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I’ve written about the problems of allowing too many drivers, either through immigration with h1b visas or even lying recruiting to people to fill driver seats. I know I don’t make up this stuff but some people think I’m against immigrants of any kind. The same argument is used to vilify anyone and everyone on the right side of the law and economics. And I’m definitely against becoming more like Europe. Here are a few examples of what’s happening with Europe’s immigration and we’re bound to follow, if we haven’t already.

MORE ON EUROPE’S POROUS BORDERS
When Poland and seven other former Soviet bloc countries joined the
European Union in 2004, Tony Blair’s government assured the British
public that the country would not be flooded by job-seeking migrants
from the East. At most, ministers asserted—at most—Britain could expect
around 15,000 additional immigrants per year.

Not for the first time, a government’s math has proven wildly, grotesquely wrong…

Sarkozy is an astute politican who understands that positionning
himself as an advocate of tighter borders makes the best electoral
sense. But he is also right: Europe will never get control of its
immigration mess as long as individual member states continue to use
amnesties as a way of making up for temporary labor shortfalls.

A lot of those Poles and Eastern Europeans made their way into American Trucking.  I love this story from Canadian Trucking telling about a German fleet owner looking to buy a trucking company in Canada, check out his reason for leaving Germany.

Guten Tag Canada! German truckers look for fresh start in the Dominion

TORONTO — Reinhard Hollenhorst, owner of 25-truck fleet HTI Spedition
in Munster, Germany, has gotten to the point where he believes he’s
seen the best trucking days Deutschland has to offer.
 
Thinking
of closing up shop and starting new somewhere overseas, Hollenhorst
sent his daughter Anja and associate Thorsten Schaefer on a scouting
expedition to Southern Ontario earlier this summer.

Worse, adds Thorsten, is the EU, which takes heavily from the
pockets of German taxpayers and businesses to subsidize the enrollment
of new, poorer, nations into the union.

Leaving are big manufacturing companies that move to cheaper
countries in Eastern Europe and Asia, and arriving in return are a
flood of truck drivers from those nations who Anja says are
cannibalizing the rates.

"The Russians, for example, will send their drivers and they don’t
go home for four weeks. They work in lots of European countries for
very cheap," says Anja. "At the moment you have lots of businesses
saying ’should I work? Why should I work?’"

It’s only a matter of time before American Trucking is plagued by the same or worse regulations and a flood of drivers. Replace the EU with NAU and this sentence …EU, which takes heavily from the
pockets of German taxpayers and businesses to subsidize the enrollment
of new, poorer, nations into the union. Who do you think is going to be subsidizing the poorer nations in the NAU???