Illegal turning in a foreign Indian truck truck driver could recently affect the wealth of the US industry of commercial transport.
Punjabi Harjinder Singh driver carelessly used only a segment on the highway to suddenly turn illegal U in the last second, and stretched his truck trailer over two stripes of the highway, which led to the minivan to kill him directly into it, killed the driver and two passengers.
The accident occurred on August 12 in St. Lucie County in Florida.
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The results came earlier and more drastic than expected. American Foreign Minister, Marco Rubio, tweeted 22nd August: “We will immediately stop all issuing work visas for drivers of commercial trucks. The growing number of foreign drivers operates large trucks on American roads on American roads.”
This should be considered a blow to Indian truckers who have introduced their goods in the US for several years and have done successfully.
Singh, who allegedly crossed the US border in 2018, acquired a commercial driving license in California, did what illegal immigrants often do: to abuse the law approved in California in 2013, allowing residents to obtain driving licenses regardless of their immigration status.
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The incident has released political rivalry out. “The biden administration effort to hire foreign drivers to fulfill the lack of truckers, created dangerously dangerous roads for Americans,” the American website Infowars.
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The Trump inauguration, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs canceled more than twice as much visa compared to the same period in 2024, revealed an official because the White House seeks to emphasize its interventions against foreigners claiming to be risks for public security, Bloomberg reported.
Although no data are available for Indians who are likely to be affected because of this new policy, 1,490 H-2B visas for truckers were issued in 2025 in 2025. Last year this number was 1,400.
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According to the North American Association Punjabi Trucking Association (DOTTA), in 2018 there were about 30,000 Sikhs in the US transport industry. This number could increase significantly.
The voltage now has an estimated membership of 1,400 and about 9,000 trucks with each other. His CEO Raman Dhillon told the local magazine that the undocumented Indians from Pandjab would become trucks. “There is a serious shortage of drivers and pandjabs fill this gap,” he said.
This deficiency was best reflected in Brent Allen’s views, an American insider for transport that responded to the Rubia offer, tweet: “Hopefully this driver’s pause will be short -term to be in new guarantees such as physical tests and driver testing because the US currently has much less commercial drivers than commercial reserve.”
Indian origin drivers in the US are part of various regional associations such as Napta, and are represented through wider industrial groups such as US transport associations that focus on problems such as licensing, well -being workers and industrial regulations.
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