This wheel’s on fire
Power Line,
by
Bill Glahan
Original Article
Posted By: Dreadnought,
8/25/2025 12:19:54 AM
From the Times of India,
Sikh advocacy groups estimate there are approximately 150,000 to 200,000 Sikhs working in the trucking industry, with around 90% (135,000 to 180,000) being drivers. They constitute about 18% of the total truck drivers in the US and up to 40% are based in California.
This fact was buried in the 6th paragraph of a story about that Indian-national truck driver (Harjinder Singh, billed out of Stockton, CA) accused of causing three fatalities in a minivan with his truck on the Florida Turnpike earlier this month.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
DVC 8/25/2025 12:56:29 AM (No. 1995035)
Find all of them and deport ALL of them. No illegal aliens in the USA.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 8/25/2025 1:05:46 AM (No. 1995037)
This is unacceptable. We are supposed to be a civilized and as safe a country as we can make it. 18% of the drivers!! Think about that the next time you are surrounded by 80 lb 18 wheelers on a rainy day on the interstate. I raced Sports cars for seven years and am more nervous with those big trucks in front, back and beside me every time I get on what should be a quick, easy drive. It also seems to be now that every other vehicle on the road is a big truck. I know that they deliver our food and products and are necessary but the least the state authorities could thoroughly vet these drivers before the give them a CDL. Giving those illegals certification and getting hired by trucking companies overlooking the danger for extra profits should land the owners in prison. At the least, fine them $5,000 per day for every illegal caught driving their trucks.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Maggie2u 8/25/2025 3:07:47 AM (No. 1995042)
As so many others have said this past week, the authorities have to start testing every driver at every truck weigh station in the country. And that means ALL drivers, since if only a certain type of driver is tested there will be calls of discrimination from the corrupt media. All weigh stations, and they stay open 24hours a day until every single illegal alien is stopped. Since this would overtax the State Police bring in the National Guard to man the weigh stations.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
halfnorsk 8/25/2025 6:10:41 AM (No. 1995050)
As a CDL holder (with multiple undergrad degrees, and graduate studies) I am constantly frightened by the deadly potential of the tractor-trailer that I drive. How a person unable to understand or read English could drive a rig in the US boggles the mind.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
BeatleJeff 8/25/2025 6:45:11 AM (No. 1995063)
That's one of the most appropriate headlines as it relates to the article that I've seen in a long time. Here's the full lyric:
Wheel's on fire
Rolling down the road
Best notify my next of kin
This wheel shall explode
I bet that in 1967 Dylan didn't realize that he was writing about the state of the American trucking industry in 2025. There's nothing that the Rats haven't totally fouled up with their incompetence.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Hazymac 8/25/2025 8:18:17 AM (No. 1995100)
What percentage of these foreign truck drivers can neither speak nor read English (or understand American law)? Ultimately, that's what caused this senseless wreck. Shipping companies are going to have to hire more Americans, and get rid of present and future "Democrat" voters, especially ones like Singh, who should do his prison term before he's permanently deported. Or let the rogue shipping companies go out of business after the lawsuits and the criminal charges. Same as #5, I immediately remembered The Basement Tapes with Dylan and The Band. Better notify my next of kin ....
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Venturer 8/25/2025 8:32:19 AM (No. 1995114)
If they are lagally in the United States and can read and pass a legitimate driver test I have no problem.
If they are not legal and cannot pass get them off the road and now.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
stablemoney 8/25/2025 9:11:47 AM (No. 1995149)
The truck driving profession has been taken over by foreigners and felons out of prison. The prisons promote truck driving as possible employment, as it is obvious the felons cannot get along with anyone.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
varkdriver 8/25/2025 9:29:30 AM (No. 1995164)
#2, I think you meant 80,000 pounds. 40 tons of mass rolling at high speed. I pray for the safety of all L-dotters everywhere
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Chisca 8/25/2025 9:34:20 AM (No. 1995166)
Make it a felony to employ a non citizen and this problem ends pretty quickly.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
felixcat 8/25/2025 9:45:47 AM (No. 1995175)
Hey Prime Minister Modi of India - so you want to keep buying Russian oil, okay. ZERO Indians allowed into this country under any means and the ones here on visas - adios.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
jeffinitely 8/25/2025 9:47:40 AM (No. 1995178)
We take a lot of road trips. It's getting worse, and scarier, out there with what big rigs are doing. We are noticing more often big rigs trying to pass each other ON UPHILLS! Earlier this year, we were on a two lane highway and in the distance, a big rig was passing another and barreling at us in our lane going the opposite way! Thank goodness they flashed their brights! We took it as a warning that they were not able to complete their pass and for us to take evasive action. My wife was driving and safely moved off the road in time.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Socio 8/25/2025 10:04:32 AM (No. 1995193)
How they hell does this happen, why did America need to import 150,000 to 200,000 Sikhs to drive trucks, and this one ethic group alone represents 18% of the truck drivers on the road.
My guess some corrupt politicians are getting paid by the head to allow foreign drivers in the US, putting Americans as risk. They need to be both outed and held personally culpable for the damage to life, limb, and property their actions caused. This is what you might call political malpractice.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 8/25/2025 10:35:22 AM (No. 1995208)
Thanks #9. Yes, tons. A late friend was a long haul truck driver for 20 years. He had to go to a driver school, pass a competency test and a background check before he could get a CDL for that type of vehicle. I don't know what the regulations are now but the requirements should be even stiffer. Maybe not as stringent as what an airline pilot has to go through but close. At the very least, massive fines for hiring an illegal to drive those things. The trucking company should (and will) be sued out of existence but the owners should also be personally sued for manslaughter due to their ignoring the status and incompetence of their drivers while seeking profit over human lives.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Philipsonh 8/25/2025 11:42:45 AM (No. 1995249)
It has nothing to do with the man or the company he worked for and ALL to do with those who tested him and issued the credentials. THEY belong in prison.
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The number of illegal aliens employed as truck drivers is important. The number of Sikhs employed as truck drivers is not.
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