30,000 Sikhs have entered trucking industry past two years. 50,000 drivers still needed.

[George's Dilemma]

There's work out there brehs.


More than 30,000 Indian-American Sikhs have entered the trucking industry in 2 years

This year, the turnover rate for truck drivers is 96 percent. More than 50,000 drivers are needed to meet the demand, and the shortage is forcing companies like Amazon, General Mills, Tyson Foods and others to hike up their prices to consumers.

But one group of drivers -- Indian-Americans who practice the Sikh faith, truckers like Mintu Pandher -- may well be a big part of the solution. More than 30,000 Sikhs have entered the trucking industry in the last two years.

"For Sikhs, they want to keep their articles of faith, turban, unshaven hair, beard, moustache -- it's a safety hazard for a lot of jobs that require it. So in trucking they can keep everything, and still make a decent living," Pandher said.

 

[Ikwa]

Wear your trousers on your head brehs

 

[George's Dilemma]

@IbucciMane!

 

[Geek Nasty]

This country will go to Indo fukking China to find cheap labor. They finally figured out a way to get cheap truck drivers.

 

[The Coochie Assassin]

That's crazy they coming over here like that and getting jobs yet I see so many brothers working dead end gigs like overnight stockers at the grocery store who just don't wanna leave their area to make money driving

 

[stave]

Yeah I been noticing more of them. They always have on flip flops regardless of what the weather is

 

[Fukwatutalkinwatisaylaw]

Terror alert red..

 

[The Odum of Ala Igbo]

Let's listen to this devotional hymn, brehs, as we drive across a metaphorical America

 

[Ya' Cousin Cleon]

not everybody is situated to drive trucks for a living

That's crazy they coming over here like that and getting jobs yet I see so many brothers working dead end gigs like overnight stockers at the grocery store who just don't wanna leave their area to make money driving

 

[Silver Surfer]

Nikkas getting pushed out of everything.....

 

[newworldafro]

There's work out there brehs.


More than 30,000 Indian-American Sikhs have entered the trucking industry in 2 years

This year, the turnover rate for truck drivers is 96 percent. More than 50,000 drivers are needed to meet the demand, and the shortage is forcing companies like Amazon, General Mills, Tyson Foods and others to hike up their prices to consumers.

But one group of drivers -- Indian-Americans who practice the Sikh faith, truckers like Mintu Pandher -- may well be a big part of the solution. More than 30,000 Sikhs have entered the trucking industry in the last two years.

"For Sikhs, they want to keep their articles of faith, turban, unshaven hair, beard, moustache -- it's a safety hazard for a lot of jobs that require it. So in trucking they can keep everything, and still make a decent living," Pandher said.

Fascinating. Do they get to keep the sword too?

 

[The Coochie Assassin]

not everybody is situated to drive trucks for a living

Yeah these Indian Americans are more situated than a 23 year old brotha with no other plans, working at Popeyes

you know these Indian Americans about to flip they bread and buy their own trucks and start their own trucking businesses too

 

[George's Dilemma]

Yeah these Indian Americans are more situated than a 23 year old brotha with no other plans, working at Popeyes

you know these Indian Americans about to flip they bread and buy their own trucks and start their own trucking businesses too

From the same article........


Pandher bought a used tractor-trailer 13 years ago. Now he owns nine rigs, plus a truck stop in Laramie.

With so many Sikh truck drivers, he even added a Sikh temple to his truck stop. And his kitchen offers Indian specials that attract new fans as well.

 

[Ya' Cousin Cleon]

if someone doesn’t want to leave the area they grew up in and they happen to be really close to their family

what sense does being a truck driver make

learn to take peoples situation into account

and of course that’s what Indian Americans are going to when they have the support of a country with over a billion people

Yeah these Indian Americans are more situated than a 23 year old brotha with no other plans, working at Popeyes

you know these Indian Americans about to flip they bread and buy their own trucks and start their own trucking businesses too

 

[Supa cat]

Someone tagg napoleon ask him to ask his cousins to hook reggie up with a job @IbucciMane!