Misuse of B-1 visas undercuts US trucking industry, observers say

[Mike]

Jessie Maldonado’s family’s trucking company has been in business for around 30 years in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico.

The cross-border firm also has operations across several other Mexican cities, as well as a location in Laredo, Texas.

“It took my family’s business years to get to 500 trucks, open offices in Mexico and the United States,” Maldonado said. “About five, six years ago, you started seeing these companies around Laredo start with one truck, then a year later they have 100, 200 trucks. How did they grow so fast, we wondered?”

Maldonado, whose name has been changed for this story, spoke to FreightWaves on condition of anonymity out of fear of retribution.

“I asked some of these transportation companies, ’How can you grow so fast?’ They tell me they use B-1 visa drivers but don’t pay taxes with the drivers,” Maldonado said. “They pay their B-1 drivers in cash or checks with the B-1 driver’s name. In reality, neither the company or the B-1 driver are paying taxes on that income.”

Misuse of B-1 visas undercuts US trucking industry, observers say

Trucking industry professionals said the misuse of B-1 visa drivers creates an unjust but significant savings to U.S. carriers that set up outsourced B-1 driver fleets at a lower cost. Sources said the misuse of B-1 visa drivers creates an unjust but significant savings to U.S. carriers that set...

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[Rigjockey]

I want the be the first one to chime in and say, No driver should ever have to cross the border ever!
Each respective country can drop off and pick up their shit at the border.
There, I just solved the B-1 Visa conundrum and all other conundrums may they be real or perceived.

You're welcome!

 

[Duck]

“I asked some of these transportation companies, ’How can you grow so fast?’ They tell me they use B-1 visa drivers but don’t pay taxes with the drivers,” Maldonado said. “They pay their B-1 drivers in cash or checks with the B-1 driver’s name. In reality, neither the company or the B-1 driver are paying taxes on that income.”

Even with such tax savings, they're not growing that fast without some "help" from big globalist money interests.

Remember during the Bush Junior era it was a trial thing, they were doing lots of inspections and they needed "evidence" to "disprove" OOIDAs claim that Mexican trucks would be poorly maintained and dangerous, driven by unqualified drivers. So Pumpkin and a few others were pumping money into these fleets so they'd pass inspections. Mexican carriers were driving nice new equipment across the border.

Pepperidge Farm remembers.