Chicago Tribune; Monday, January 1, 2007
HEADLINE: Unskilled truckers rampant: Licensing fraud found in 24 states over last 5 years
BYLINE: Stephen Franklin and Darnell Little, Chicago Tribune
Jan. 1--Missouri officials recently were preparing to send a letter to truck driver Hussein Osman, asking him to retake his commercial driver's license test.
The reason: Missouri and federal agencies were investigating whether the driving school that Osman attended fraudulently helped provide licenses for several hundred truck drivers, many of them Somali and Bosnian immigrants.
But the 25-year-old Osman was dead before the letter went out.
He was killed in an Oct. 1 collision that also took the life of Oklahoma State Trooper William McClendon, 37. State police later said both the trucker's and the trooper's actions may have led to the crash.
There are thousands of truck drivers like Osman on the nation's highways who got their licenses under suspicious circumstances. In the last five years, the federal government has discovered licensing fraud in 24 states. The payment-for-license schemes usually center on so-called third-party examiners who are hired by states to perform driver testing.
As a federal judge in Chicago remarked during a license fraud case several years ago, some of these truckers can be likened to "10-ton torpedoes."
If Wildbill had something to say...............
He would say to the Media ( Chicago Tribune ) and to the Honorable Federal Judge that these people who are or who were involved in obtaining their CDL's fraudulently are not Truckers and never will be!
It is clear that a Judge is not a Judge if he or she has not proceeded through the proper channels and obtained the proper licensing to become a judge, so it would not be appropriate to catorgorise them as so, like it is not at all appropriate to call someone a trucker who has not gone through the proper channels and procedures to become a professional truck driver and so it is extremely unfair of the media and the honorable judge to publicly report these criminels as Truckers!
I know the general public to be intelligent enough to know that this report in the Chicago Tribune is unreliable and prejudice to every professional truck driver in North America!
This is a deliberate slander on real truckers and I am surprised that a Federal Judge who is supposed to be a symbol of truth and justice is making a hurtful and unfair statement in the news media in regards to Truckers this way, but it seems to be the in thing today!
I heard Trillionaire Donald Trump on worldwide television say that Rosie O'Donald had a trash mouth on her like a truck driver!
What is wrong with these people who are supposed to be educated enough to become Federal Judges and Trillionaires but don't have enough sense to know that it is terribly wrong to slander and degrade defenseless people who work so hard for so little in this world!
As a funny man once said!!
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Wildbill....
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