ARKANSAS English Checks Have Begun, They’re checking ALL trucks

All they gotta do is look at the scale bear and say “gaeetyet” or how’s ya mama an dem? Anything else we ain’t gone understand anyway. Can’t none of us spell neither.

 

Ha Ha I was more trying to be funny on this. Guess I came across a little different. Was only making fun of how Oregon is. Keyboard never shows the correct emotions.

 

My family came from German/Irish many years back to the midwest. Dad and Uncle fought in WW2, Grand Father fought in WW1, Great Grand Dad fought in Civil war. We have our own cemetery in MO but most of recent family is in a few other places close by. Lots of history going back years.

 

I’ll think about putting you back on my Christmas card list

Stuck in Ogallala, NE..80 is closed.. Speaking of Oregon, had a Jubitz gal wanting to take me home, lol. I guess my Boston accent turned her on.. She wasn’t shy about it either

 

Bout friggin time…we got people in my province who have the option of taking their drivers license test in 50 languages when ALL our road signs are ENGLISH…these people can’t read a highway sign that changes daily warning of weather, traffic etc…

 

I’m convinced that no one, English speaking or not, can read road signs.

 

VOID

 

And this is the definition of Judicial overreach

Eventually, the Supreme Court extended these constitutional protections to all alienswithin the United States, including those who entered unlawfully, declaring that aliens who have once passed through our gates, even illegally, may be expelled only after proceedings conforming to traditional standards of fairness encompassed in due process of law.3 The Court reasoned that aliens physically present in the United States, regardless of their legal status, are recognized as persons guaranteed due process of law by the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments.4 Thus, the Court determined, [e]ven one whose presence in this country is unlawful, involuntary, or transitory is entitled to that constitutional protection.5 Accordingly, notwithstanding Congress’s indisputably broad power to regulate immigration, fundamental due process requirements notably constrained that power with respect to aliens within the territorial jurisdiction of the United States

 

You guys are forgetting one thing. They are not targeting every driver only operators of commercial vehicles. The statute is very clear.


CDL English Proficiency Requirement Under FMCSA Explained
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Truck accidents and the CDL English proficiency requirement under the FMCSA

As a truck accident lawyer, I have handled cases involving people who have been seriously injured in truck wrecks at the hands of commercial drivers who do not speak English. Drivers who do not speak English fluently are in violation of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Rules. The companies that hire these drivers, who may pose a greater risk of causing a truck accident because they do not speak English or may be confused by English language on a road sign, are in violation of the CDL English proficiency requirement as well.

This safety requirement under the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration remains in place, even as we enter a global economy and are seeing new agreements that allow Mexican and Canadian motor carriers on U.S. roads.

Here’s the CDL English proficiency requirement for commercial truck and bus drivers in the U.S., according to the FMCSA:

• “A person shall not drive a commercial motor vehicle unless he/she is qualified to drive a commercial motor vehicle. . . . [A] motor carrier shall not require or permit a person to drive a commercial motor vehicle unless that person is qualified to drive a commercial motor vehicle.” (49 CFR § 391.11(a))
• A “person is qualified to drive a motor vehicle if he/she . . . [c]an read and speak the English language sufficiently to converse with the general public, to understand highway traffic signs and signals in the English language, to respond to official inquiries, and to make entries on reports and records . . .” (49 CFR § 391.11(b)(2))

The CDL English proficiency requirement is an important topic, and I have spoken at legal seminars on this issue, which is often missed by attorneys who litigate commercial truck cases but do not know that companies are required to hire drivers who are proficient in reading and speaking English.