Sikh drivers are transforming U.S. trucking

Over the last decade, Indian Americans have launched trucking schools, truck companies, truck washes, trucker temples and no-frills Indian restaurants modeled after truck stops back home, where Sikhs from the state of Punjab dominate the industry. Three years ago, a group of Sikh truckers in California won a settlement from a national shipping company after saying it discriminated against their faith. How a rural Oklahoma truck stop became a destination for Sikh Punjabis crossing America »

“Thirty years ago, it was hard to get into trucking because there were so few people like us in the business who could help you,” says Rashpal Dhindsa, a former trucker who runs Fontana-based Dhindsa Group of Companies, one of the oldest Sikh-owned U.S. trucking companies.

Source: www.latimes.com