Language Barrier ... this is out of hand

I mean, after all, if you can't read, speak, or understand the English language, you are disqualified from driving.......right?

 

OOS ONLY if a US resident. if from Quebec where French is spoken, no.

although in the 70's everybody up there spoke great English, hitchhiked all over Quebec in '73, guess they all forgot how by the mid 80's

I drove Ontario and Quebec for 17 yrs and spoke no French at first, learned enough to stay on the right road, usually.

 

Only if your a citizen.

 

Seriously?

 

Elect me Emperor and I will make it happen on Day 1.

 

Some years ago, like around 2015, I was acquainted with a member of the Harris County (Houston TX) Sheriff's office, who served on their DOT enforcement squad.
At around that time the officers were brought in and told explicitly not to enforce the Federal statutes about the English language requirement. Since Harris county is overwhelmingly one sided politically, it is not hard to figure out who decided the policy.

It is not the first, nor the last Federal law that is not being enforced.

 

The DOT has/had a boss that said don't enforce certain laws for certain purposes that the political boss & his boss wanted to happen. Lot's of bad outcomes are intentional, not just accidents or by-product of other actions.

 

That really is an important point to overlook, apparently, it's easier to deal with "after the fact", if it happens, than requiring the language of the country being spoken. It only shows to go, how little we interact with language today.

 

I can't stand this problem, I have turned away a bunch of applicants because they can not communicate in English. I had a driver get into an accident where the person who caused the accident could not speak english and he was hauling a placarded trailer. The cops were pissed that he could not communicate and the dash cam in my truck showed exactly what happened and who was at fault.

So my conclusion is Sean Duffy needs to act on this issue. It is very important for all of us not to deal with non-English speaking people and maybe having CDL holders who have received their license in the past 5 years
needs to present themselves to the DMV/SoS/Whatever state agency to prove they can speak, read and write English. If not they lose their CDL for life seeing that they lied they could. In addition, CDL mills need to be put out of business.

 

If only.......Somehow I doubt this will be corrected soon...still too many believers in the 'Driver Shortage' myth plus all the lefties who think they didn't try hard enough this time!