Government enforcing rule that Mexican truckers speak English
8/31/07
HARLINGEN, Texas Interstate truck and bus drivers across America may find themselves pulled off the highway if state troopers or vehicle inspectors find they can't speak English.
The requirement has been on the books for decades, but enforcement has begun before Mexican trucks are allowed in the U.S. interior as of Sept. 6.
"We have found people in violation of this for a number of years and we're working feverishly to correct it," said John Hill, head of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.
Since 1971, federal law has said that commercial drivers must read and speak English "sufficiently to understand highway traffic signs and signals and directions given in English and to respond to official inquiries."
Hill said the language deficiency was found mostly in the commercial zone that varies from 25 miles to 75 miles north of the Mexican border, but since inspectors there are bilingual and Mexican truckers are not allowed past that zone, it hasn't been an issue.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/5099355.html
Government enforcing rule that Mexican truckers speak English
Discussion in 'Truckers News' started by Cybergal, Aug 31, 2007.
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..those drivers from N. Carolina, Georgia, & Alabama???
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Both English & American, but also fluent in Texan!
Texan: I might cuda had that philly and was fixin to til my old lady showed up and hit me cross the hade!
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I assume the English was The Queen's English, meaning a little ####ney and maybe some OZ thrown in with it.
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I realy think the whole Mexican driver thing is going to blow up in our faces and in the end make truck drivers look worse in the public eye..... but that aside.. Does anyone really know why the Canadians speak so funny
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