“It has become abundantly clear that the trucking industry has come under attack by the forces of greed in America, and American truckers are targeted to be totally replaced by insourced labor before we are to be replaced by robot trucks in the medium term future,” Gord Magill, a trucker of nearly 30 years, said to the Daily Caller News Foundation. “Starting with the general issue of high turnover in the industry, rather than addressing those problems that cause drivers to run for the exit, the solution the industry came up with years ago was importing drivers from anywhere they could,” Justin Martin, a truck driver for over 15 years, said to the DCNF. The American Trucking Associations (ATA), which represents more than 37,000 motor carriers and suppliers throughout the U.S., pleaded with the Department of Homeland Security on Friday to crackdown on companies engaging in cabotage, a gimmick in which unauthorized foreign drivers haul point-to-point loads within the U.S. Cabotage can generate millions for employers while undercutting wages for American truckers, the ATA warned.
Author: Daily Caller News Foundation
Published at: 2025-09-21 18:17:38
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