From North America to Australia, Migrant Truckers Are Fueling a Highway Safety Crisis
20th July 2025
Three weeks after President Trump’s Executive Order reinstated enforcement of English language proficiency requirements for American truck drivers—regulations that had been waived by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration in 2016 under President Obama—a growing number of unsafe and non-English-speaking drivers are being removed from U.S. highways and placed ‘Out of Service’ until they can demonstrate basic English communication skills.
This is a great start to helping clean up America’s roads and preventing unvetted and mostly untrained insourced labor from causing any further carnage on our highways. There remains a lot of work to do, however, as the issue of ‘Ghost’ and ‘Chameleon Carriers’ who employ low skill and low quality drivers remains. It is also being reveled that the Electronic Logging Device mandate, which placed a Fourth Amendment shredding piece of Surveillance Technology in American Big Rigs under the pretext of increasing safety by digitally tracking truckers Hours of Service compliance, has been circumscribed by ‘Backdooring’, where ‘ELD’ services located in Eastern Europe log into these devices and alter truckers hours. This allows shady companies in America, often owned by Serbian or Russian gangsters, to employ their co-nationals in what amount to literal ‘slave driving’ operations.