Congressman’s own truckers have been involved in deadly crashes as he vows to make roads safer

Added: 2026-05-18

[00:00:01]You thought that was going to hit you, huh? This is my chance. Well, you know what's been hitting us? Needlessly dangerous illegal aliens. He's a Georgia congressman running for one of the country's most competitive US Senate seats. He spent most of his life running a trucking business.

[00:00:16]On social media and in interviews, he's vowed to make America's roads safer through one main idea, getting non-citizen truckers off the road.

[00:00:26]Collins is one of the loudest supporters of the Trump administration's effort to revoke licenses from nearly 200,000 non-citizen commercial drivers. But the administration's own officials have written that there's no empirical evidence to show that foreign truckers cause more crashes than truckers who are American citizens. At the same time, Collins has opposed rules that experts say actually would reduce the odds of serious crashes. People don't understand that these things actually are are hurting more than they're helping right now. They don't work perfectly yet and they're very expensive.

[00:00:59]ProPublica compared Collins' family business with other active trucking companies with similar mileage.

[00:01:04]Truckers for Collins' company have a higher rate of unsafe driving and speeding violations per mile than the majority of similar companies.

[00:01:12]According to records we obtained, truckers who work for Collins' family business have also been involved in crashes from alleged failures to slow down.

[00:01:20]Over the past 5 years, three people hurt in those crashes have sued Collins' fleet because its truckers allegedly failed to maintain a safe distance. And over the past 25 years, crashes involving truckers for Collins' business killed five people and injured over 50 others.

[00:01:38]That includes a woman who needs around-the-clock care due to a severe brain injury.

[00:01:43]That's all based on federal data, court filings, plaintiff's attorneys, and police records.

[00:02:07]>> Mhm.