I mean, after all, if you can't read, speak, or understand the English language, you are disqualified from driving.......right?
Language Barrier ... this is out of hand
Discussion in 'Trucking Industry Regulations' started by FitsShipping, Feb 3, 2025.
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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. -
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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.
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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.Knucklehead, classic_150, Gearjammin' Penguin and 7 others Thank this. -
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