Ep. 3726 Gavin Newsom PANICS as THOUSANDS of Truckers LEAVE California!!!
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🗓️ 7 January 2026
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
California's Assembly Bill 5, aimed at protecting workers, is causing a mass exodus of independent truckers from the state, threatening the very foundation of the freight industry that supports the economy. With an estimated 70,000 truckers potentially leaving California, the implications extend to empty grocery shelves and rising prices statewide. At the same time, California is shutting down gas stations and losing significant refining capacity, compounding the crisis and leading to a self-inflicted supply chain catastrophe. The combined effects of these policies highlight the dangers of prioritizing union politics over economic realities, leaving California's future uncertain.
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Highlights:
- “Assembly Bill 5 is forcing independent truckers out of California.”
- “70,000 truckers could leave, leading to empty shelves and price spikes.”
- “California's fuel infrastructure is collapsing, with gas stations shutting down.”
- “Union politics are prioritized over economic realities, worsening the crisis.”
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| 0:00.0 | The liberal globalist order is at its brink and awakening a new conservative age. |
| 0:06.5 | I'm Dr. Steve Turley. |
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| 0:17.9 | This is Turley Talks. |
| 0:20.7 | Gavin Newsom's California is experiencing yet another mass exodus, but this time it's not |
| 0:27.1 | residents or businesses. It's the very industry that moves 70% of America's freight, without |
| 0:33.7 | which every grocery store shelf empties, every hospital runs out of supplies, |
| 0:38.6 | and every business grinds to a halt within days. As we speak, something is happening in California |
| 0:46.5 | that will send shockways throughout the entire American economy, and it's already writing |
| 0:51.8 | Gavin Newsom's political obituary. |
| 0:55.6 | Meet Assembly Bill 5, signed by Governor Newsom back in 2019. |
| 1:00.7 | Now on paper, it sounds noble. |
| 1:03.0 | Its stated goal is to protect workers from exploitation. |
| 1:07.8 | In reality, it's a sledgehammer that destroys independent truckers. |
| 1:12.9 | The law uses what's called the ABC test. |
| 1:16.4 | That's basically three tests that the government uses to decide if you're an independent |
| 1:21.1 | contractor or an employee. |
| 1:23.5 | Now, the first two are easy. |
| 1:25.5 | They basically involve truckers proving that they control their own schedules, that they're free from another company's control, that they run their own established businesses and the like. |
| 1:35.1 | It's the third test. |
| 1:37.5 | It's a trap. |
| 1:39.6 | The third test is an impossible absurdity. |
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