Why In the world was any of this nonsense even part of CDL requirements??

Brought to you by the same folks who claim there are 72 genders, but only choose to use the ladies room.

 

Okay, now show me the exact requirements that they're calling DEI and Climate Change requirements. Sounds a lot like political wrangling so they sound good and the old boss sounds bad.

 

In a nutshell its because certain powers to be since 2008 had started a religion and belief that the US is bad and is causing climate change that effects other countries and mostly people of color all over the world. So in order to get gubment grants you have to hire minority lgbt’s or new immigrants from “effected” countries as employees and have to have a game plan as to how as a business are going to stip climate change. This is way crap is falling apart everywhere. Hiring the wrong people for the wrong reasons to do job’s they know nothing about just to get the grant money.

 

A cdl school would be forced to hire folks that know nothing about trucks or trucking or even driving a car correctly for the dei. For the climate change bs they could simply pledge they will only burn so much fuel a month or let the trucks be run only a certain amount of hours every month. So that means less real life out on the streets training. More textbook, video training in a solar powered classroom so not much dirty diesel actually gets used to achieve a cdl. Just to get guvment money.

 

First of all, this grant isn't for CDL schools. It's for State agencies to comply with FMCSA record keeping requirements, to fund the implementation of ELDT reporting, and increase the capacity to conduct CDL tests.

Secondly, DEI does not mean hiring unqualified individuals. Quite the opposite in fact. If a carrier has a program to 'promote' drivers/mechanics into management roles without the prerequisite college degree - that's DEI. Having some kind of a 'Driver Advisory Committee' - that's DEI. Paying interns? Yep, that's DEI too. Heck, just having a policy against discrimination and harassment is DEI.

Even if DEI meant quota hiring, do you not think that there aren't plenty of qualified Black/Hispanic/Asian/Woman/Queer/Etc drivers that could easily staff CDL schools to meet these mythological hiring quotas?

I have no idea what 'climate change requirements' were part of CDLPI grants. For that matter, I don't know if there were any DEI requirements either.

If we want to talk about things that reduce "real life out on the streets training", then we need to talk about Trump's ELDT requirements. They dramatically increase the required classroom elements while doing NOTHING to change skills testing. The tests are still the same, you just have to pay for a class before you can take them. The DMV must create a process for 'schools' to submit the records and pay employees to process the extra paperwork - hence the need for CDLPI grants.

 

it’s been part of the application review for years 2021-2024 so figure out why then. These grants filter down to smaller entities down the training line. I know of one cdl school in san Antonio that had to allot some of the money given to them to take over the dps driving tests for construction of a walking trail along a creek in the ghetto side of town where they were located.

 

Maybe something to do with truck drivers being unable to figure out that deleting emissions controls is a bad thing? And a different way of classifying EOE? It's just a fragment of a sentence on a slide. Sounds to me like there was no guidance on what it actually meant if people were maintaining ####ing hiking trails.

 

A CDL school had to use grant money to construct a walking trail? Please.

Grants also don't "filter down", at least not how you're implying.

Finally (and again) - what are the specific "Racial Equality and Climate Change & Sustainability" requirements?

 

Since nobody else is going to do it I found the actual source. Sounds kind of boilerplate stuff that goes in every grant. Just an extra section that sees if there's any additional benefit from the proposed program that might not be reflected in the standard details. There's certainly something to be said about the ability for poor people to get a leg up by earning their CDL.
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