A U.S. Senate Candidate Says Foreign Truckers Are Making America’s Roads Unsafe. His Own Truckers Have Caused Harm.

ProPublica reports that Georgia U.S. Senate candidate Mike Collins, a Republican and trucking company owner, has championed revoking commercial driver's licenses from nearly 200,000 noncitizen truckers as a road safety measure, yet opposed safety technologies (speed limiters and automatic emergency braking) that experts say reduce serious crashes. Over 25 years, Collins' family trucking business has been involved in at least 90 crashes resulting in 51+ injuries and 5 deaths, with crash victims suing for hundreds of thousands in damages; the Trump administration itself acknowledged having no empirical evidence that foreign truckers cause more crashes than American drivers, and Democratic attorneys general noted only 5 of 4,000+ CDL-related deaths nationally were caused by noncitizens. ProPublica's reporting is deeply sourced with federal motor carrier safety data, court filings, police records, and expert interviews from safety organizations; the piece is bylined by Max Blau from an outlet with strong investigative credentials, and Collins' campaign declined to respond, limiting the article's ability to present his perspective on the contradiction. Independent corroboration from PBS News confirms the Trump administration's March 2025 licensing revocation affecting 200,000 immigrants, while no major outlets dispute ProPublica's core findings about Collins' company's safety record or the lack of empirical evidence for the noncitizen driver policy. Critical readers should monitor whether Collins addresses the safety technology positions during the May 19 Republican primary and whether legal challenges to the Trump administration's licensing rule succeed, which could frame the policy's legitimacy.