“There’s been a narrative that’s been pushed out for several years now that we’ve got this driver shortage crisis. In fact, I think we only have about three and a half million truck driving jobs to fill across the country. Our data from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration that we’ve analyzed shows that we have over 6 million United States commercial driver’s licenses that have been issued. So we have more than enough people that have been issued licenses for the three and a half million jobs that exist. But nobody wants to be a trucker,” Everett said, explaining that it is because they now have to complete with “slave wages.”
“The American trucking industry is experiencing a replacement of the American truck driver with this new truck driver that is being brought into the country and being dumped in,” he said, explaining that it is difficult for U.S. truck drivers to compete with foreigners from Eastern Europe and Asia and “all these places that are used to making third world living wages.”
“They’re used to having third world living standards. So they don’t mind living in the trucks. They don’t mind never going home. They don’t mind making a third of what an American truck driver makes. And so the American Truck driver is continually being pushed down. Their standards being pushed down. Their wages are being pushed down. So, of course, no one wants to drive a truck,” he said.
Everett said there are loopholes that are making this a reality. For instance, the U.S. is allowing foreign commercial drivers licenses to be used on America’s highways. He pointed to one example with the death of Scott Miller in Colorado in semi-truck crash.
“Scott Miller was killed by a driver who had been deported 16 times. He was under deportation orders at the time of the accident. And so I knew exactly what was going on with that driver, because of my experience with the cross border lanes and the competitors,” he added.
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Everett said that they believe that controls were in place to “stop the insourcing” and flooding of the industry, everything would adjust properly.
“But what’s going on today that’s even a bigger problem than what we just described, is the issuance of US commercial driver’s licenses called non domicile CDLs to non-citizens
“That just started in 2021 under what’s called the Biden Harris trucking action plan. And so we actually have non citizens, just similar to what you saw those reporting on recently. Yeah, hey, we found out these guys are getting EAD cards. We found out they’re getting social security numbers. They’ve left one loose end. They also got commercial driver’s licenses,” he added.
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