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

What the heck is going on with your industry? Well, it seems like this issue of unsafe truck drivers in North America is coming to a head on Tuesday, Aug. 12th. We had a terrible incident in Florida involving a driver who came here illegally, a guy who has not assimilated, does not speak English, and was working for a trucking company that did not do any background checks on the driver. What's going on?

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 1.00

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

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

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