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#trucking-industry

"There are a lot of negative comments online," said Prahb Singh, a truck driver in Riverside, California, who isn't related to the driver. None of the people named in this story are in the same family; Singh is a common last name among Sikhs. "People are saying: 'Take the towel heads off the streets' and 'Make our roads safe by taking immigrants off the street,'" said Singh, a U.S. citizen who emigrated from India at age 8. "All of this before a judge gives a sentence. It was a mistake by a driver, not the whole community."

If states had followed the rules, this driver would never have been behind the wheel and three precious lives would still be with us. This crash was a preventable tragedy directly caused by reckless decisions and compounded by despicable failures. Non-enforcement and radical immigration policies have turned the trucking industry into a lawless frontier, resulting in unqualified foreign drivers improperly acquiring licenses to operate 40-ton vehicles.

The debate in Little Rock illustrates not only the contentious relationship between large lobbying entities and smaller trucking companies but raises critical safety concerns affecting drivers and public alike.