Thanks to NAFTA, and the relentless pushing of the free-trade fanatics,
Mexican truck drivers are now being allowed into the U.S. As if that's not
bad enough, soon we will also have Indians taking the big rigs for a spin
on our highways.

The Indian truckers will be trained in Andhra Pradesh, India and will use
H-2B visas to enter the U.S. H-2B visas are to be used for seasonal work,
which probably means they want to churn the truckers in and out of the U.S.
Typically the H-2B visa is used for agricultural workers but it can be used
for a broad range of blue collar jobs.

The department of labor has criteria that supposedly must be met to qualify
for H-2B visas:

http://workforcesecurity.doleta.gov/foreign/h-2b.asp
Qualifying Criteria
The job and the employer's need must be one time, seasonal,
peak load or intermittent; the job must be for less than one year;
and there must be no qualified and willing U.S. workers available
for the job.

You might think it would be a tough sell to convince the DOL that there
aren't enough American truck drivers, but according to the company that
import the Indian drivers there is not only a shortage of truck drivers in
the U.S. but the ones we have are not very good.

http://www.gaganglobal.com/aboutus.htm
The shortage of quality drivers in US and the tremendous
industrial growth has pushed the Americans to come calling
and knock our doors as India has a huge pool of drivers
and exposure to English. The US urgently needs 20,000
truckers. A truck driver gets $5000 a month and gets
long-term benefits.

If the truck unions think they have problems now, just wait until they are
underbid by the "tough guys" from India.

We also found that while the average long haul truck driver makes
between $50,000 and $90,000 a year, these truck drivers make far
less, and work a whole lot more. So what we have here are people
who are never shy of work, extremely friendly and cooperative, and
most of all, tough guys who are more than up to handling the
American trucks.