The Trump administration restored a penalty of taking truck drivers with limited English out of service, raising concerns over a shortage of drivers and discrimination.
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It's been a requirement since I got my CDL in 1993, when CDL was first issued. Reg was that they be sufficiently able to understand a DOT officers instruction at an inspection.
interested to hear or read if anyone/thing has studied impacts. How many fewer drivers? (although w/ fewer goods coming in, less problem I guess?) delivery schedules/product shortages? product $? enforcement personnel & $? have they bothered?
or are they just gonna “show somebody.”
Indigenous people didn’t speak English who were first here..
This land is for everyone speak diff language even out there world too.. geez. IMPEACH him already! He keep firing more and more people is enough.
It is not racist. It is enforcing the law.
DOT mandates that CMV drivers must be able to read and communicate in English fluently to drive a commercial motor vehicle.
FMCSRs section 391.11(b)(2).
Enforcing this also helps public safety.
But I guess you don’t care about your safety.
Lmao. So true. I drove for a couple years. Some guys don't use any words that exceed 4 letters. The dumb ones tend to be the guys who love the carrot demon. Donnie kinda talks that way too, making him easy to understand for people with a 3rd grade vocabulary.
Not gonna lie, as a trucker…this should’ve been done.. when Covid hit, there was an influx of broken English speaking drivers come through and it was mad accidents just from speeding and driving them trucks recklessly..maybe this will make the rates go up too, idk
People in Europe cross borders all the time and don’t speak the language of the country they are driving in.
Not being able to speak the language of the country people are driving in does not lead to accidents.
What happened and the driver couldn’t explain how a brake chamber could possibly fall off in the first place. It’s been a law, they’re just now enforcing it.
It’s literally the first rule to obtain a cdl in this country. How can you understand the street signs or rules of the road if you don’t understand the language. The very reason the law was put in place is because a part flew off a truck and killed a family of 5. They asked the driver..
Not only do drivers in Europe cope with different languages on their signage they also have to navigate left and right hand roads in different countries.
It’s not hard so perhaps it something about foreigners that is your problem.
They don’t do that here and it’s not a me problem it’s an industry problem. This ain’t Europe. If you can’t speak the language you can’t understand the rules. This same mentality is why they come here and tear up the roads.
Personally I m not for having unqualified drivers period. If one has limited English I can only assume they did not take driving tests to know and understand the rules of the road. We ve got plenty of English speaking reckless drivers to chose from but for some reason they are exempt.
I agree, there are quite a few bad drivers who should not be operating CMVs. And there are 10X as many bad drivers who should not be operating a regular 4-wheel vehicle either.
You don't really need to "speak" English. You would need to be able to read it to some extent because shippers can't often accommodate that, and the bills are rarely in any other language, save Qebec & Mexico(french & spanish).
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or are they just gonna “show somebody.”
Indigenous people didn’t speak English who were first here..
This land is for everyone speak diff language even out there world too.. geez. IMPEACH him already! He keep firing more and more people is enough.
DOT mandates that CMV drivers must be able to read and communicate in English fluently to drive a commercial motor vehicle.
FMCSRs section 391.11(b)(2).
Enforcing this also helps public safety.
But I guess you don’t care about your safety.
Also who the fuck is Trump to limit a job to how well they speak English has he only fucking speaks in Word Salad??!
Not being able to speak the language of the country people are driving in does not lead to accidents.
It’s not hard so perhaps it something about foreigners that is your problem.
I’d suggest the real problem is your intolerance of people who come from somewhere different to you.