Trucking’s Death Spiral: Safety, Wages, and Foreign Labor | Episode 311

Veteran trucker Gord Magill joins the podcast to dismantle the “driver shortage” myth. He exposes how cheap labor schemes, like Nebraska recruiting Kenyan drivers, fuel exploitation while rates stay low and safety violations rise.

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0:38 Introducing the Fraud Series
1:31 Meet Gordon Magill: Lifelong Trucker
2:45 Nebraska’s Kenyan Driver Initiative
12:13 The Driver Shortage Contradiction
21:51 Competency Crisis in Specialized Trucking
33:44 Detention Problems and Root Causes
45:35 National Security Concerns and ELD Fraud
1:00:21 Building a Trusted Carrier Network