Can a D.O.T put a driver out of service because a driver didnt speak 100% english????

I have a friend who hosted a couple of German girls when his daughter was in high school. It turns out a lot of German students will come to the U.S. and obtain a drivers license. Back home the legal age to get a license is 18, but 16 here. And you guessed it, it was valid back home for them to drive.

Naturally though, these students all spoke excellent English.

 

You are right! the way some people in this Forum react? it behooves me! It's like they were brought up not to think outside the box! same with politics, i understand that this thread is to help each other and bringing politicians, party's or left and right turns away certain people, but some regulations that affect trucking has to be in the conversation! not critcize who's fault but to prepare how to deal with it!it's like if you touch on a subject that they deem controversial politically, they tell you ""dont you go there" dont even think about going there or else? and some of them dont understand where you are going? they cant think outside the box!

 

I agree that English proficiency exams should required to obtain a CDL. Judging from the quality of English I see being used on this site, I doubt most of you would qualify. Did any of you actually go to school? So I say yes to testing. Eliminating illiterates from our ranks would definitely thin them and thus lead to increased income for the rest of us. Beware of what you wish for.

 

There's a difference between not having a suitable proficiency in English and having poor spelling and grammar usage on an internet forum. A big difference between using their instead of there and not using a comma and a guy who tears the roof off of his truck in New York because he didn't understand the No Trucks on Parkways sign.

 

I wonder if over in Russia, are all the Volvo's based out of Elk Grove Village, IL like they are here???

 

The DOT should put these people outta service, I pay a lot of attention to the trucks I pass or that pass me on a daily basis, I stood behind a guy at the Flying J in Emporia, KS for 20 minutes while he tried to pay for his fuel with his pilot rewards card.......


Also my family owns and operates a manufacturing business and sometimes (when I'm not driving) I will help load trucks and my dad has finally started turning away drivers that do not speak or comprehend English because they're ignoring important procedures or can't understand instructions I have went and hunted down many a container truck that just plain didn't comprehend the directions they were given

how do you read a provision sheet? How do you read a road sign? How do you know when you're shower is ready? How do you read the cargo securement handbook (which everyone should have), how do you understand your cb? I had a European driver load infront of me and tried explaining how to secure what he was hauling .2 straps over each stack of 10' flatbed truck bodies 6 in each stack...pulls out...never saw him again...I'm sure he made it, I'm sure there are some good legit broken English speaking drivers, but ill bet 3/4 shouldn't be behind the wheel of a cmv, this is not Russia, Romania, Poland, etc. when this country because the United States of Eastern Europe ill start driving with my left foot on the dash and put those stupid Michelin men things on my pos Volvo that should've been junked 500,000 miles ago

And to be honest one of the most intelligent conversations I've ever had with another driver was with a Indian driver from Ontario, if you wanna make a living driving a truck in the US you need to do it the way the rest of us are.......that maybe went nowhere....

 

In Soviet America, English speaks you!

 

This is obviously the bad English thread.

 

Ya Betcha..... I don't speak dat dar English, Eh? Its Yoopernese. Its Required in da UP, Eh?