Trius Trucking Denied H-2B Visa Request for 40 Truck Drivers

[Freight Relocators]

Trius Trucking in California was denied its bid to hire foreign drivers under the H-2B visa program after failing to meet filing requirements. The company blamed high turnover rates due to the pandemic for its need for temporary drivers but couldn’t establish that need according to Department of Labor standards. The filing errors led to an outright rejection. What are your thoughts on the challenges faced by trucking companies in recruiting drivers? Are foreign workers the solution, or do we need deeper industry changes?

Trius Trucking’s Bid to Hire H-2B Truck Drivers Denied by Department of Labor - Freight Relocators

Trius Trucking’s H-2B visa request denied due to filing errors and failure to justify driver needs. High turnover cited but not substantiated

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[Electric Chicken]

H-2B should be an automatic rejection for trucking. There's no driver shortage.

 

[Rigjockey]

Here we have a TFW's Temporary Foreign workers and LMIA workers LMIA being Labor Market Impact Assessment. LMIA a company must prove they can not hire a Canadian to do the job. That is easily done when you file all Canadian applications in the circular file and advertise pay well below market value. This has driven down wages substantially!
I hope America does not go down that same road and they were right to deny H-2B visas. Driver turnover rates probably have something to do with labor standards and pay of the company trying to import workers. Pay market value, abide by labor standards and there will be no shortage of drivers.
H-2B visas issued for a job like truck driver will only result in wage suppression and compromise safety on the roads.

 

[389 Hood]

Offer a substantial pay and benefit package and they will be knocking at your door. Those are the companies that hire by word of mouth. If you open up a job posting site and see the same companies with standing ads, those are the ones to just skip right over, because those standing ads are there for a reason.

Then if you should get a look at the equipment, it's old, antiquated, the drivers are 'dirty' looking, no uniform look to their clothing and there isn't a straight front bumper in the fleet. Sorta reminds me of Penn Tank Lines down here. What a motley crew they are.

 

[Hillbilly Canuck]

Here we have a TFW's Temporary Foreign workers and LMIA workers LMIA being Labor Market Impact Assessment. LMIA a company must prove they can not hire a Canadian to do the job. That is easily done when you file all Canadian applications in the circular file and advertise pay well below market value. This has driven down wages substantially!
I hope America does not go down that same road and they were right to deny H-2B visas. Driver turnover rates probably have something to do with labor standards and pay of the company trying to import workers. Pay market value, abide by labor standards and there will be no shortage of drivers.
H-2B visas issued for a job like truck driver will only result in wage suppression and compromise safety on the roads.

It's gotten so bad that some of them even mention their LMIA right in the job ads not even trying to hide that they're not looking for Canadians. Either that or they mention you should have a US visa to come work there. A CANADIAN does not need a VISA to cross into the states so it's pretty clear what they're after.

I'm half heartedly looking for work right now so I'm seeing a fair number of them. I say half heartedly because it's a bit of a blessing that I'm not working at the moment. We're working our bags off doing the last bits to get this house listed and full time employment is not conducive to that.

 

[Rigjockey]

@Hillbilly Canuck are you planning on heading east or west?

 

[Hillbilly Canuck]

@Hillbilly Canuck are you planning on heading east or west?

Newfoundland

 

[Rigjockey]

Newfoundland

I wasn't sure because many people are moving to Alberta but I know you got family out east.
Newfies are good people.

 

[389 Hood]

They have a language all unto themselves.

 

[Duck]

Trius Trucking in California was denied its bid to hire foreign drivers under the H-2B visa program after failing to meet filing requirements. The company blamed high turnover rates due to the pandemic for its need for temporary drivers but couldn’t establish that need according to Department of Labor standards. The filing errors led to an outright rejection. What are your thoughts on the challenges faced by trucking companies in recruiting drivers? Are foreign workers the solution, or do we need deeper industry changes?

Trius Trucking’s Bid to Hire H-2B Truck Drivers Denied by Department of Labor - Freight Relocators

Trius Trucking’s H-2B visa request denied due to filing errors and failure to justify driver needs. High turnover cited but not substantiated

www.freightrelocators.com

I thought these H-whatever visas were so medical and tech companies can import EDUCATED foreigners, with unique, specific knowledge and skills not easily found in the US population.

The Department of Labor classifies truck drivers as unskilled or semi-skilled labor. There are plenty of Americans willing to do the job. They shouldn't be allowed to use these foreign worker programs as a source of cheap labor.

 

[Hillbilly Canuck]

I wasn't sure because many people are moving to Alberta but I know you got family out east.
Newfies are good people.

We kicked around the idea of Alberta for about a hot minute but figured we would REALLY never see anyone again then. We've wanted to for years and I suppose we just finally quit coming up with reasons not to.

The kids have been out there a lot over the years and I think it's a much better place to finish raising them. They're so excited I was just telling my wife I think I just got more work out of my oldest in the last week than that schoolhouse did all last year.

 

[Rigjockey]

I thought these H-whatever visas were so medical and tech companies can import EDUCATED foreigners, with unique, specific knowledge and skills not easily found in the US population.

The Department of Labor classifies truck drivers as unskilled or semi-skilled labor. There are plenty of Americans willing to do the job. They shouldn't be allowed to use these foreign worker programs as a source of cheap labor.

You hit the nail right on the head!
There are already plenty of truck drivers that are no longer in the industry and plenty that would take a job as a truck driver if the wages and work conditions were better. There is no reason to import truck drivers other than to drive down wages.
Imagine what the wages would be like if these Visas did not exist.

 

[Hammer166]

Imagine what the wages would be like if these Visas did not exist.

Imagine what trucking would be like if these foreign national investors were unable to get the slave labor they needed to make their business models work.

 

[Duck]

Imagine what trucking would be like if these foreign national investors were unable to get the slave labor they needed to make their business models work.

Autonomous trucks, driven by Artificial Intelligence, chasing Emelio Estevez around a truck stop?

 

[Hammer166]

Autonomous trucks, driven by Artificial Intelligence, chasing Emelio Estevez around a truck stop?

I can't think of that without hearing the gal with piggy eyes screeching .... "Curtis! Ccccuuuuurrrrtttttttiiissss!!!"

 

[krelithous]

can't wait for autonomous road rage

 

[krelithous]

Imagine what trucking would be like if these foreign national investors were unable to get the slave labor they needed to make their business models work.

wait till an autonomous truck kills someone. that will cost em out the ass in lawsuiits. i still haven't figured out how good these things would do in winter conditions!!!

 

[Duck]

can't wait for autonomous road rage

It'll be like the ultimate version of Battle Bots.

Self-aware, evil robot garbage trucks will start using their overhead dumpster lift arms to pick up cars and fling them into the sky.

Robot semi trucks will form wagon circles to surround Walmart parking lots, trapping everyone in the parking lot while robot tow trucks race around with cars on their hooks, sending them tumbling into parked cars.

Teslas will circle the inside perimeter of the truck wall running over anyone trying to escape on foot.

Cyborgs made to look like Dan Akroyd and John Belushi in suits and ties will steal a police car and drive around inside the store, trashing the place while commenting on the merchandise.

Then the automated commercial airlines will become self-aware and blow out their cabin pressure at 30,000 feet to kill the passengers and crew with hypoxia, then they all meet up at an abandoned air base in the desert where smashed-up robot tanker trucks are awaiting with jet fuel for their Armageddon missions to all of our major cities..

Meanwhile Sundar Pichai is watching all of this happening in a huge room full of TV screens at Google Headquarters, recently moved to the top of a tall, pointy mountain, and he starts controlling a thousand foot tall winged bat devil robot named Chernabog that starts throwing fireballs around while Mussorgsky's Night on Bald Mountain is heard echoing through the surrounding canyons...




Yep I think it would be something like that.

 

[389 Hood]

Yep!!! That is some seriously good shit there.

I couldn't even dream something like that up.