Scene of truck accident in America.
The US has taken a big decision after a fierce road accident caused by the wrong y-turn of the Punjab truck driver in Florida, USA. The US Foreign Ministry has stopped issuing work visas for commercial truck drivers with immediate effect. Information about this and
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External Affairs Minister Marco Rubio wrote- With immediate effect, we are stopping issuing all worker visas for business truck drivers.
The increasing number of foreign drivers, which are driving large tractor-trailer trucks on the streets of America, are endangering the lives of American citizens and weakening the livelihood of American truck drivers.
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Florida accident Made reason
A major accident took place in Florida last week. In the video revealed on social media, the driver of a semi truck suddenly takes a U-turn on the road. At the same time, the mini van coming from the front collided with the back of the truck and entered badly.
This truck was driving 28 -year -old Harjinder Singh. Investigation came to an investigation that he had reached America illegally. In this accident, a 30 -year -old youth running a mini van, a 37 -year -old woman sitting with him and a 54 -year -old man – all three died on the spot. The magnitude of the accident can be gauged from the fact that the van was badly buried under the truck.
Due to a wrong U-turn of Harjinder Singh, the US government has banned visas for commercial truck drivers with immediate effect. This is the first time a person’s mistake affected the entire sector.
Video of truck accident in America.
Punjabis rule over transport industry
According to the data, the number of people associated with foreign -origin trucking business in the US exceeded double between 2000 and 2021 to 7,20,000. The increasing number of foreign drivers is due to the demand of truck drivers. Earlier this year, a report by the financial company Altline said that there is a shortage of 24 thousand truck drivers in the US. Due to this deficiency, the goods are not able to reach on time and the freight industry suffers a loss of about $ 95.5 million every week.
According to the US news channel ASAM News, the recent data of June 2025 shows that about 1.50 lakh Sikhs are working in the American trucking industry, about 90% of which are truck drivers. The old 2020 estimates stated that there are more than 30 thousand Punjabi truck drivers on the US highway, which makes about fifth of the total truck drivers.
