CVSA adding English Language Proficiency to Out of Service Criteria

Wonder how this will affect those drivers that come out of Baja California. Many haul produce from there. I see them all the time on I-5 and I-15. They display Cali and Mex plates.

 

Hmm… now we’ll be stuck in the scales hearing in broken English…
“You no be able do dis. Dis UnMerican. No do this. You no can do dis!”

 

What did they do prior to 2016?

 

Haven't ever seen this but a couple of questions:

1. When that's applied to a driver the only option is to get another driver to that truck to get back in service, no?

2. Do you think they'll allow electronic devices that have real time translation to satisfy the criteria?

 

I know of several Americans that can't read or speak English any better than a foreigner. Matter of fact, I'm friends with one. He pronounces my hometown of Murfreesboro, TN like this: Mofosbourg, TN. When we were using paper logs, I listened to him spell it that way lmao.........

 

"Pursuant to President Donald J. Trump’s Enforcing Commonsense Rules of the Road for America’s Truck Drivers Executive Order,"

This man and the phrase common sense don't belong in the same sentence.....he recently got duped by a photo shop pic, so......can't take him seriously.

 

I don’t see anything about a person’s nationality having anything to do with it, only English proficiency, like it used to be. Friend of mine here in NE fired a guy about 5 years ago because he found out he couldn’t read. He’d send dispatch info, the guy would forward it to his wife, and then she’d tell him what it said. He wasn’t a foreigner but he also shouldn’t have been on the road. The problem is a lot of carriers don’t have a single care as long as they have a warm body to point a truck down the road.

 

Under another administration, I'd agree that it's nothing to do with someone's nationality. Under this administration, I just don't buy that. I also don't really buy that they care about the trucking industry outside of big powerhouse companies. Times are changing though. I'm seeing more shippers and receivers with different languages at these shipping windows. That may get enforced for the short term but as the country gets more diverse, I see a scenario where USA becomes a multilingual country, like many others already are.

 

And I’m sure the administration in 2016 had no ulterior motives when it was decided to no longer be am OOS criteria. It should have been all along, there was no reason to do away with it.