Diesel engines once roared to life each morning at Bikramjeet Singh Gill’s truck depot in Stockton as drivers conducted their pre-trip inspections before heading out to destinations across the United States. Now, dozens of his trucks stand idle, accumulating dust and debt.
Around 35 of Gill’s immigrant drivers were notified since last fall that the Department of Motor Vehicles was canceling their commercial driver’s licenses. And, they were gone.
“We have lost nearly $2 million in the last four months while paying $200,000 monthly to the bank and insurers for 35 parked trucks. The banks don’t wait,” Gill said, who runs Gillson Trucking Inc…