Los Angeles sources have stated that the trucker with the long white beard and turban faced a dilemma over work he desperately needed that would require him to violate the tenets of his Sikh religion by cutting hair that had never been cropped. It wasn't about the way Lakhbir Singh has looked that was an issue it was just a clipping for a drug test. When he had refused to go against one of Sikhism's five articles of faith, he had lost the job.