Targeting of foreign-born truckers risks \u2018deepening severe labor shortages\u2019 as thousands of drivers have been taken off roads for failing English proficiency requirements<\/p>\n
After moving to Ohio in 2013, Ibragim Chakhalidze\u2019s father set up a trucking company just miles from where two of the country\u2019s major road freight arteries \u2013 the I-70 and the I-75 \u2013 meet.<\/p>\n
Formerly farmers who had come to the US from south-east Russia through a government refugee program, he says trucking has been in his family\u2019s and the wider Ahiska Turk community\u2019s blood for decades.<\/p>\n
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