* California - Trucker: A typically "American" job, as the cowboy ones !!!
-- The industry increasingly depends on drivers from many parts of the world... To see this shift up close, head 50 miles west of Los Angeles, just off Interstate 10, home to one of the busiest long-haul truck stops in the US. It’s where tired drivers often park their 18-wheelers for the night and eat, shower and relax before hitting the road again. It’s also where you’ll see just how multinational the trucking industry is now because of drivers like Harsharan Singh, originally from Punjab, India... "Now, a lot of people from Romania, Yugoslavia, China, Japanese, Russians are coming into this business,” says Singh, who hauls produce all across the Western US and Canada... Nearly 30 percent of foreign-born drivers are now from Asia, the Middle East, the former Soviet republics and Europe. Most of the rest are from Latin America, according to the Census Bureau's 2012 American Community Survey. That survey also found that the proportion of immigrant drivers varies from state to state, with California at 46 percent, the highest concentration of foreign-born drivers, followed by New Jersey at 40 percent... But despite the hardships, for many new immigrant drivers, they’ll take the trucking life — one route to the American dream...
(Photo: Harsharan Singh, a trucker based in Los Angeles, is originally from India. He's among a growing number of immigrant truck drivers in the US) -- Los Angeles, CAL, USA - WVXU, by Saul Gonzalez - April 22, 2016Labels: truckers shortage, trucking industry news USA
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