Juno News - In this week’s episode, host Alexander Brown is joined by veteran trucker, Gord Magill

00:00:00.000 what the heck is going on with your industry well hi alex uh thank you for having me and thank you

00:00:05.440 to the folks at juno news um i will alert your readers to the fact that you were one of like

00:00:10.720 the first 20 people on my own podcast so thank you for returning the favor there you go what's

00:00:15.920 going on well it seems like this issue of um very unsafe truck drivers in north america is coming

00:00:26.240 to a head on tuesday august 12th we had this terrible incident in florida it's been one of

00:00:32.960 many and for the first couple of days after the incident not much of it was discussed outside of

00:00:38.800 the people like myself who look into trucking crashes accidents and the overall health of the

00:00:43.760 industry three days after the accident dash cam footage looking at the driver was released um i

00:00:51.600 I think by my friend, Ike, at a YouTube channel called Bonehead Truckers, and it went viral

00:00:57.500 immediately. And then the political fight started because as the Florida Highway Patrol and other

00:01:04.000 relevant authorities in Florida began investigating it, it had all the markings of all of the other

00:01:10.580 larger, bigger scale problems in North America. A guy who came here illegally, a guy that has not

00:01:16.980 assimilated does not speak english uh may was issued his cdl illegally by washington state and

00:01:23.660 then had it transferred to california and california didn't do any background checks on

00:01:27.920 whatsoever and now he's working for one of these sort of uh scummy little trucking companies that

00:01:33.840 seem to escape any action by the authorities because we have an issue in the united states

00:01:40.080 called chameleon carriers uh some of us in the industry call it where um one organization will

00:01:46.640 a number of llcs and then they use the sort of open market and motor carrier registration numbers

00:01:52.400 in the united states to avoid any accountability so let's say a gentleman like mr singh would have

00:01:59.520 been involved in more inspections or got caught at scales truck put out of service whatever you

00:02:05.200 accrue points what happens is is that these companies will take the trucks and the drivers

00:02:10.880 and then just switch the name transfer it to another entity and keep going despite the fact

00:02:15.360 they've racked up all their points. Like in the province of Ontario, they're called CVOR,

00:02:20.400 commercial vehicle operator record. And once you rack up so many points, the government will come

00:02:27.360 in and try and do its best to figure out what's going on, may up their enforcement actions, fines,

00:02:35.040 maybe even pull trucks off the road. That system in the United States has been completely compromised

00:02:40.880 by this chameleon carrier issue and the chameleon carrier issue overlaps with the illegal immigration

00:02:46.640 issue because most of the drivers those people employ are recent arrivals who don't understand

00:02:52.960 how the industry is actually supposed to function.

Juno News - August 27, 2025