IL Company Says It Won't Take Trucks To Towns That Defund Cops

SUMMIT, IL — A trucking company in Summit, a Chicago suburb, says it will stop making shipments to towns that are calling for defunding or disbanding of their police, according to a WGN story.

On Wednesday, Mike Kucharski, of JKC Trucking, told Fox & Friends that his company is enacting the policy to protect its drivers' safety.

“Our first priority is to support our drivers and their safety when they are on the road,” Kucharski said.

Summit is in the west suburbs, east of La Grange.

“Defunding the police is a bad idea because when you’re on the road for weeks or days at a time driving 11 hours with valuable cargo, everybody wants to steal this,” Kucharski told Fox & Friends.

“When you’re a truck driver long enough on the road there’s no safe place, violence is everywhere.”