Texas fleets seek out foreign drivers to solve labor shortage

[Diamond_Dog]

A lack of available workers willing to drive trucks has become so severe in South Texas that fleets are looking to foreign operators to fill employment gaps, officials said.

Laredo, Texas-based Texas A&M International University (TAMIU) has partnered with Entra Business Solutions to create a program recruiting drivers from the Dominican Republic who are interested in coming to America to work as truckers along the U.S.-Mexico border.

The program has about 400 candidates from the Dominican Republic, along with some from Ecuador and Mexico. After candidates complete the first level of screening, they must study and be able to pass a driver’s license exam from the state of Texas.

Entra also provides an online platform for candidates to obtain basic English language skills to allow them to read and comprehend traffic signs, directions and communicate in the U.S.

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***** will the anti-immigrant crowd see the irony here?

[Phoenix61]

1. Because increasing wages would be wrong. /s nt

[Lovie777]

2. Oh the irony.....

same with bullshitter DeSantis, guess whose helping to clean and repair Florida....

[David__77]

3. There is no more a labor shortage than of any commodity.

This is a wage reduction program, regardless of what they are paying them.

[SWBTATTReg]

4. And this is a sign among many other industries that are having trouble attracting workers to

pick crops, work in livestock processing plants, drive vehicles, etc. when you have, political leaders of FL and TX raising a row against immigrants and others and thus, keeping workers away.

These so-called leaders don't care about their state's economies, by continuing to mouth off against desperately needed workers and during the process, hurt their own state's economies, by keeping away potential workers.