When hardworking Americans flip on the news and see leaders of American Truckers United sounding the alarm, we should listen. Co‑founders Harvey Beech and Shannon Everett went on national TV to expose what every honest trucker already knows: sloppy policies and loopholes are letting non‑citizens operate massive rigs without the vetting our families deserve.
What these whistleblowers described is not hyperbole but a glaring regulatory hole — non‑domiciled commercial learner’s permits and CDLs, employment authorization cards and parole pathways that have been exploited to flood the industry with under‑vetted drivers. The industry and advocacy groups have warned for months that these regulatory shortcuts were pushed under the guise of solving a driver shortage, but the result has been chaotic and dangerous.
The human cost has been terrible: multiple deadly crashes involving drivers whose licensing and background checks were in question forced a long‑overdue federal response. When tragedies happen on our highways, it’s not just a trucking problem — it’s a failure of policy and enforcement that Washington must answer for.
Beyond safety, this is an economic attack on American truckers. Independent owner‑operators and family trucking businesses are being undercut by operators who didn’t follow the same rules, while states continue to juggle inconsistent license standards that reward lawlessness over lawful work. American Truckers United’s own reporting and enforcement actions along major corridors have already shown the scale of the problem.
The lesson is clear: open‑border politics and bureaucratic negligence have real victims — our citizens, our truckers, and our highways. Conservatives have been warning that rewarding shortcuts and illegal work authorization without strict oversight would create safety and national security risks; now Congress and the Department of Transportation must act to close these loopholes and restore common‑sense standards.
If America values the rule of law and the dignity of honest labor, we will back our truckers and demand accountability from states and federal agencies that let this happen. Require English‑language proficiency, strict background checks, and enforce the existing rules — no more political experiments that gamble with American lives. The whistleblowers are right to speak up; patriotic citizens should stand with them and push for laws that protect our highways and our families.
