Compaq is that you get used to a wider wheelbase, bigger turns, yada, yada.
	Driving an 18-wheeler, what goes into learning that and what goes into driving that and things that you need to consider that most people never even know to consider in the first place?
	Right.
	Well, there's the weight of it.
	You have to be able to handle 40,000 pounds and sort of understand the feel of the road, acceleration, deceleration, braking, cornering, all the things that you have to do with a car or a pickup truck.
	Times 100.
	Yeah, literally times 100.
	And it's not as easy as it looks.
	And then there's all the industry stuff that you also have to understand and
	then there's the terrain right so there's a lot being made about the english language proficiency reinforcement that uh the us dot started doing again in june in 2016 the obama administration fmcssa waived enforcement of an old rule that's been on the books in the United States since 1930 something that said if you have a commercial driver's license in the United States,
	you must be proficient in English because all the cops are talking English, everybody else on the road, all the signs.
	That hasn't changed in the like 90 years since they passed that rule, right?
	You go out west, you go into the mountains, or even here in the Appalachians, you'll drive down roads, you get to the top of a mountain, there's a big sign that shows you the grades, how fast you have to drive, you have to stop here and check your brakes.
	All these signs are in English.
	You drive across Wyoming in the wintertime on Interstate 80.
	They have these warning signs that tell you about the wind speed and the ice conditions on the highway and tell you maybe you have to stop.
	Maybe the highway's closed.
	All in English, right?
	You deal with the cops at the way stations and inspection stations when you get pulled over by the police.
	They're all speaking in English.
	Obama waived enforcement of that rule.
	They didn't change the rule.
	They didn't get rid of it.
	They just said, no more placing these drivers out of service.
	Right.
	And this is one of these loopholes that allowed sort of scummy carriers and the small trucking companies that have been started by certain immigrant communities in the U.S. that allowed them to bring their homeboys here and get into the market because now, hey, they're not going to get pulled off the road by the cops like they used to.
	Okay, explain what that either loophole or When was that law enacted or the loophole enacted?
	So the loophole came about in late 2016 at the tail end of the Obama administration.
	the FMCSA put out a memorandum, a waiver saying, we will no longer place out of service those drivers who fail a roadside English language proficiency test.
	So we will no longer put them out of service, which basically means it's like DBAs.
	I don't know that I can even steal, man, a rationale.
	Is it that there were at that time already so many foreign, either legal or illegal immigrants who were working these jobs?
	Well, this is complicated.
	The people who claim credit, if credit is the right word, are an organization called the CVSA, the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance.
	Okay.
	They are like an international advisory body slash representative group.
	of all of the enforcement arms, right?
	So your state's DOT in the United States, your provincial highway enforcement guys in Canada, and the relevant Mexican authorities.
	And the CVSA is this body that oversees inspections, collection of data.
	They advise government agencies on things.
	CVSA said, oh, we don't see any reason to place these guys out of service anymore.
	Because they can't speak the language of the land to understand the signage of the land.
	They don't.
	And presumably, by the way, if they can't read, I mean, those are pretty, I say straightforward, though it's a minimal amount of reading comprehension.
	what other communication factors are going to be an issue in terms of i don't know let me get let me give you an example so we had this uh hurricane here a while back and everyone saw the flooding in North Carolina, Tennessee, other parts of sort of Appalachia.
	After that took place, Interstate 40 was closed for a long time, right?
	They had to sort of rebuild it.
	Everyone has seen the photos.
	The river gouged out like part of the interstate and it had to be rebuilt.
	This guy comes trucking through there, right?
	Has no idea and then passes all these construction signs saying all trucks must exit here.
	All vehicles must exit here.
	This road is closing.
	This guy drove right into a construction zone where they were trying to rebuild Interstate 40.
	And by the time the cops come up to him, they're like, dude, what are you doing?
	And all this, this, this, this is a young guy.
	He was 20.
	He was 23.
	I can't remember what country he was from.
	Did not speak English, just kept pointing and saying GPS, GPS, GPS, GPS.
	So his dash, his dash mounted GPS system was telling him to keep going down i40.
	And he had no idea.
	that the highway was washed out, no idea that the road was closed, and he just kept on going because he cannot read the road signs.
	Someone in the chat brought it up, and I just wanted to confirm because it was my recollection as well.
	Trump reversed that.
	But this is recently.
	This is April 28, Trump reversing Obama-era rule with order requiring truckers speak English.
	Right.
	The executive order came down in April.
	It went into effect on June 25th, I believe.
	It's now official.
	And now, I mean, I guess the logistics, do you know, first of all, you are the master of this because this is not a field with which I have much experience.
	Do you know what the enforcement is going to be?
	Is it sort of like a stop and frisk that they can test?
	Well, so that's the point.
	After the accident, they're like, oh, sorry.
	Well, this is the rub, right?
	What law means anything unless it's enforced?
	A few weeks ago, probably two weeks ago, I think, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy goes on, I can't remember what network it was, but anyhow, he says, hey, we've been doing this enforcement and thus far we have placed nationwide 1500 of these drivers out of service and he's like hey we're going to do more but like if you understand the trucking business and and when the second or third flood of these people came in because this has sort of been going on for years and we can get into when like
	the really big surge of these guys came into the business was in late 2021 and 2022 because of policies from the Biden administration.
	There are literally hundreds of thousands of these guys out on the road.
	1500 is the tip of the shitberg, if I may be so bold.
	Well, we need, so I'm just going to get my thoughts in order here to get back to the the trucking industry when did it start experiencing these problems you say 2021 that seems a little late from when i start remembering these fatal accidents and i can go back to a number which happened to have had illegal aliens or immigrants at the wheel when did it start becoming a problem well it's sort of been slow it's it's it's i there's not really any particular date i can point to there are certain things that happen right so
	there's this 2016 waiver um my colleague shannon everett at american truckers united everybody on twitter follow shannon go to his website american truckers.com he's a great clearinghouse for this information him and his crew have been investigating this stuff he originally started investigating the illegitimate use of what are called b1 visas okay is this this is the website that's that's the guys yeah um in fact i had shannon on my own podcast i'm going to be releasing that later today we just did a roundtable on this whole issue with
	this guy in florida he's he's a he's a his name is shannon yeah israelian shannon uh on twitter at at u truckers okay i'll get that anyway yeah anyhow so he starts investigating the use of b1 visas by mexican truckers in the united states and to a lesser extent canadian ones and they're engaging in in this practice called cabotage,
	where a driver who's from another country, possibly working for a company outside the country, doesn't matter if they're inside, if they're a non-citizen that doesn't have work visa privileges here, they're not supposed to do this, right?
	So he starts investigating this, and then he starts finding out about this non-domiciled CDL issue, which begins to contribute to it as well, because a number of states have been...
	So they begin issuing non-domiciled CDLs to like migrants, refugees, illegal immigrants.
	I'm going to interrupt you just to make sure everybody understands the terms.
	Non-domiciled commercial driver's license.
	What does the non-domiciled part of that mean?
	Okay, so the original intent of allowing non-domiciled CDLs is this.
	Sometimes you live in one state, you move to another, you need to get your license transferred over.
	There's like a whole bureaucratic process to do that.
	When you move to this state, it takes a little while to give you a non-domiciled CDL until you figure out where you're going to live.
	Because you're not domiciled in the state, but you're domiciled in America.
	Right.
	And now they're giving, I presume, to get ahead of it, non-domiciled to undocumented or immigrants that are not domiciled yet in America at large.
	Exactly.
	And Shannon and his crew have identified 10 states who have had insane jumps in the number of CDLs, many of them non-domiciled.
	And there's another term, this will get to the fight between Gavin Newsom and Ron DeSantis because they're trying to weasel out of this because of a new term they're using.
	Okay.
	And that term is limited term CDLs, right?
	So California has not been issuing non-domiciled CDLs.
	They're calling them limited term CDLs, which is basically the same thing.
	And Florida is doing that.
	So DeSantis gets in this online fight on Twitter about the non-domiciled CDL thing, and he's blaming California for this accident.
	Florida is one of the 10 states that Shannon and his crew have identified as issuing all these CDLs to asylum seekers, illegals, migrants, like just anybody showing up in America.
	So like DeSantis needs to like stop throwing rocks out of his glass house because he's implicated in this as well.
	Okay, so this is wild.
	So they issue a non-domiciled CDL to people who are, who have a CDL in another state how are they issuing them to people who i guess these in the well good good question and this is being uh investigated so secretary duffy to his credit since sean duffy has uh became the transportation secretary he's been one of the most responsive people he went on my friend timothy dooner's show what the truck uh timothy has since left that show but one of his final interviews there was with duffy and
	duffy said we're reading you guys on twitter we're listening to the truckers we're hearing your concerns about what's going on out there and in june around the same time as the english language proficiency became or began to be enforced at scale.
	Duffy also said we are launching an investigation into the issue of these non-domicile licenses.
	So the white pill here is that Duffy's on it.
	How many commercial truckers are there across America?
	Good question.
	I don't think anybody knows because like it's so hard to get data and another thing.
	So there's this thing called the motor carrier information management system.
	It's like a computer system run by FMCSA to keep track of all this stuff.
	Since Shannon, my friend at American Truckers United, has been making waves, he and I have been on Steve Bannon's show.
	We've been talking to any media who will have us about this, those states have noticed and they've been going back into the MCMIS and trying to like draw those numbers down and they're making it try to seem like they didn't actually issue them.
	So we can't actually, we don't actually know.
	Typically speaking, there are, according to the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics, there's somewhere around three and a half million jobs in America that require a commercial driver's license.
	Many of them are not actually trucking.
	You use a pole truck for your electrical utility to like hang electrical lines or cut down trees, propane delivery guys.
	There's all kinds of CDLs out there for jobs that are not long haul trucking.
	Long haul regional and local trucking where you're pulling a trailer, a CDL class A. It's estimated that there's somewhere between 2, 2.2, maybe 2.5 million of those jobs.
	And to clarify, within the CDL as a big net, you have big trucks, smaller trucks.
	A CDL is not necessarily only and always for an 18-wheeler.
	You can have a CDLB for a smaller truck with no trailer or a tiny trailer.
	All right.
	CDLB, what do you have?
	CDLC?
	CDLC is for buses and motor coaches.
	Okay.
	And I guess that's it.
	There's no D. I don't think there's a CDLD.
	Okay, so I guess the one that everyone is very much interested with now is going to be the CDLA which is the big truck and I you know I see we're being called racist scumbags because we want everybody to be able to read highway signs and understand pre-trip instruction reports calling me racist is anti-Semitic don't these idiots know that I didn't actually see that I would I would have brought it up to make fun of So we're dealing with,
	you know, I'm asking various AIs just to get an idea, but you seem to be better than AI.
	But we're dealing with like, you know, say between one and a half to three million 18 wheeler CDLs class A's.
	Correct.
	Okay.
	What percentage of that industry now is.
	comprised of, am I going to be racist?
	In-source labor.
	No, what new arrivals?
	What percentage is new arrivals for whom there may be a question of English proficiency, among other things?
	Well, that's a great question.
	Officially, from what statistics I've been able to dig up.
	Now, this is official, right?
	So you have to remember the people doing this illegally and employing people that don't have any work authorization and employing people that just got off the plane from wherever are not exactly, you know, going to respond to any sort of query about what they're up to or follow the survey or be visible to the system, right?
	Right.
	So officially, it's between 17 and 20 percent recent arrivals.
	I think it's actually much more.
	Anecdotally, it's much more.
	So I'm going to tell you another thing, you know, to our friends here who think we are racist.
	One of the biggest insourcing locations in the United States is Chicago.
	Those of us who discuss this on Twitter call it the Chicago Volvo Mafia.
	What does insourcing mean?
	Sorry.
	Bringing in labor from other countries to work here instead of employing locals, right?
	Okay.
	So in Chicago, there's hundreds of these companies owned by Russians, Ukrainians, Bulgarians.
	There's whole websites and YouTube channels that are dedicated to nothing but advertising in Serbia, Bulgaria, all over Eastern Europe and the Balkans to come to the United States and drive truck for these companies that are likewise run by those same ethnic groups, right?
	There's so many of them that like we call them literally the Chicago Volvo Mafia.
	They're all centered mostly in Chicago.
	And they do this other weird thing too, where they like, And how they're getting away with this is they're using a piece of surveillance technology that was mandated on truckers in 2007 called the electronic logging device, right?
	There are so many electronic logging devices that are self-certified to be registered with the FMCSA, they can't keep up with them.
	These guys in the Chicago Volvo mafia are so brazen, so brazen about advertising for people to come to America, work illegally, drive 20 hours a day that they say, oh, our ELDs are flexible.
	You can drive 5,000 miles a week.
	The average American trucker is lucky to do 2,500 to 3,000, maybe a little more if they've got a lot of good luck under the rules.
	ELD.
	Electronic logging device.
	Okay.
	And the FMCSA is the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.
	I'm just going to make sure the acronyms are on everybody else's mind as well.
	Okay.
	And now, so for those who just called you and or me, nobody ever calls me anything bad.
	Racist.
	It's not like strictly, we're seeing Indian, we're seeing, you know, South American, but this involves Eastern European as well, exploitation of cheap labor.
	Correct.
	Okay.
	I'm trying to figure out like the requirements in order for someone to be able to drive
	You have to demonstrate competence and ability to actually operate the vehicle.
	Again, handling out on the road a vehicle that weighs 40 tons, 80,000 pounds, back it up.
	But it's very, very minimal.
	The state requirements to get a CDL.
	If you talk to any old timer in the industry, everyone will tell you having your CDL does not mean anything.
	But how long does it take?
	Is it like a two-month course or one?
	week course oh dude oh no dude there's there's people doing it in two or three weeks which is insane which is totally totally bizarre and and the government the fact that the government allows this is is absolutely criminal okay so it's then exceedingly easy to get a cdl even for a class a it's not like you have to log 1400 hours like with a small plane to a big plane.
	which would be a good innovation.
	Right.
	No, that would be graduated licensing.
	And this is something I would like to see brought to North America.
	In New Zealand and Australia, they have a graduated truck licensing system.
	You have to do like a CDLB, like a straight truck for one year.
	You have that license.
	And then you can move on to pulling one trailer.
	And in Australia, they have another separate license for like the trains and road trains holy i'm sorry so there's no gradation and this is this is my no you i could go out myself and get a cdl hypothetically i'm smart i'll get it in three weeks and then i don't have to like go from a bus to a bigger truck to a one a small tractor to a big one i can get a and then start driving hypothetically in a month with absolutely zero other than the course road experience that is how the vast majority of truckers get in the business and
	that is how it's been for probably the better part of two or three decades wow okay that's we're you know what it's so bad viva we are lucky that we don't see incidents like what happened in Florida every damn day.
	We're seeing it almost every day, a couple times a week, you know, to varying degrees of tragedy and numbers of people dead.
	So two days after this thing happens in Florida, there was another big crash on Interstate 70 in Illinois.
	both sides of the interstate traveling in both different directions in the same section in the same county in Illinois, two different wrecks involving six semis and God knows how many cars.
	It's a miracle nobody was killed.
	I just pulled it up.
	It said injured.
	No nine vehicles involved in two crashes.
	I'm not sure if this is it.
	That's one.
	Okay.
	So now, okay.
	So it's.
	already been an industry where certification has been at a bare minimum.
	Now, at the very least, though, when wages were, well, no, I guess the issue now is then exploiting illegal and/or legal immigration for the purpose of cheap labor, it's now added an extra level of risk to this already risky certification process.
	Right, well, this is like, again, if we go back deep into the history of trucking, the major mega carriers are basically sucking off the taxpayer to pay for their truck driving schools because they have a retention problem.
	Everybody quits.
	You know, there's a lot of really good truckers out there who do it the old way like I did.
	So when I started trucking, I worked for a trucking company in Ontario at night after school when I was a teenager went and did a road test when I was 18 they gave me a truck and I went and did it myself but I had been around trucks my entire life by my via my dad and my uncles and then working for this company for like two years at night after school so I was familiar with it I drove shunt trucks I had lots of experience before I got in the truck okay But now,
	because of this taxpayer funded CDLML system, the big carriers have offloaded part of the cost of their retention problem onto the taxpayer, which allows them to cycle people through the trucking industry.
	It doesn't, they've built it into their cost structure.
	If the government, if state governments and the feds and counties told the trucking companies, be a free market, you're on your own, we're pulling all taxpayer money out of the training system, they would have to clean their acts up in a hurry because their whole entire operation depends on the taxpayer subsidizing this retention problem.
	This is actually amazing because, okay, so the entry is very low.
	And I don't want to say we haven't heard about incidents.
	We've heard about them for a while, the ones we tend to focus on the one in Canada, the Humboldt Broncos bus crash.
	Oh man, it's even worse.
	It's almost as bad, if not worse, in Canada.
	We're going to get there because I see now how it fundamentally intertwines with illegal aliens and cheap labor.
	You know, you had the, which one was the one where the trucker got 110 years for crashing?
	Well, that was in Colorado.
	In Colorado.
	On the mountains, brakes failed.
	He happened to be, I believe he was, I want to say he was illegal as well, but we focus on those.
	There's been so many of these incidents in Colorado with either illegals or recent arrivals crashing.
	coming down the mountains in Colorado.
	I can't keep up with them all.
	So you have to be really specific.
	Well, I do.
	I want to get into the fact that right now, so the argument is going to be, it's an easy entry bar.
	Now you've got a lot of illegals or immigrants coming in to be exploited for cheap labor.
	You get Yeah, they could be legal or illegal.
	It's happening on both sides.
	That's what I want to get to more the illegal side of it than the legal side, because how an illegal can get it is going to bring us into the Florida situation.
	But just so everybody understands what's happening.
	You bring in legal and/or illegal and you see, now you've effectively driven down the wages and created a society that's dependent on the cheap transportation, where if you say now we've got to implement minimum standards, minimum wages, well, they're going to say if we don't let the.
	illegals do it, it's going to drive up the costs of the supply chain and drive up the costs of products.
	And so therefore we need more cheap foreign unskilled labor that we can exploit for this purpose.
	How does an illegal, let's just say an illegal immigrant, and we're going to get to Harjandir Singh.
	And then we're going to get to the Indian element of this because there were so many Sings involved, it was difficult to find out which crash from A Harjandir Singh was related.
	How does an illegal go about actually getting a CDL?
	Good question.
	So there's a whole ecosystem of these truck driving schools.
	Okay.
	Some of them are owned by their fellow coethnics, especially in Canada.
	The Brampton and the Surrey crew.
	They have been in Canada in the trucking industry for so long now that they have their own entire ecosystem.
	They're Indian primarily.
	Yes, yeah, primarily Punjabis.
	There's a lot of them as well in California.
	And the problem is, again, this is multifactorial, right?
	California will issue these limited term CDLs.
	And because a lot of these CDL schools also self-certify, and also you have the problem that California is basically a one-party state, right?
	A friend of mine, a philosopher and writer by the name of Matthew B. Crawford, wrote an article for the UK online magazine Unheard a few years ago about the corruption in California, the corruption with their DMV.
	They are giving out licenses and, you know, emission bypasses for people's cars.
	It's totally corrupt.
	And like if you've got a corrupt DMV where some of your homeboys or fellow gangsters are working there, don't worry about that test.
	We'll just get it for you.
	And it's not isolated to California.
	There has been DMVs and truck driving schools who certify their own drivers busted in Oregon, Washington, Illinois, Massachusetts, Florida.
	It's all over the place.
	The entire system has been corrupted, which is what's part of what's allowing this.
	I want to see, I'm just going to explore this while you continue to elaborate.
	Are they exploiting the H1B visas for truck drivers or is that?
	Well, yeah, no.
	I remember when that whole kerfuffle happened on Twitter after Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk decided that American workers weren't as important as they originally said they were, a number of Twitter anons started digging through all the listings for H1B.
	And in fact, there are companies out there saying they want H1B visas for truckers, even though they're not supposed to.
	Truck driving does not qualify for an H1B.
	They're doing it anyways.
	Well, it seems that it's the H2b i don't know how that works but um uh okay all right so then all all of this okay so never mind the visas they're only able to do this because they are lying about this truck driver shortage that the american trucking association this corporate lobby group has been talking about for decades it's fake they have a retention problem they cannot keep people because they will not improve the pay or the material conditions of the job there are millions of
	people with CDLs that just aren't working because they got into the meat grinder that's the trucking industry and they said no thank you so what the ATA has done is they have convinced every state government and the feds that there's a shortage of truck drivers in America it's a lie there has almost never been a shortage of truck drivers in America maybe in the 80s after deregulation kicked in for a little while maybe right after NAFTA got signed for a year or two while everything started moving north and south over the borders.
	Outside of those two winters, windows there's never been a shortage they just go through people and what's happened is they've taken this shortage narrative and they're using it to say hey we need to immigrate all these people here to drive truck for us otherwise the supply chain is going to collapse it's a lie it's always been a lie they're liars if anyone tells you there's a shortage of truck drivers, kick them in the fucking nuts.
	You can take it with a grain of salt, chat.
	As I fact-check you, it seems that there's between eight and a half, nine, maybe upwards of 10 million active CDLs in America.
	The American Trucking Association, the biggest promulgators of this lie in their own report about the driver shortage in 2019 in the footnotes, said, we know that there's 10 million people here with CDLs.
	Like they're just liars.
	So they promote a narrative that there's a shortage.
	They then import new arrivals of questionable skill levels.
	There's no, it answers one question is to the extent you can get it in two to three three, maybe four weeks.
	Nobody's asking for prior certification out of Serbia, Russia, Ukraine, India, Pakistan, whatever.
	So they come here, barely speak a language, go rush, get a CDL.
	The process may or may not be corrupt through which they get it.
	And now they're driving 40,000 pound trucks, uh, treating it like, on the one hand, maybe like the way people drive back home, which is not necessarily the safest way, and uh, barely able to read road signs.
	That's where we're at.
	The specific case of Harjinder Singh, and it's a hilarious thing.
	I don't think I say hilarious in the most disgusting way possible.
	There was a story that there was another Harjinder Singh that said, oh., is this the same Harjender Singh who took an 18-wheeler over a six-ton max bridge and crashed it in, I want to say, Arkansas?
	And it wasn't because there are so many coming in from certain parts of the world that they literally overlap with names.
	The Singh is the Smith of India.
	What was it in terms of the Harjender Singh being such a common name that you actually could not even identify which one was responsible for which crash based on which trucking company they worked for?
	Well, again, there's so many of them and there's this problem with CDLs.
	I'm looking it up here.
	So I'm going to do pop back over.
	We're going to do screen share, continue with screen sharing.
	Oh, geez.
	No, it doesn't want to let me do it.
	Someone I think is pulling a, I hope that's a dumb and dumb or is it dumb and dumb or where he meets a sea bass in the bathroom?
	So my, my, my associate, Danielle Schaufen on Twitter, she's really great on this.
	She is like the ultimate trucking online vigilante for finding out all this information.
	She's got a tweet here that says.
	There are 100 plus trucking companies registered to Ahar Jinder Singh.
	Okay, that might be the tweet that I quote tweeted to get to what is that?
	Over 100 trucking companies.
	Can one, no, can one individual be registered to more than one trucking company?
	Well, yeah, this is another problem.
	So one of the reasons that these carriers are able to get away with this, right?
	Those that are cycling in migrants, those that are getting in accidents, getting caught speeding, they are eventually caught by the state, right?
	They get pulled into a waystay, they get inspected, they get pulled over by the cops.
	There are official paper trails of these guys being placed out of service, being given fines, and you can track this stuff.
	What ends up happening is there's these layers of LLCs, what Danielle and Shannon from ATU identify as chameleon carriers.
	They change their name.
	So you'll have all your trucks registered at this LLC.
	That LLC is attached to a motor carrier number that's registered with the feds.
	When you run up your safety points and nobody wants to use you, you take all those trucks, you transfer them to another LLC with a different motor carrier number, but it's all the same people.
	all the same drivers and then you just take you've seen the photos online and people in trucking will know this you see these guys with like cardboard and paper signs duct taped onto the sides of their trucks and it's just it's all different information but the people the trucks and the drivers and the companies they're working for are all the same it's just different corporate entities.
	You said run up your safety points.
	Explain what that means.
	So you will get points for violations, right?
	A driver who gets too many speeding tickets, dangerous driving, hours of service violations, the trucks and trailers get inspected and they keep failing.
	You know, your brakes are out of adjustment, your tires are worn out, you know, airlines are wore through, some other issue with your truck.
	After a while, you build up so many points, which is tracked by the FMCSA and the brokers and shippers who use truckers can look that up.
	So when you go and like apply to move a load, you give them your MC number, they go check you and it says, oh, you got too many safety points our insurance won't let us give you the load and so it's as simple as reincorporating re you know shifting everything over to a new clean corporation exactly there's no value that's really attributed to a newly formed trucking company although the ones with a clean history might be more reliable well yeah but exactly so what ends up happening is there is actually an aftermarket in these motor carrier numbers shut
	up for old clean corporations that are just right no no again duffy is on this us dot is canceling the motor carrier registration number thing as of october and then they all have to be fresh united states dot numbers this is changing the system this is amazing because like i know this type of fraud from corporate law, like where people have shelf companies, they get a company that was incorporated in whatever 15 years ago, and then they can say, oh, established in 1988, even though it's been an inactive shelf company.
	And they do with the trucking company as well.
	So they can say, oh, we've been incorporated for 20 years, operational for three months, but we have a clean record and look at our history.
	Exactly.
	That's exactly what's happening.
	Holy shit.
	Gord, that's okay.
	All right.
	Okay.
	Mind blown number three now.
	So all of these various authorities, right?
	So this is the problem.
	There's so many loopholes.
	State DOTs are supposed to look after this.
	DMVs are supposed to look after that.
	FMCSA is supposed to look after this.
	DOT, like, and not all of them talk to each other.
	There's not enough enforcement.
	And then you have problems with states like California, Florida, Illinois, South Carolina, Texas, just handing out CDLs willy-nilly to anybody.
	And all of these different factors have come together and just turned the trucking industry into mincemeat.
	And it's almost impossible to chase it all down.
	Okay.
	So a company gets too many safety points.
	They either shift it over, figure out, they just operate through a new company.
	And so it's conceivable that that there are either multiple Harjinder Singhs, just taking that as the most recent example because of the amount of immigrants coming from specific countries, especially in Canada.
	It's also conceivable that it's the same Harjinder Singh who has now been registered through various trucking companies because the original one had too many problems.
	They reincorporate, do whatever, and then sign him back on for the new company until he crashes a car.
	It wasn't, by the way, the same Harjinder Singh because that guy was 35 in 2019.
	This guy was 28 now, unless someone's lying about their age, which is also possible.
	Yeah, well, there's been a number of these bridge collapses too.
	I wish I had the links here, but there was a bridge collapse in Indiana, another one in Michigan and it's always these guys named Singh who can't read English.
	They get lost because they can't read their GPS.
	They drive through some place and then their GPS tells them to turn right over a bridge and the bridge has a little sign that says maximum weight six tons.
	And then you drive over it with a vehicle that weighs 40 and now you're in the drink.
	And now I think there's still like some kind of like there was a lawsuit between the state of Indiana and the state of California because Indiana had one of these bridge collapses from one of these carriers based in Fresno using a guy that just showed up from India, had no idea what he was doing, collapses this old bridge.
	They had to get these huge cranes in to dig the guy out, rebuild the bridge.
	I think by the time they were done, it was some ridiculous amount of money, like $30 million, and the state of Indiana tried to sue California to get that money back.
	That is simply wild.
	Okay, well, now if we can get into the specifics of this Harshinder Singh involved in the fatal Florida crash, there, I mean, there's news and it's still the early fog of war as to when he got his license, how he got into the country, et cetera, et cetera.
	We know we apparently know that he came in via California in 2018.
	Trump under.
	Under the Trump administration, detained was slated for deportation, made an asylum claim.
	Apparently, that asylum claim was subsequently rejected.
	There was no deportation for reasons which I don't know, but maybe it's not yet known.
	Biden comes into power, approves this guy, and we're not sure when he got his CDL.
	Do you, with any insider information, know when he got his CDL?
	Was it 2019 or 2021?
	Duffy just put out a tweet about this today because they're moving forward with their investigation.
	Oh, yeah, sorry, Duffy.
	Sean Duffy, Secretary of Transportation.
	So it says, here's what we know.
	Washington State improperly issued the driver a full term CDL.
	Asylum seekers or illegal aliens are not allowed to receive this CDL.
	Number two, New Mexico failed to conduct an English language proficiency test when they pulled this driver over for speeding.
	Had they done this, the driver would not be on the road.
	We are also looking into California's issuance of the driver's CDL.
	So he got one in Washington and then transferred it to California.
	And somehow California also let this guy keep it despite his lack of work authorization and the fact he was an asylum seeker.
	Yeah, let me bring this up here.
	Here's what we know.
	This is the tweet.
	New Mexico, so Washington State, we don't have dates.
	I want to know the dates because if it's 2019 versus 2021, someone, and I don't know if an asylum seeker can get a CDL.
	I don't know that they can get an employment authorization document.
	Yeah, I don't know that they can get that while their asylum claim is pending.
	And even if they can, if they can then use it.
	So Washington State improperly issued the driver a full-time CDL.
	asylum seekers or illegal aliens or not well that answers that question that happens a lot happens in new york danielle was showing me some stuff too where new york is issuing cdls to this same group of people that are only here on temporary visas and the cdl is only supposed to match the time on the visa and the CDL has got like an extra two, three, four years on it.
	Motherfucker.
	So he gets pulled over for speeding in New Mexico.
	Let me get am I on the right tweet?
	We're reading.
	There we go.
	Good.
	He gets pulled over for speeding in New Mexico.
	I'd like to know how fast he was going carrying however many tons he's carrying.
	They don't do.
	Okay, so they don't do an English proficiency.
	Let him go.
	Then we have to see, okay, must follow the rules.
	These failures are despicable.
	I wonder if they're criminal.
	Like if there's going to be some investigations in terms of the state level criminality.
	Well, again, Secretary Duffy announced a few weeks ago that the feds, the USDOT, are in fact investigating the issue of what they call non-domicile CDLs.
	There's this other weasel word, again, that California is trying to use, and it was seen in this piss fight with Gavin Newsom and Ron DeSantis.
	There's limited term.
	It's effectively the same thing.
	Non-domicile and limited-term CDLs are the same thing.
	Giving CDLs to people who...
	We're not sure how long their immigration is going to be, but we're giving them a CDL anyway, which is stupid.
	They just shouldn't get one.
	Now, we had talked about it the last time we spoke, where, you know, whether or not this was part of a more sinister plot to cause such chaos that it would facilitate the automation of truck driving and people would be willingly jumping on board for their own safety.
	I don't know if you've had any more evolution on those thoughts.
	I mean, well, I mean, so, well, let's back up.
	There's much bigger picture issues here, right?
	So we have mass emigration out of India.
	Some of my friends refer to this as economic terrorism on the part of Prime Minister Modi to just send people out.
	India received $129 billion.
	in remittances from around the world in 2024.
	How much of that was from truckers in America and Canada?
	Who knows?
	But there's a program in place by India to just send their people everywhere and grab whatever money they can.
	Okay.
	And then we have the migrant and refugee crisis, which the Biden administration just fully encouraged, terrible immigration policies.
	And then we have the NGOs.
	the nonprofits, the foundations that are trying to help these people.
	Again, my friend Danielle on Twitter, her substack, Highway Veritas, she released a report here diving into the role that the NGOs play.
	There are dozens, she lists dozens and dozens and dozens of programs where these NGOs, foundations are trying to, I've taken the driver shortage lie and said, oh, we can just help these refugees get jobs in trucking.
	And they're paying for them to go to truck driving school, paying for them to get licenses, and making contacts with the industry to go and give these people jobs, despite the fact that there's no driver shortage, despite the fact that for three years.
	the United States freight market has been in recession or overcapacity, right?
	There's a website called Freightwaves, which is like an industry website.
	It's one of the like leading supply chain logistics and trucking websites around.
	They have a section of their website called layoffs and bankruptcies.
	They've got writers there whose full-time jobs are documenting the closure of American trucking companies and the laying off of American truck drivers.
	And it has been full tilt boogie for three years.
	So all these people are coming into the American market while American trucking companies, some of them legacy carriers, a carrier in Florida called Carol Fulmer, 400 trucks, 400 drivers, all of them American, all legal, not playing any of this game with in-source labor, out of business.
	And that's repeated over and over and over again for the last three years.
	Yet these NGOs and the Biden administration and all these bleeding art liberals and progressives, oh, there's a driver shortage.
	Maybe we should just give these jobs to these poor refugees and migrants.
	In our local community, SB farmers asking, why would they send money back?
	I mean, this is what, this is, they send money back to support their families.
	I forget what percentage of the American economy.
	is remittances that say illegals or legals or new arrivals send back to Mexico, Philippines, India.
	Oh, it's massive.
	It's massive.
	Okay, so hold on a second.
	The automation, so set that, call that a conspiracy theory aside right now.
	For the time being, it's just cheap labor the trucking companies are incentivized to do it and safety models the smaller ones so i want to i want to add a new i want to add a couple of nuances here so i don't get in trouble with my trucking friends okay typically the large carriers the mega carriers the people represented by the american trucking association they don't hire these guys they don't hire people with questionable legality questionable work visas questionable cdls because they can't They
	already have, they already, many of them already have to self insure because the locals they hire out of unemployment offices that they hand CDLs to get in massive accidents, cause all kinds of trouble.
	Like this is not like some thing where it's, oh, it's just those immigrants.
	There's a lot of people getting into the trucking industry in America who have no business in it either.
	Like being a bad driver and being ill-suited for the trucking industry is domestic and international, right?
	So these huge companies, the guys with thousands of trucks typically don't hire these people.
	However, until very recently, when the winds of political change, you know, started to blow in a certain direction, they supported this.
	Okay.
	I'm going to give you an example.
	I write occasionally for the Blaze, you know, Glenn Beck's old outfit.
	I wrote an article in March talking about the Biden trucking action plan and the flooding of the trucking industry with in-source labor and all these accidents because it wasn't just Florida.
	This has been going on for years.
	Okay.
	The day after I published that article, okay, the American Trucking Association comes out on their website, on their blog, and says, there are people claiming that there's too many migrants and there's millions of people stealing American truck drivers' jobs, and that's false.
	So they didn't name me.
	They didn't name the article because they're cowards, but they felt the need to say that this was not a problem.
	Okay.
	Fast forward a couple months.
	No, not even like six weeks.
	Trump comes out with the executive order saying, we are going to reinforce English language proficiency.
	The next day, the American Trucking Association comes out and says, oh, we want to thank President Trump for taking this common sense safety measure.
	Six weeks previous, the cowards at the American Trucking Association, without naming me, accused me of lying about that very same issue.
	Okay?
	These people are fucking criminals.
	And what the ATA is doing is they know that their competitors, the smaller, medium-sized companies, the family-owned companies with 10 trucks, 50 trucks, five trucks, that provide really good customer service.
	They've been owned by two or three generations of the same family.
	That's their competition.
	They know that the people eating their breakfast are all the in-source labor guys working for like the Russians of the Chicago Volvo mafia and all these small carriers that contract to Amazon.
	And Amazon is implicated in this because Amazon does not have any of their own trucks.
	When you see a 53-foot blue trailer with a white Amazon smile on it, the truck pulling it is one of these characters that's hiring foreign or in-source labor.
	90% of Amazon's loads are getting hauled by people from not here.
	Which explains why you can order something at 8 o'clock at night and have it shipped to your door the next morning for virtually nothing is this exploitation of mass-deep labor.
	Right.
	Okay, so we have the situation with the Harjinder Singh.
	I mean, I guess...
	Oh boy.
	Canada, it's the same.
	It just looks different because in the United States, you've got like the states.
	and all these various competing complexes and different levels and it's most it's from all over the world it's the Russians it's the Baltic it's the guys from the Balkans it's Central America it's the Me Mexicans, it's everybody.
	In Canada, the in-source labor into trucking has mostly been Indians and Filipinos, okay?
	And a lot of it's downstream of the Temporary Foreign Worker Program and the Student Visa Program, which allows students to work.
	So there's a bunch of different things happening with the Indian penetration into the Canadian trucking market, right?
	It's been ongoing.
	It's probably been ongoing longer than it has been in the United States.
	It's got more cover of legality because of the temporary foreign worker program and because of Trudeau's immigration policies.
	In 2019, And we come to find out that there's a lot of like, you know, sort of complexes based in British Columbia and Ontario that bring Indians here, right?
	They have recruiters in India who say, hey, come to Canada.
	We'll give you a job.
	You pay them 20 or 30 grand.
	You get off the plane in Vancouver.
	That recruiting agent sends you to the immigration consultant, BC, who's also Indian.
	He sends you to truck driving school, also owned by an Indian.
	That guy sends you to trucking company owned by his cousin after three weeks.
	You just got to Canada.
	You had no idea that you were even going trucking.
	You're just like, I'm getting a job in Canada.
	And now your road to citizenship or whatever is dependent on all of this employment.
	And you basically have an indentured servant who's working for undermarket value, 100%.
	And Globe and Mail was on this in 2019.
	If you don't believe me, you want to call me a racist for talking about this.
	Fine.
	Take that up with the Globe and Mail.
	I want to get to the solutions in a second.
	Before I get to the solutions, let me read a few of the chats that we have over here.
	We've got California had a CDL company that was fraudulently giving out CDLs ran by five, four, five guys named Singh.
	Can't make this shit up, says bona fide, bona fide or dunk.
	King of Bilton says need more protein in your guys.
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	808 Scotty need to put ice agents at every port of entry.
	Good place to round them up and force trucking companies to retrieve their loads should be real expensive.
	Hitler was a vegetarian.
	The fact that Florida is also giving out these licenses answers my question as to why Pam Bondi has announced hasn't announced any sort of investigation into the employer.
	And this one might be covered by my head.
	There's a thirteen state pack with California based allegedly on climate change laws but are following the leader in many policies.
	Most have zero Republicans in Congress.
	The question in our Who's this?
	We got a little person over there.
	Hello.
	This is my daughter, Georgia.
	Hey, Georgia.
	Then we got in our Locals community.
	Let me bring this up because there's a constructive question.
	I guess we're going to end on solution-oriented stuff.
	How do I do this?
	What's my?
	I we don't.
	How do we have to do to make trucking great again?
	again, you've already alluded to some of the positive recommendations, but what are some of the solutions that need to be enforced if they've already been implemented, but implemented if they have yet to be implemented?
	Well, I want to applaud Secretary Duffy for, you know, taking some initiatives.
	They've already done the English language proficiency thing, which is going to cut into it, but only a little bit.
	You know, I don't know how much of an imposition it is to take an ESL course.
	They're available everywhere.
	They're usually free.
	I mean, English is a second language.
	So just make sure you can understand and communicate.
	Yeah, remember, if you speak English and you can play the game the same as we are, go for it.
	But yeah, we can't just.
	depend on the government for this.
	Um, I think the shippers and people like Amazon Relay, which is the sort of internal sort of Uber, like, hey, order a truck thing that works for Amazon.
	Don't worry about it.
	They, They need to get off the crack pipe of cheap rates.
	They need to start asking of their carriers, hey, are you guys actually legitimate?
	How much experience do your drivers have?
	Like, how much are you paying?
	Like, you know, the sort of you go to some like sort of LibTard coffee shop and it's all like, oh, we do fair trade coffee.
	And here's the farmer in Guatemala we support.
	How about we do something like that for American truck drivers and family-owned American trucking companies that have been in business for decades instead of trying to gut them and render all of their drivers unemployed and contribute to the like, you know, destruction of rural America.
	You know what I'm saying?
	It's wild.
	It's wild.
	I mean, it takes these high profile tragedies for people to understand there's a systemic problem going on here.
	And some people are right.
	First of all, it's not racist because it's not just immigrants of a certain skin color.
	It's new arrivals who don't speak the language who are being exploited for cheap labor, period.
	There's also some systemic inherent problems within the industry.
	And it takes these wild, obscene tragedies in order to make them known to the public.
	Gord, you'll send me all of the links, but tell people where they can find you right now.
	Right.
	So if you want to hear my podcast, the Voice of Gord podcast, or see any of my writings on this, I have a substack called autonomous truckers.substack.com.
	I also write for, I used to write for Newsweek, the American Conservative, The Blaze, a DC think tank called American Compass.
	I've written for Unheard.
	And I'm writing a book.
	It's called End of the Road, Inside the War on Truckers.
	It will be published in February or March of 2026.
	It will be a booklet length deep dive into everything we've been talking about here and more.
	All right, send me all the links, Gord, and I'm going to put them up in the pin comment when we're over here.
	All right, you can follow me on Twitter as well at GordMagill GRD MAGILL.
	Amazing, Gord, thank you very much.
	I'm going to go in for a few minutes more and then go over to Locals for our after party.
	Awesome, thanks so much, Viva.
	Be safe out there, guys.
	Be careful around the trucks.
	It's not the same truckers as your dad's truckers.
	Absolutely.
	Gord, have a good one.
	I'm going to see you soon.
	Thanks, bye now.
	Why?
	Look, I don't get pleasure out of watching another parent struggle with their kids the way I struggle with our kids when they want.
	When a kid wants attention, the kid's going to get the attention.
	That's fantastic.
	I'm going to put all of Gore's links up there in a second.
	That's eye-opening.
	And it's interesting that Duffy is on the issue.
	And we're going to see what happens with this particular situation.
	What is amazing thus far is Gavin Newsom trying to weaponize this against Trump because people don't understand the legal concept, the logical concept of actus novus intervening acts.
	The determinant element of this tragedy was not the fact that the illegal alien entered the country illegally, but that the illegal alien who entered the country.
	illegally was given a commercial driver's license, but for that, this doesn't happen.
	The illegal alien entering illegally and not being deported after the order was issued is a separate problem.
	Then not enforcing existing protocol.
	Speaking English is kind of important here in Quebec.
	You have to speak French, you can speak other languages, but you have to speak the language of the land.
	Let me see if I didn't miss anything.
	We're going to go over and have our locals after party.
	And at five o'clock, I'm going to be on with doctor Drew, but for now, let me just see.
	Redacted is live.
	There will be consequences.
	Trump issues a big threat to Putin ahead of a peace summit.
	Is this newer new or is this old?
	Well, redacted is live, so we're going to raid redacted, but before we do that, before we do that, everybody, I went to the post office today.
	I'm not saying that I was disappointed that I didn't see anything.
	I got a couple of letters actually.
	If anybody wants to send stuff to my PO box, here it is.
	I'm going to give everyone the links to everything.
	PO box 139, folks.
	Oh, let me hold up, hold up.
	Wait a minute.
	Looky, looky what I got the other day in a pack.
	Who knows who this is?
	Glover to show share a autograph numbered to 99.
	Beautiful.
	Classic.
	But who do I really want?
	I want a Tatsudo Taida signature card PO box vivafry dot com for some merch Viva Barnes law dot locals dot com where you can support the work that we do.
	We have our after party every day on locals 3 o'clock daily in the Rumble lineup.
	For those of you who are new to the channel, I post the clips to com youtube and I've been forgetting to post the clips also to rumble because I presume everybody's already watched the stream and I've been bad last week.
	I'll get back on that.
	I'm going to put all the links to Gord's Substack, Twitter handle, everything.
	I hope that really makes people appreciate the scope of this problem.
	It's serious.
	For anybody thinking you drive a truck, it's just like driving a car.
	It's not.
	I mean, it's insanity to me that there's not, what do they call it?
	Graded licensing?
	For goodness sake, you can drive a pontoon.
	You can't drive a freightliner.
	That's a car.
	You can't drive a big boat.
	You know what I'm getting at?
	that is it yeah hold on a resident bedouin hold on resident bedouin no gord is Uh, he's better than AI.
	Like, I mean, he's he's giving me the numbers.
	I I double check everything, uh, just to make sure, but he's he's better than AI.
	Okay.
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