Voice Of GO(r)D brings you two trucking industry researchers in discussion on a hot topic today that is now being discussed in the wider media, downstream of a major enforcement action in Oklahoma. Danielle Chaffin returns for her third appearance on the show along with Miranda from the very popular and informative Trucking Made Successful YouTube channel, and we dive in to the question of how random migrants from around the world are showing up in America and various states are issuing them CDLs with very little in the way of any identification, verification, or possibility of accountability should anything go wrong.
And things are often going wrong with these guys behind the wheel of trucks, especially when the lack of verification involved with the issue of these CDLs overlaps with the lack of any necessary training or vetting, which is intrinsic to the corruption at play, and is a major contributor to the rising frequency of truck involved crashes and the un-aliving of so many innocent people on our highways. There is also a very tight Venn Diagram between the No Name Given guys and ‘Chameleon Carriers’ who are constantly on the move to evade being shut down over their terrible safety records.
The State of California comes in for some special criticism in this regard.
Danielle and others, along with my associates at American Truckers United, have been looking into the fraudulent issues of CDLs for some time now, including the increasing trend of issuing them to people who … do not produce legitimate identification, and apparently have no names. Readers of this Substack would have seen Danielle’s reporting on this in Freight Caviar back in June, which I have shared here several times.
In a joint operation between the state of Oklahoma and ICE which took place the week before last, 130 individuals were removed from their trucks by ICE officials during truck inspections, as it was discovered that every single one of those drivers was in the United States illegally. The media made huge hay out of one particular driver who was found to have a NO NAME GIVEN CDL issued by the state of New York; FOX News then ran a piece featuring my man Shannon Everett from American Truckers United, along with Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt.
It’s worth a watch -
In the wake of all this, many commentators Engagement Farmers on Twitter/X took images and research from Danielle and began sharing it, and Danielle’s research went super viral … but without any context, nor credit sent her way for being on the leading edge of this research.
For the benefit of those who are confused by all of this, especially the type of ‘Low Information’ person who assumes that anything being illegal means that it never happens, much less happens at that scale which is putting our entire economy and the safety of American Motorists at risk, I thought it would be a worthwhile exercise to go right to the source - Danielle herself. Miranda was brought along as well, as she has been doing similar research, and also has some fairly proximate insights into certain of the ethnic groups who have parasitized themselves on the industry.
Danielle requested that we publish this discussion with video, as both she and Miranda ‘screenshared’ a bunch of their findings … and it was easy enough for the two of them to persuade me to drop my normal policy of ‘audio only’, so here ya go if you want to watch.
Danielle
Once you are done subscribing to Danielle’s Substack, you can go follow her on Twitter/X - https://x.com/maybedanielleee and, if you want, NerdIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/maybedanielleee/
You can find Miranda’s awesome YouTube Channel here - https://www.youtube.com/@TruckingMadeSuccessful and on Twitter/X - https://x.com/TMSuccessful
In other news - my book is complete! The first round of editing, revisions, and more editing, are all wrapped up, and the manuscript is now in the hands of my publishers at Creed and Culture. They will have a week or two to analyze the manuscript, make any final suggestions or changes, and later this month we should have a final manuscript of the book ready to go. Pre-sales at their website will open in November, and the Hardcover will be delivered to your door in March; or, you can meet me at the Mid-America Trucking Show in Louisville, Kentucky, March 26-28 2026, and I will sign a copy for you in person! An E-reader version will also be available, and I will be narrating an audiobook for all of my Road Warrior colleagues to listen to while you are white-knuckling it along the Interstate Mad Max Wasteland.
https://creedandculture.com/books/end-of-the-road-inside-the-war-on-truckers/
Thanks for listening, and please pass this discussion along to your favorite trucker, or US DOT investigator, or State DMV official, or anyone else with the power to fix this problem - its time to start cleaning things up, and attain the Highway Hyperborea that is within our capacity to create.
Questions, comments, suggestions, corrections and Hate Mail are welcomed and Strongly Encouraged - gordilocks@protonmail.com
