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A trucking company owner told Fox News that he will no longer direct services to cities that are pushing to defund the police, in order to keep his drivers safe, according to Fox Business.
co-owner of JKC Trucking Mike Kucharski told “Fox & Friends First,” “Our first priority is to support our drivers and their safety when they are on the road.”
Kucharski lamented that drivers often carry valuable cargo on the road for weeks at a time, and in cities where the police are defunded, it could pose a possible threat to drivers.
“Everybody wants to steal this,” Kucharski said.
“Another issue that I am seeing in the future is I have cargo insurance, liability insurance, fiscal damage insurance, and I am very curious how when I renew my contracts at the end of the year, if there is going to be language — if I am going to even have coverage going into these places,” Kucharski said.
“Right now I have coverage going all over domestically. You have to get special coverage for Canada or Mexico or you might have to buy special riders for this on top of everything.”
More from Fox Business:
A soon-to-be-released survey of 258 police departments nationwide shows almost half have had their budgets cut amid calls for police to be defunded despite increases in gun violence and otherwise violent crime in some parts of the country, according to USA Today.
The outlet was first to report that the Police Executive Research Forum publication, which is expected to be released in the coming days, shows cuts in the police budgets are largely being made to training and equipment.
