Mike Collins, a congressman from Georgia, wants to take away commercial driver’s licenses from noncitizens. Over the past 25 years, truckers for his businesses have been involved in crashes that killed five people and injured more than 50 people.
Our most vocal racist community is our Truckie community. They blame everyone for everything except themselves. They even argue that normal drivers shouldn’t pull over for sleep and that it’s killing Truckies (less spots for them to stop). It’s always about them…
And they always love to emphasise how important and irresplacable they are, despite the fact it’s one of Australia’s lowest skilled jobs.
When fuel prices went up, many of them were demanding they strike and block all the roads because many signed bad/risky contracts they didn’t want to blame themselves for
Not all of them, but the problem is so bad a newspaper even recently published how toxic they were
In the US, every time I see any video of a truck crash, there are tons of racist comments about the driver of the truck, who can’t even be seen in most of the videos.
Because, as everyone knows, no white guy has ever caused a truck crash. Ever.
I assume the issue here is that they sit around all day listening to right wing radio.
Yeah, here, I see comments about their footwear or possibly wearing a turban. Oh and none of them can speak English. In fairness, English proficiency is a requirement to get a CDL (commercial driver’s license), and somehow some states did issue CDLs to people who were not proficient in English…but I seriously doubt it’s more than a tiny percentage of drivers that don’t meet the standard.
Where I work we have 20-30 large trucks everyday. 99% of them the driver can’t speak any English. Like at fucking all.
The requirements to speak English to get a CDL is a fucking joke. Always has been.
This is California.
A few days ago we had a oversize flatbed driven by a guy who’s English was so shit we where having a conversation via Google translate on his personal cell phone.
English requirements for basically anything are a fucking joke. Its barely ever enforced to even the absolute bare minimum degree. In my experience.
This is particularly an issue here in Australia.
Our most vocal racist community is our Truckie community. They blame everyone for everything except themselves. They even argue that normal drivers shouldn’t pull over for sleep and that it’s killing Truckies (less spots for them to stop). It’s always about them…
And they always love to emphasise how important and irresplacable they are, despite the fact it’s one of Australia’s lowest skilled jobs.
When fuel prices went up, many of them were demanding they strike and block all the roads because many signed bad/risky contracts they didn’t want to blame themselves for
Not all of them, but the problem is so bad a newspaper even recently published how toxic they were
Classic selfish right-wing cunt behavior.
In the US, every time I see any video of a truck crash, there are tons of racist comments about the driver of the truck, who can’t even be seen in most of the videos.
Because, as everyone knows, no white guy has ever caused a truck crash. Ever.
I assume the issue here is that they sit around all day listening to right wing radio.
Yep… Here in Australia, they call them all “Raj”.
Not all of them, but, at least on Facebook, they seem to make us look bad internationally
Yeah, here, I see comments about their footwear or possibly wearing a turban. Oh and none of them can speak English. In fairness, English proficiency is a requirement to get a CDL (commercial driver’s license), and somehow some states did issue CDLs to people who were not proficient in English…but I seriously doubt it’s more than a tiny percentage of drivers that don’t meet the standard.
Where I work we have 20-30 large trucks everyday. 99% of them the driver can’t speak any English. Like at fucking all.
The requirements to speak English to get a CDL is a fucking joke. Always has been.
This is California.
A few days ago we had a oversize flatbed driven by a guy who’s English was so shit we where having a conversation via Google translate on his personal cell phone.
English requirements for basically anything are a fucking joke. Its barely ever enforced to even the absolute bare minimum degree. In my experience.