Speaker 1: This is America's Trucking Network with Kevin Gordon.
Speaker 2: Welcome aboard, Thanks for tuning in on this Friday morning.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you what for a week that is kind
Speaker 2: of the news has come in kind of normally. It's
Speaker 2: not like there's been a big spike or anything. But
Speaker 2: i'll tell you what. Thursday afternoon and doing show prep,
Speaker 2: there has just been an avalanche of information. I'm going
Speaker 2: to try to get to as much of it as
Speaker 2: I can.
Speaker 3: First of all, I want to start off with a
Speaker 3: little bit of a weather alert.
Speaker 2: We got Hurricane Melissa reorganizing and expected to begin intensifying soon.
Speaker 2: Heavy rains and life threatening flooding expected for portions of
Speaker 2: Hispaniola and Jamaica through the weekend. Again, as I mentioned yesterday,
Speaker 2: it appears as though that this is hanging down in
Speaker 2: the lower part of the Caribbean Sea thereabout, and so
Speaker 2: if you've got travel plans going down there, those are
Speaker 2: in jeopardy pretty much.
Speaker 3: Pretty much.
Speaker 2: Addition to Jamaica, Melissa will produce heavy rainfall across portions
Speaker 2: of southern Dominican Republic southern Haiti. Now right now they're
Speaker 2: not quite sure where this is heading, but the trajectory
Speaker 2: of this. Originally it looked like it was going to
Speaker 2: head north up to Cuba, but it looks like it
Speaker 2: has taken or is taking a left turn and heading
Speaker 2: towards that Yucatan Peninsula. I believe it is. They're off
Speaker 2: in Mexico, so we'll keep an eye on that. It's
Speaker 2: not supposed to be it's going to be. It's a
Speaker 2: slow moving storm, and it's a slow moving hurricane, which
Speaker 2: means that possibly through the weekend and going to be
Speaker 2: heavy rain down there, but then eventually move off and
Speaker 2: move slowly over towards Mexico later on or first part
Speaker 2: of next week. So this is a very slow moving storm,
Speaker 2: but we're keeping an eye on it because again, down
Speaker 2: in the Gulf, we have the Gulf of America, we
Speaker 2: have a lot of oil platforms, we have a lot
Speaker 2: of drilling rigs down there, and also on the coast
Speaker 2: of the coast of Texas, there's a lot of oil
Speaker 2: refineries that could possibly be affected by any type of storm,
Speaker 2: surge or winds, et cetera off of this storm. So
Speaker 2: kind of keep an eye on that. Oil has been
Speaker 2: going crazy. We'll get to that oil actually went up
Speaker 2: five percent and we'll get to that information a little
Speaker 2: bit later. I mentioned at the beginning of the week
Speaker 2: that I wanted to get into this whole discussion about
Speaker 2: illegal immigrant immigration having to do with the trucking industry.
Speaker 2: We had that, you know, the English language proficiency requirement reinforced. Now,
Speaker 2: I mean back had always been part of the Federal
Speaker 2: Motor Carrier Safety Administration guidebook in terms of being able
Speaker 2: to speak the English language, be proficient, and to understand
Speaker 2: road signs. And of course that came into the forefront
Speaker 2: back in back in August with that tragic accident down
Speaker 2: there in Florida, and again last night yesterday afternoon, we
Speaker 2: had another tragic accident with a foreign driver and so on.
Speaker 2: But again we were going to talk about the English
Speaker 2: language proficiency as well as non domiciled CDLs, and I
Speaker 2: kind of put that off because I've been in contact
Speaker 2: with the folks from o Iida, and I wanted to
Speaker 2: get their expertise on that any questions that I had,
Speaker 2: I wanted to make sure that I'm filling in the
Speaker 2: gaps with their perception because quite honestly, they have been
Speaker 2: on this for a number of years. This has been
Speaker 2: a hot topic down mid America Trucking Show last year
Speaker 2: as well as this past you know, in the past spring,
Speaker 2: the spring of this year, and this whole idea that
Speaker 2: issued these licenses will be issued to people that don't
Speaker 2: have English language preferences. And this was suspended during the
Speaker 2: Obama administration back in twenty sixteen, should have been re
Speaker 2: implemented in during the Trump administration, the first Trump administration. However,
Speaker 2: with everything going on in terms of the Russia, Russia,
Speaker 2: Russia and so on, there were so many other things
Speaker 2: that this kind of I guess slipped under the carpet.
Speaker 2: But in the spring, the Trump administration said and been
Speaker 2: talking to o AIDA and the different transportation organizations. They
Speaker 2: put through this mandate executive order. I think it was well,
Speaker 2: it was in late April from the President that they
Speaker 2: were going to now start enforcing the English language preferences.
Speaker 2: Sean Duffy at the time A couple weeks later did
Speaker 2: a mandate himself and issued some guidelines as to what
Speaker 2: had to be done and set as a date June
Speaker 2: twenty fifth for all states to be in compliance with
Speaker 2: that and to review their various licensing to make sure
Speaker 2: that all of those licenses were in accordance with the
Speaker 2: regulations and were up to the guidelines and the standards
Speaker 2: that should have been enforced back as far as twenty
Speaker 2: sixteen before the Obama administration decided to throw those out
Speaker 2: the window and flooded the area with more illegal immigrants
Speaker 2: as well as in the trucking industry itself. So this
Speaker 2: mandate was put out and the deadline was the twenty fifth.
Speaker 2: Now you may recall this hard Genders sing who in
Speaker 2: August caused this accident doing an illegal U turn down
Speaker 2: in Florida, causing an accident killing three family members. He
Speaker 2: had been stopped in July, the July twenty third, actually
Speaker 2: in New Mexico and had the guidelines that were deadline
Speaker 2: as of June the twenty June twenty fifth. If New
Speaker 2: Mexico had been complying with that, he would have been
Speaker 2: placed out of service because the body can information from
Speaker 2: that traffic stop showed that he couldn't recognize any signs,
Speaker 2: he couldn't speak English. And how a state like California
Speaker 2: and Washington, as we found out that that's where he
Speaker 2: got his seat. He got a CDO license in Washington
Speaker 2: as well as in California. How he was able to
Speaker 2: pass any of those exams and be out on the
Speaker 2: road is a mystery. It's criminal in my opinion, that
Speaker 2: a state agency would do that. So in the process
Speaker 2: of this, they went through all of these regulations. They
Speaker 2: also started identifying the different states that were not in compliance,
Speaker 2: sent letters to them that they had a date certain
Speaker 2: to comply, and they wanted to have them updated in
Speaker 2: terms of when things were going to be in compliance
Speaker 2: before they started leving any fines. Now, California and hopefully
Speaker 2: we can get to that a little bit later, has
Speaker 2: been defiant on this and said we've got no problems
Speaker 2: here is we are fully in compliance with federal regulations.
Speaker 2: Well they aren't, and the federal government, Sean Duffy, has
Speaker 2: withheld forty million, at least forty million dollars initially in
Speaker 2: terms of federal funds going into the state of California.
Speaker 2: And as I mentioned yesterday in California, Ontario, California, an
Speaker 2: illegal alien.
Speaker 3: Twenty one years old, and let's go through this.
Speaker 2: Twenty one year old illegal immigrant from India who crossed
Speaker 2: the border in twenty twenty two and was released by
Speaker 2: the Biden administration is now accused of causing a fiery
Speaker 2: semi truck crash that killed three people in southern California,
Speaker 2: multiple federal law enforcement sources tell Fox News. According to
Speaker 2: the federal sources, the suspect, identified as Jash and Preach Singh,
Speaker 2: was first encountered by borne patrol agents in California El
Speaker 2: Centro sector in March of twenty twenty two and released
Speaker 2: into the interior of the country pending an immigration hearing.
Speaker 2: Saying has now been a restaurant suspicion of gross vehicular
Speaker 2: or manslaughter while intoxicated after plowing his rig into slow
Speaker 2: moving traffic on the Iten Freeway in San Bernardino, California.
Speaker 2: This video, I don't know if you've seen it, but
Speaker 2: has been caught on dash camp. This guy, I don't
Speaker 2: know there was you see traffic stopped in front of him,
Speaker 2: and he doesn't even.
Speaker 3: Hit the brakes.
Speaker 2: He hits this rear, ends this car, shoves it into
Speaker 2: a pickup truck that had a bunch of lumber on it,
Speaker 2: slammed and slammed those two vehicles underneath a tractor trailer
Speaker 2: that was in front of them, and then he veers
Speaker 2: off and hits another tractor trailer that was off the
Speaker 2: side of the road being serviced and the service vehicle there.
Speaker 2: The pictures of this and you've got to go on.
Speaker 2: I'm going to post this on Facebook so that you
Speaker 2: can you can see that this is one of the
Speaker 2: most horrific accidents I've ever seen, the fact that these
Speaker 2: and you can see as he's crashing through these vehicles.
Speaker 2: Off to the right hand side, you see a car
Speaker 2: actually exploding into flames. I assume that that's the vehicle,
Speaker 2: one of the vehicles where some of the people died,
Speaker 2: because I don't know how they would have been able
Speaker 2: to get out of that with as much as much
Speaker 2: as big a fireball as that was. We'll pick this
Speaker 2: up coming up. I'm Kevin Gordon, America's truck A Network
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Speaker 2: The more and more I dig into this, and of
Speaker 2: course when we have the folks from Oeidah, we've been
Speaker 2: in contact with them, and I think the first part
Speaker 2: of next week we're going to have Louis Pugh, who's
Speaker 2: executive vice president on talking about this. As I said,
Speaker 2: they have been on this for a number I mean
Speaker 2: probably since twenty sixteen. FMCSA regulations specifically state that people
Speaker 2: obtaining a CDO license must be proficient in the English language,
Speaker 2: which means that not only can they speak it, but
Speaker 2: they also should be able to read these signs. And
Speaker 2: as we saw in that horrific crash in Florida back
Speaker 2: in August, that individual hard gender Sing, and they don't
Speaker 2: see in these stories whether or not the two people
Speaker 2: are related.
Speaker 3: I guess.
Speaker 2: I know. Sing is a very popular name, kind of
Speaker 2: like Smith or Jones in India, So I don't know
Speaker 2: if they're related. They may be distant relatives or whatever,
Speaker 2: but that's not been mentioned in any of these stories.
Speaker 2: But her gender Sing When that crash happened, the reporting
Speaker 2: on that was when he made this illegal U turn
Speaker 2: and this mini van crashed into his vehicle, the look
Speaker 2: on his face was like, ho hum, just another day,
Speaker 2: and all the reports, all the mugshots and everything, he
Speaker 2: had this blank expression on his face, like like he
Speaker 2: had just, you know, maybe clipped a stop sign or something.
Speaker 2: And it's just I don't know what kind of mentality
Speaker 2: or whatever that you could do that and not be
Speaker 2: upset that you had just killed three people. And then
Speaker 2: when we see this accident from yesterday, the same thing,
Speaker 2: a twenty one year old person who probably they don't
Speaker 2: indicate that he had English language proficiency, whether or not
Speaker 2: they don't even mention in these articles whether even had
Speaker 2: a CDO license or not. And as I mentioned in
Speaker 2: the previous segment, this traffic or this dashboard cam watching
Speaker 2: this accident unfold is just absolutely horrific. I mean, it's
Speaker 2: almost like something out of some crazy movie or something.
Speaker 2: And the fact that they do this mugshot of this
Speaker 2: and he has no expression on his face whatsoever, And
Speaker 2: the fact that they don't even mention whether or not
Speaker 2: he was held a CDO license just unbelievable. And again,
Speaker 2: having come into the country in twenty twenty two, three
Speaker 2: years ago, three years ago and caught and released pending
Speaker 2: immigration hearing, and in the meantime in California, he's able
Speaker 2: to get a CDO license and get out on the highway.
Speaker 2: That is just unbelievable. Crash comes after Trump administration announced
Speaker 2: that it would withhold over forty million dollars in federal
Speaker 2: highway safety funds from California because of the state's failure
Speaker 2: to meet federal English language proficiency requirements for truck drivers.
Speaker 2: In August, the US government temporarily suspended the issuance of
Speaker 2: worker visas for commercial truck drivers. The state department spokesperson
Speaker 2: said the PAW was implemented to allow for the comprehensive
Speaker 2: review of the screening and vetting procedures used to assess applicants.
Speaker 2: Applications for US visa. Now this again, I can't emphasize
Speaker 2: enough this dashboard, can This guy didn't even apply the brakes.
Speaker 2: There was no slow down whatsoever. He's already speeding. He's
Speaker 2: coming up on traffic that is at a dead stop
Speaker 2: and just continues to go. This guy had to be
Speaker 2: so drunk that it wasn't even I don't know what
Speaker 2: his blood alcohol level was, but I can't imagine somebody
Speaker 2: not being able to control a vehicle with that and
Speaker 2: not even break for crying out loud. Now, no surprise here,
Speaker 2: but CBS News, okay, they cover this story. Semi truck
Speaker 2: driver who was arrested for driving under the influence following
Speaker 2: a deadly crash and freeway on Ontario on Tuesday, was
Speaker 2: in the United States illegally, according to the officials from
Speaker 2: a Department of Homeland Security. They told CBS News that
Speaker 2: twenty one year old Jishan josh An pre Singh is
Speaker 2: an Indian national who entered the country by crossing Mexico border.
Speaker 2: They go through all his details, he was arrested.
Speaker 3: And so on.
Speaker 2: CBS Sacramento reporters spoke with Singh's best friend, Jirgad Malhar
Speaker 2: on Wednesday evening. He told them that Singh came to
Speaker 2: the US in search of a better life. He's an
Speaker 2: amazing guy. He would talk normally, happily, always with love
Speaker 2: and care. Malhar said, coming from India, it's going to
Speaker 2: be hard to make dollars here, so he wanted to
Speaker 2: keep on going. It's unclear as Singh currently has legal representation.
Speaker 2: Of course, they're worried about whether he's got legal representation
Speaker 2: or not. They're not even focusing on the three people
Speaker 2: who died as a result of him being intoxicated, and
Speaker 2: they don't even bother getting into the fact as to
Speaker 2: whether or not he even has a CDO license or not. This,
Speaker 2: to me is a situation where are spoon fed regurgitators
Speaker 2: in the mainstream media just cannot help help themselves by
Speaker 2: trying to put some sort of a halo around some
Speaker 2: of these illegal immigrants, saying that.
Speaker 3: They're here merely for a better life.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, if you're going to have a better life,
Speaker 2: do things properly, get the proper credentials, learn the English language,
Speaker 2: find out what you need to do, and go on
Speaker 2: from there. I mentioned this a couple of times. When
Speaker 2: you dig into the immigration laws in other countries, and
Speaker 2: how difficult it is to get into those countries and
Speaker 2: to actually work in those countries without having the proper credentials.
Speaker 3: It is almost impossible.
Speaker 2: I mentioned the fact that family member of ours went
Speaker 2: to a different country with her husband, the hoops they
Speaker 2: had to jump through in order to prove that not
Speaker 2: only were they married, the fact that almost a DNA
Speaker 2: sample I guess of the two kids that they have together,
Speaker 2: their two children, proving that they were in fact his
Speaker 2: and before she was able to come into the country,
Speaker 2: he was a legal citizen, so he had dual citizenship
Speaker 2: in that country and in the United States, she had
Speaker 2: to prove to the country that she had a job.
Speaker 2: The employer had to tell them that, yes, she has
Speaker 2: a job. It's not a temporary job. Yes, we plan
Speaker 2: on keeping her. It's not just something that in six
Speaker 2: months she's going to be gone. She's been proven, she
Speaker 2: has a proven track record at our US facility, and
Speaker 2: we're going to have her in this position in this
Speaker 2: country and she's going to be a continued.
Speaker 3: Employee.
Speaker 2: And that's because this country, that particular country that they
Speaker 2: moved to, has a very good or what they overly
Speaker 2: good I guess I should say social benefits that if
Speaker 2: somebody is unemployed, there's no push to get them back
Speaker 2: out in the workforce.
Speaker 3: The disability of hurdles are very low.
Speaker 2: That when somebody is unemployed, there is no time limit
Speaker 2: in terms of you got to get you only have
Speaker 2: six weeks or six months or whatever unemployment. They hand
Speaker 2: the social benefits of these people like it's candy, and
Speaker 2: since they are so generous with that, they don't want
Speaker 2: to waste their resources on somebody from a foreign country.
Speaker 2: So again she had to prove that yes, in fact,
Speaker 2: she had a job, she was going to continue to
Speaker 2: be employed and be in that country legally, and then
Speaker 2: to put insult to injury. After doing all this, jumping
Speaker 2: through all these hoops, having to travel from her home
Speaker 2: in where they were living in northern Kentucky, having to
Speaker 2: make several trips up to the consulate in Chicago, finally
Speaker 2: got everything approved over a six month period of time
Speaker 2: so that they could actually move. And on top of that,
Speaker 2: four years later she gets a letter that says, hey,
Speaker 2: you have not proven yet that you are proficient in
Speaker 2: this language, and if you don't prove that in the
Speaker 2: next six months, you're out of there, even though she's
Speaker 2: a legal resident, even though she's been there for four years.
Speaker 3: And they told her.
Speaker 2: Originally that that that she had to become proficient within
Speaker 2: about a five year period of time, but they said no,
Speaker 2: it was actually four year period of time, and we'll
Speaker 2: give you a six month leeway on this an extension.
Speaker 2: And she had to do a crash course in order
Speaker 2: to learn the language.
Speaker 3: In order to stay even though she was a productive
Speaker 3: member of their society.
Speaker 2: Those are the immigration rules in that country, and they
Speaker 2: are very similar in other countries, and the lack of
Speaker 2: immigration controls in this country is absolutely horrendous. I'm Kevin Gordon,
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Speaker 7: Without warning, without authorization, The East wing of the White
Speaker 7: House is now simply gone. With your twelve thirty report,
Speaker 7: I'm Travis Laird breaking now, new satellite images confirmed the
Speaker 7: complete demolition of the White House East wing as crews
Speaker 7: prepare to build a three hundred million dollar ballroom. The
Speaker 7: administration previously said the renovation would not affect the existing structure,
Speaker 7: but heavy equipment moved in earlier this week, and by Tuesday,
Speaker 7: most of the wing had been torn down. Federal planners
Speaker 7: say they have not yet reviewed the final construction plans
Speaker 7: because they have not been submitted. The White House says
Speaker 7: that will happen soon. Here's ABC's Mary Bruce the stark images.
Speaker 8: Where the East Wing of the White House once stood
Speaker 8: now just a pile of rubble, demolished to make way
Speaker 8: for President Trump's ballroom, which Trump once said would cost
Speaker 8: two hundred and fifty million dollars and now says we'll
Speaker 8: run some three hundred million dollars.
Speaker 7: The White House says the project is privately funded. No
Speaker 7: word on when it is expected to be completed.
Speaker 9: As we head to daybreak for Friday, it's a clear
Speaker 9: and cold start. Freeze warning is out seven am temperature
Speaker 9: of thirty four, but most other communities at thirty two
Speaker 9: or less. The rest of our Friday is sunshine and
Speaker 9: chile a high of fifty seven. At night we're clouding
Speaker 9: up and a low of forty. That's the forecast. I'm
Speaker 9: nine First Warning Chief Meteorologists Steve Rowley right now thirty
Speaker 9: eight degrees in Cincinnati. That freeze warning remaining in effect
Speaker 9: from one am to nine am.
Speaker 3: On Friday.
Speaker 7: On Sunday afternoon, the Bengals will be facing the Jets.
Speaker 7: That should be pretty good. Kickoff is at one o'clock.
Speaker 7: The weather should be about sixty cloudy, pretty nice, better
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Speaker 7: Property taxes are front and center on ballots and agendas
Speaker 7: from Columbus to Cincinnati. Citizens for Property Reform says it's
Speaker 7: gathered well over one hundred signatures one hundred thousand signatures
Speaker 7: excuse me for a constitutional amendment to abolish property taxes entirely.
Speaker 7: Lawmakers are responding with bipartisan relief bills that cap how
Speaker 7: much school districts can collect from rising home values, savings
Speaker 7: Republicans say will total two point four billion dollars over
Speaker 7: three year. Hamilton County commissioners are considering a local homestead
Speaker 7: exemption that would cut tax bills for older adults, disabled residents,
Speaker 7: and veterans, but it could cost local governments up to
Speaker 7: thirty four million dollars in lost revenue. Butler County Issue
Speaker 7: one would renew funding for the Elderly Services Program and
Speaker 7: add a small property tax increase about fifty dollars a
Speaker 7: year per one hundred thousand dollars of value to help
Speaker 7: keep coming to keep help coming for more than four
Speaker 7: thousand seniors and in New Richmond, the school district has
Speaker 7: been placed in state fiscal caution after projecting multi year
Speaker 7: budget deficits officials blaming the loss of two major power
Speaker 7: plants that once supplied a third of their revenue. The
Speaker 7: district's income tax levy on the ballot is considered its
Speaker 7: main path to recovery. Failure could mean more than two
Speaker 7: million dollars in cuts, affecting staff and residents. Your next
Speaker 7: update is at one o'clock Breaking news any time. I'm
Speaker 7: Travis Laird News Radio seven hundred WLW.
Speaker 10: Here's your trucking forecast. So the Try State and the
Speaker 10: rest of the country and the Try State overnight of
Speaker 10: freeze warning will be in effect as temveratures drop into
Speaker 10: the lower thirties with clear skies, frosts early for your
Speaker 10: Friday than sunny skies as temperatures rebound. The high year
Speaker 10: sixty partly Sunday Saturday a high of fifty nine partly
Speaker 10: Sunday skies continue Sunday eyes again into the upper fifties. Nationally,
Speaker 10: a slight risk of excessive rainfalls seen over parts of
Speaker 10: the Southern Plains Friday and then into the Mississippi Valley
Speaker 10: and western Gulf Coast Saturday, Friday and Saturday, bringing a
Speaker 10: slight risk of severe storms to portions of the Southern Plains. Meanwhile,
Speaker 10: light snow seen over parts of the Cascades, Sawtooth Mountains
Speaker 10: and Central Rockies now into Saturday.
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Speaker 3: And we certainly appreciate that tip.
Speaker 2: Of the hat because again I've talked about this non
Speaker 2: domicile English English language proficiency requirement from FMCSA as far
Speaker 2: as being able to obtain, to obtain and continue a
Speaker 2: CDL license. We have seen stories over the last couple
Speaker 2: of the last several months of where there are these
Speaker 2: illegal licensing companies, people that are issuing these licenses, People
Speaker 2: at the DMV or at the state level, have been
Speaker 2: bribed and paid off in order to allow these CDLs
Speaker 2: to be issued. They have to you know, normally, and
Speaker 2: the even the business guys that are the truckers out there,
Speaker 2: you know this. But as far as the general driving
Speaker 2: public that listen to this program, and that's a large
Speaker 2: chunk of our audience, you not only have to go
Speaker 2: to a course and prove that you can do a
Speaker 2: written exam, then you have to do the safety feature
Speaker 2: of that, and you actually have to pass a road test.
Speaker 2: And in instances these things have been forged. There have
Speaker 2: been counterfeit drivers' licenses that have been issued, and there
Speaker 2: are illegal or less than well nefarious I guess you said,
Speaker 2: say very nefarious. Actually driving schools that miraculously one hundred
Speaker 2: percent of the people that pay the fee graduate and
Speaker 2: then those numbers are falsified apparently, and then they have
Speaker 2: a connection with the DMV and they get these licenses issued. Now,
Speaker 2: how does somebody how do you put somebody behind the
Speaker 2: wheel of an eighty thousand pound vehicle eighty thousand pounds
Speaker 2: that requires significant skills in order to learning how to
Speaker 2: not only drive that, I mean, it's one thing to
Speaker 2: drive it in a straight line. But it's also you
Speaker 2: have to know how far it takes you to stop.
Speaker 2: I mean, if you've ever driven a truck that's hauling something,
Speaker 2: a pickup truck or a trailer, you know that the
Speaker 2: stopping distance on that is a lot lot longer than
Speaker 2: if you're driving in a normal sedan or an suv.
Speaker 2: You can hit the brakes pretty quick and come to
Speaker 2: a stop. But the time it takes for a even
Speaker 2: a pickup truck hauling something that has a load on
Speaker 2: it to be able to stop then, I mean not
Speaker 2: only the distance is required in order to stop, but
Speaker 2: the turning radius.
Speaker 3: It's not like you pull into a you pull up.
Speaker 2: To an intersection with like a car and turn. There
Speaker 2: is a skill set in order to turn an eighteen
Speaker 2: wheeler into a lane if you're making a right turn,
Speaker 2: left turn, et cetera. Not to mention how difficult it
Speaker 2: is to back up one of those big rigs in
Speaker 2: order to get it into a parking space or to
Speaker 2: the delivery portion that doc at wherever you're doing the delivery,
Speaker 2: and the necessary skills for that. The road tests the
Speaker 2: schools for these CDO licenses are a six week test
Speaker 2: and they get out on the road and get real
Speaker 2: real world experience on this, and when they're done with that,
Speaker 2: they know the rules of the road. They can take
Speaker 2: the test, the written test, then they can do the
Speaker 2: safety exam, and then they can go out and prove their.
Speaker 3: Road skills in order to get a CDO license.
Speaker 2: Now, how would anybody in their right mind allow somebody?
Speaker 2: I mean that's almost like it would almost be like
Speaker 2: handing a toddler a loaded gun and say, go out
Speaker 2: in the yard and play with it. Eighty thousand pound
Speaker 2: vehicle traveling down the highway at sixty seventy miles an
Speaker 2: hour in certain instances, this is like a missile going
Speaker 2: down the road. How somebody can sleep at night knowing
Speaker 2: that they have issued driver's licenses to people CDL licenses
Speaker 2: to people that can't handle a rig and putting the
Speaker 2: driving public in jeopardy. And then to have states like
Speaker 2: California that say, ah, you know, English language preferences, No
Speaker 2: big deal, we don't have to we don't even have
Speaker 2: to comply with that. You know, we've been issuing these
Speaker 2: and we're in compliance with the fil may maybe in
Speaker 2: compliance with what the federal government wasn't enforcing because back
Speaker 2: in twenty sixteen when they stopped enforcing that law, maybe
Speaker 2: they're in compliance with that, but in terms of the
Speaker 2: regulations that are stipulated by the FMCSA, they are not
Speaker 2: in compliance with that. And a tip of the hat
Speaker 2: to Overdrive magazine because they came out with an article
Speaker 2: back in July and it was updated in August the
Speaker 2: twenty fourth. After that our genders sing caused that accident
Speaker 2: down in Florida and killed those three people doing that
Speaker 2: illegal U turn. They did an in depth study in
Speaker 2: terms of reporting the levels of first ever real data
Speaker 2: reveals at least sixty thousand active non domiciled CDLs. After
Speaker 2: months of fact finding and correspondence with fifty state governments,
Speaker 2: Overdrive has for the first time a history in history
Speaker 2: revealed the true story of the rise of non domiciled
Speaker 2: commercial driver's licenses CDLs issuance in the United States a
Speaker 2: new twenty page and they'd go through the downloadable copy
Speaker 2: of this evidence shows that more than sixty thousand non
Speaker 2: domiciled CDLs issued, many clustered in seven states. Thirty two
Speaker 2: states offered data on non domiciled CDL issuances and trends
Speaker 2: seven states definitely don't issue non domiciled CDLs, Eleven states
Speaker 2: do issue non domicilt CDLs, but don't track the volume
Speaker 2: of licenses issued. Looking back over ten years, the trend
Speaker 2: shows an increasing number of don domiciled CDLs, likewise their
Speaker 2: share of total CDLs issued. Now, what else they found
Speaker 2: in this and with the review that was done then
Speaker 2: issued by the Transportation Department under Sean Duffy, with this
Speaker 2: mandate that was supposed to be complied with by June
Speaker 2: twenty fifth, they wanted to know whether or not what
Speaker 2: where these how many were issued, if they were issued properly,
Speaker 2: and whether or not they have in place the different
Speaker 2: checks and balances to make.
Speaker 3: Sure that these are legally issued.
Speaker 2: What they were finding is that and we had this
Speaker 2: story a couple of weeks ago too, and I want
Speaker 2: to get to the bottom of that with Ida Oeida
Speaker 2: as to where these you know, had that story about
Speaker 2: own name licenses being issued, and the explanation on that
Speaker 2: was that so called certain cultures only have mononym in
Speaker 2: terms of names, so people are only known by one name,
Speaker 2: which is kind of crazy because just about every time
Speaker 2: you see somebody being arrested from whatever country and when
Speaker 2: you're talking about foreign dignitaries, none of them have just
Speaker 2: one name. So where this comes from, I have no clue.
Speaker 2: And what people were making a note of is that
Speaker 2: on the license in the spot where you know, they
Speaker 2: have the last name listed, but as far as the
Speaker 2: first name, it says no name given. Now it is
Speaker 2: possible that if somebody only has one name, that yes,
Speaker 2: possibly they could get a driver's license if they proved everything.
Speaker 2: But what they were finding under these investigations, and there's
Speaker 2: some of these issued that people were issued see which
Speaker 2: are in the country not only their non domicile they're
Speaker 2: not even legal citizens, or not even have a work permit.
Speaker 2: In some cases their work permit had expired months and
Speaker 2: years before their license was issued. Some were issued in
Speaker 2: between when they were illegal or had legal status, and
Speaker 2: then the CDL license was issued not to expire when
Speaker 2: their work permit ended, but like four years later so
Speaker 2: they could get the license issued their work permit ends,
Speaker 2: and then for three and a half years be driving.
Speaker 3: With a CDL. Just absolutely in absolute insanity.
Speaker 2: With the number of people looking for work out there
Speaker 2: in the trucking industry, this has created some problems because
Speaker 2: I have been hearing forever from you know, we keep
Speaker 2: hearing all these things about a driver shortage when inc
Speaker 2: there is really no driver shortage. There is a lot
Speaker 2: of people that are unqualified that are getting these jobs,
Speaker 2: that are taking jobs away from qualified drivers, and that
Speaker 2: is what is creating a lot of the problems in
Speaker 2: the trucking industry. At this point, we'll pick this up
Speaker 2: a little bit more. Coming up, I'm Kevin Gordon, America's
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Speaker 2: Following up with this again, you know we're talking about
Speaker 2: non domicile drivers as well as English language proficiency, whether
Speaker 2: or not they're in compliance with that. And again want
Speaker 2: to reiterate the fact that back in April, Trump did
Speaker 2: an executive orders saying that this needed to be tightened up,
Speaker 2: that they were no longer going to be issuing CDLs
Speaker 2: or permits of being able to drive vehicles back in
Speaker 2: eighteen wheelers. Back in April, there was an executive order
Speaker 2: on May the twenties, Sean Duffy announced guidelines that were
Speaker 2: going to be inforced and the deadline for states to
Speaker 2: comply with that was June twenty fifth July twenty third,
Speaker 2: that har Gender Singh, who caused that accident down in
Speaker 2: Florida that killed three people, was pulled over in New
Speaker 2: Mexico on July the twenty third, which was after that
Speaker 2: June twenty fifth deadline, and he was talked to. The
Speaker 2: body cam indicates that he couldn't pass the English language proficiency,
Speaker 2: that he couldn't identify road signs, and he should have
Speaker 2: been pulled off the road at that point, but was
Speaker 2: only issued a ticket and sent on his way. Then
Speaker 2: less than a month later, a little bit a little
Speaker 2: over less than a month later, on August the twelfth,
Speaker 2: caused that horrific accident down in Florida that actually killed
Speaker 2: three people. And when they pulled aside and ask him,
Speaker 2: couldn't speak English, could only identify two out of twelve
Speaker 2: road signs. Now, how any hell do you drive an
Speaker 2: eighteen wheeler where you're supposed to go from point A
Speaker 2: to point B and whatever and not be able to
Speaker 2: read road signs, what exit to take, when to take it,
Speaker 2: how to take it?
Speaker 3: How do you do that?
Speaker 2: And especially you're talking again, I can't emphasize enough an
Speaker 2: eighty thousand pound vehicle and whether or not some of
Speaker 2: these people actually got the driving skills, whether they actually
Speaker 2: passed the test, or if they were issued a fraudulent
Speaker 2: CDO license. What companies are hiring these people, who in
Speaker 2: their right mind would allow these people out on the highway.
Speaker 2: Back in October it was the resist, well, actually back
Speaker 2: in October.
Speaker 3: Here in October.
Speaker 2: On October the sixteenth, they gave a result of states
Speaker 2: targeted by DOT respond to non domiciled CDL. US Department
Speaker 2: of Transportation order all states to stop issuing non domicile
Speaker 2: commercial driver's license after an audit found rule violations in
Speaker 2: six states. California, Colorado, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Texas, and Washington
Speaker 2: have suspended related licensing and are reviewing procedures to comply
Speaker 2: with new federal standards, even though California has taken basically
Speaker 2: a step back of that and is slow walking that
Speaker 2: six states singled out of the Department of Transportation for
Speaker 2: failing to follow federal rules. Now, South Dakota was one
Speaker 2: of the first ones to acknowledge that it identified issues,
Speaker 2: and the story here goes through Pennsylvania and what Pennsylvania
Speaker 2: has done, Colorado, Washington, Texas, I'll post a lot of
Speaker 2: this on my Facebook page over the weekend, because this
Speaker 2: is just I can't believe that this has gone on
Speaker 2: as long as it's gone on, and these states that
Speaker 2: when they when you hear about something that is tragic
Speaker 2: accident or something that could have been prevented, you would
Speaker 2: think that the common sense would say, do we have
Speaker 2: any event in this state? The people in charge the
Speaker 2: transportation departments of each state, we are we in compliance
Speaker 2: with this? Have we let stuff slip through the cracks?
Speaker 2: Because we certainly want to protect the driving public out
Speaker 2: there and make sure that only qualified drivers are out there.
Speaker 2: But how April the mandate comes down, the federal executive
Speaker 2: order came down from Trump. You're talking about April, You're
Speaker 2: talking about May, June, July, August, September, and now mostly
Speaker 2: through October. That some of these states still haven't complied.
Speaker 2: It is just absolutely mind boggling to me. That and
Speaker 2: then California says, I love this headline. We won't be
Speaker 2: able to get to it here, but I'll probably post
Speaker 2: it on Facebook or maybe pick it up and talk
Speaker 2: about it. On Tuesday, California says English language tests a
Speaker 2: roadside for truck rivers not needed even after they were fined,
Speaker 2: or forty million dollars in Transportation Department funds were withheld
Speaker 2: from them. I mean, how nuts are those people out there?
Speaker 2: And to blame the federal government. That is a heavy
Speaker 2: hand of the federal government when you got people dying
Speaker 2: on your highway and just yesterday three more people died
Speaker 2: as a result of a drunk twenty one year old
Speaker 2: foreign national illegal alien driving an eighteen wheeler in drunk
Speaker 2: on top of it, unbelievable. Let's take a look at
Speaker 2: a while on gas prices real quick here, because boy,
Speaker 2: I'll tell you what talking about news popping in this direction.
Speaker 2: West Texas Intermediate crewed currently is at sixty one dollars
Speaker 2: and seventy eight cents. It is up three dollars and
Speaker 2: twenty eight cents just since yesterday, or five point sixty
Speaker 2: one percent. Brent crude currently is sixty five dollars and
Speaker 2: ninety three cents, up three dollars and thirty four cents,
Speaker 2: up five point three four percent just in one day.
Speaker 2: Oil surges five percent after US sanctions. Russian firmeds Rosneft
Speaker 2: and Luke oil oil prices surged round five percent on
Speaker 2: a two week high on Thursday after US imposed sanctions
Speaker 2: on major Russian suppliers Rosneft and Luke Oil over Russian
Speaker 2: Ukraine over Russia's war in Ukraine. Sanctions could reduce global
Speaker 2: oil supplies since Russian Russia was the world's second biggest
Speaker 2: crude producer in twenty twenty four, after the US, according
Speaker 2: to US Energy data, that put both crew benchmarks on
Speaker 2: track for their biggest day percentage gains since mid June
Speaker 2: and their highest closes since October the eighth. According to
Speaker 2: David Oxley, chief Climate and Commodities Economists to Capitol Economics,
Speaker 2: the announcement of sanctions by US on Rosneft and Luke
Speaker 2: Oil is a major escalation in the targeting of Russia's
Speaker 2: energy sector and could be a big enough shock to
Speaker 2: flip the global oil market into a deficit next year. Now,
Speaker 2: there's been a lot of talk about there being this
Speaker 2: oversupply of oil that the EIA has been saying that
Speaker 2: we're going to have an oil glut next year. Phil Flynn,
Speaker 2: our friend Phil Flynn with Price Futures Group and his
Speaker 2: Energy Report over the last several weeks, has been talking
Speaker 2: about I don't see an oil glut. What I'm seeing
Speaker 2: is that we're going to have a shortage and a
Speaker 2: short supply where we may see these oil prices go
Speaker 2: down for now, but once it's found out that we
Speaker 2: don't have the oil supply that we need, this is
Speaker 2: going to go up.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: These sanctions on Russia is needed because Russia continues this
Speaker 2: war in Ukraine, and as Donald Trump has pointed out,
Speaker 2: he gets on the phone with Vladimir Putin. Vladimir Putin says, ye,
Speaker 2: I'm going to comply. I'm going to do this. We'll
Speaker 2: work towards this. They actually talk about the possibility of
Speaker 2: having a meeting. They get off the phone, and he
Speaker 2: escalates the war, starts attacking more cities and more people
Speaker 2: in Ukraine. Then Trump it gets back on the phone
Speaker 2: with him and they go back and forth, and Trump
Speaker 2: has gotten to the point where he said he is
Speaker 2: not only frustrated, but poed at Vladimir Putin and said,
Speaker 2: through these sanctions, we are going to cripple their economy
Speaker 2: because as you saw back in twenty twenty, when we
Speaker 2: were energy independent for the first time since nineteen forty nine,
Speaker 2: the Russian economy was suffering because we were producing We
Speaker 2: were driving the bus on energy prices. They could not
Speaker 2: sell their oil as at a decent price and make
Speaker 2: money at it because, as we've talked about before, nobody
Speaker 2: drills for oil cheaper, cleaner, or safer than the United States.
Speaker 2: Their economy was hurting. Iran's economy was hurting because they
Speaker 2: weren't selling There were sanctions, and they weren't selling enough oil.
Speaker 2: During the Biden administration, all bets were off. Russia started
Speaker 2: making more money with their oil because we were suspending
Speaker 2: and holding back on our oil production. Their profits went up.
Speaker 2: Russia had more money. They built up their army even
Speaker 2: more and said, you know what, instead of making our
Speaker 2: lives fine for our people and improving their lives, let's
Speaker 2: go invade a country.
Speaker 3: And so that's what they've done.
Speaker 2: And in order to stop that and pull that back,
Speaker 2: Trump has put these additional sanctions on and the European
Speaker 2: Union is doing the same. Well, folks, we're up against
Speaker 2: clock here. Time for us to scoot out the door.
Speaker 2: Have a great weekend. Stay tuned for red Eye Radio
Speaker 2: at the top the hour. I'm Kevin Gordon, America's Struck
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Speaker 11: On the twenty fourth day of the shutdown. My government
Speaker 11: gave to me a ballroom, but not my paycheck, but
Speaker 11: the top of the hour reports I'm Ley Mawen breaking now.
Speaker 6: Donald Trump is telling the American people, no medicaid for you, the.
Speaker 11: Ballroom for me, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. As the
Speaker 11: second longest government shutdown continues and many federal workers will
Speaker 11: not be getting paid today.
Speaker 12: The Pentagon diverted money in its budget to prevent military
Speaker 12: families from missing their paychecks earlier this month, but as
Speaker 12: their next payday approaches, it's unclear if they will get
Speaker 12: paid this time this as forty two million low income
Speaker 12: Americans relying on the federal food assistance programs SNAP are
Speaker 12: now bracing for benefits to run out in just days.
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Speaker 11: The Senate tried on Thursday to pass the same two
Speaker 11: bills that were previously rejected to the same tune again.
Speaker 11: Democratic leaders want talks to cheaper health care for Americans.
Speaker 11: Republicans don't want to talk until the government reopens.
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Speaker 11: A four year old autistic boy was found unresponsive in
Speaker 11: the Claremont County pool Thursday afternoon. Police reported to a
Speaker 11: State Route one thirty two Holm in Emelia near Whitebirch
Speaker 11: Lane around three thirty. The child reportedly got away from
Speaker 11: the father and made his way to the outside pool.
Speaker 11: The father, once realizing the child was missing, I went
Speaker 11: to the pool and found the boy on responsive. Pierce
Speaker 11: Township Police Chief Paul Broxterman told Local twelve they believed
Speaker 11: to have foul a pulse on the boy as they
Speaker 11: were en route to the hospital. The child remains in
Speaker 11: the Cincinnati Children's ICU at this time, the status unknown.
Speaker 11: A teenage boy collapses while playing baseball Thursday night in Lawrenceburg,
Speaker 11: happening at the complex known as the Cap before six
Speaker 11: point thirty. The fourteen year old was running the bases
Speaker 11: when he collapsed. Dispatched radio to possibility of the boy
Speaker 11: hitting his head as he fell. The teenager was flowed
Speaker 11: to UC Medical Center, His condition unknown at this time.
Speaker 11: The City of Cincinnati hiring an outside firm to run
Speaker 11: a leadership effectives investigation into police Chief Teresa Thiji, who
Speaker 11: was placed on leave earlier this week. A city spokesperson
Speaker 11: confirmed the decision to WCPO nine News as they planned
Speaker 11: to engage outside council for this investigation. The city Solicitor's
Speaker 11: office has not picked a firm at this time. Theji
Speaker 11: is represented by the Finny Law Firm and Attorney Stephen
Speaker 11: m is holding firm. She has no intentions nor doess,
Speaker 11: to resign.
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Speaker 11: In the second day of practice for the Bengals, Trey Hendrickson,
Speaker 11: Matt Lee, and cam Sample were limited. Tanner Hudson, Sadric Johnson,
Speaker 11: and Charlie Jones went full. Marco Wilson did not practice Also,
Speaker 11: according to the esbn's Ben Baby, Bengals middle linebacker Logan
Speaker 11: Wilson has requested a trade out of Cincinnati. The move
Speaker 11: comes after Wilson registered just twelve defensive snaps in the
Speaker 11: loss in Green Bay and twenty six and the Thursday
Speaker 11: night football win over the Steelers. The Bengals host of
Speaker 11: New York Jets Sunday afternoon at one o'clock. Coverage begins
Speaker 11: that morning at nine on seven hundred WLW. Red's considering
Speaker 11: trading starting pitcher Hunter Green during the offseason. According to
Speaker 11: the athletics Jim Bowden, He's put out a list of
Speaker 11: the top ten MLB stars most likely to be traded.
Speaker 11: Green is at number three. The Reds have the right
Speaker 11: hander under contract through the twenty twenty ninth season. Bowden
Speaker 11: hasn't been able to confirm since Night's desire to do such,
Speaker 11: but believes the team can get a bundle. Our next
Speaker 11: update is with Travis Layer to the bottom of the hour.
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