Did the "nation's largest trucking company" publicly refuse to offer its services in New York City after Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani takes office? No, that's not true: The claim was based on a made-up press release published by a page with a satire label. No credible media outlet reported the purported news.
The claim appeared in a post (archived here) published on Facebook on November 6, 2025. It opened:
The nation's largest trucking company says it will no longer service New York City after Mamdani takes office:
'We've instructed our dispatchers to reject loads to any of the Five Burroughs,' said Company Spokesman Joe Barron, 'We don't see a way to continue doing business in the Big Apple..'
The news comes as Mamdani released his plan to increase revenue across the city by quadrupling the cost of tolls, licensing, permits, and inspections of all commercial vehicles.
'He's going to put a lot of the independent truckers out of business.'
This is what the image from the post looked like on Facebook at the time of writing:
(Source: Lead Stories screenshot of post by "America Loves Liberty" at facebook.com)
As of this writing, New York City's Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani was scheduled to take office at midnight on January 1, 2026 (archived here), but searches on Google News and Yahoo News (archived here) showed no credible journalistic articles confirming the claim about the "nation's largest trucking company".
As seen in the screenshot above, the picture used to illustrate the post displayed a satire disclaimer in the bottom right corner:
(Source: Lead Stories screenshot of post by "America Loves Liberty" at facebook.com)
The self-description of the page that published the post reviewed in this article continued:
An authorized dumping ground for used ALLOD material and other profitable right-wing propaganda. Nothing on this page is real.
The page further disclosed that it's affiliated with "Busta Troll," a self-professed liberal troll Christopher Blair from Maine:
(Source: Lead Stories screenshot of page at facebook.com/AmericaLovesLiberty)
"ALLOD" mentioned in the page's self-description published a variation of the claim on November 7, 2025:
(Source: Lead Stories screenshot of ALLOD post on Facebook/ALLOD)
"ALLOD" stands for "America's Last Line of Defense", a network of websites with visible satire disclaimers everywhere run Blair and a loose network of friends and allies. They mostly publish made-up stories with headlines specifically created to trigger Republicans, conservatives and evangelical Christians into angrily sharing or commenting on the story on Facebook without actually reading the full article, exposing them to mockery and ridicule by fans of the sites and pages.
Every site in the network has an about page that reads (in part):
About Satire
Before you complain and decide satire is synonymous with "comedy":sat·ire
ˈsaˌtī(ə)r
noun
The use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.Everything on this website is fiction. It is not a lie and it is not fake news because it is not real. If you believe that it is real, you should have your head examined. Any similarities between this site's pure fantasy and actual people, places, and events are purely coincidental and all images should be considered altered and satirical. See above if you're still having an issue with that satire thing.
Articles from Blair's sites frequently get copied by "real" fake news sites who omit the satire disclaimer and other hints the stories are fake. One of the most persistent networks of such sites is run by a man from Pakistan named Kashif Shahzad Khokhar (aka "DashiKashi") who has spammed hundreds of such stolen stories into conservative and right-wing Facebook pages in order to profit from the ad revenue.
