Why Truck Drivers Need To Speak English

I keep seeing this claim by people that somehow this enforcement is “bigotry”. Actually it’s common sense. How is a driver supposed to make any safe decisions if they can’t read the signs or understand what a DOT cop is telling them?

The English requirement has been on the books for a long time. Unfortunately some dimwit at FMCSA decided it was a good idea to address the “driver shortage” by allowing non English speaking drivers to get CDL’s and owner op authority (Amazon contractors) and now the industry is flooded with these people. Just about anywhere I go I’m the only driver that speaks English.
I deal with Shipping & Receiving clerks who are fed up at dealing with these “drivers”. Same for truck stop employees as well. I see it in the increasingly hostile attitudes towards me because my profession is now looked down upon more than ever. I’ve had friends and family ask me “WTH is wrong with you truckers??”… especially after the increasing headlines where one of those drivers is involved in pile ups. That recent mess in Austin TX is a prime example.

On the road I’ve been seeing countless instances of unsafe driving by these “foreigners”, speeding and acting reckless through work zones & hazardous weather/road conditions, flying through truck stop lots, backing into other trucks, etc.

Rates have been in the toilets because these foreign owner op contractors working for peanuts when they branch off from companies like Amazon, Super Ego and other unscrupulous “lease purchase” companies.

It’s long past time for something to be done, and FMCSA’s failures throughout the past 20+ years have now resulted in an industry flooded with poorly trained drivers who cabt even read the simplest road signs, and shouldn’t even be allowed to operate a bicycle let alone a semi truck.

 

This country has become so intolerant to foreigners. We need to be bilingual to accommodate diverse cultures.

 

I believe there are as many languages we need to master as there are genders we are to tolerate.

 

Always has been.
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Should I go on?

 

Based on the ridiculous accidents out here, the amount people that can't back a truck etc we got a serious problem .

Something needs to be done.

 

Immigration or Emigration has been a bone of contention in every single country on earth since the concept of a country began at the dawn of civilization.

 

reread the post
"I'm not opposed to the petition in itself, it's SITE it's on."

I'm not signing in to any web site that is so blatantly pro trump propaganda

I AGREE with the fact we need English speaking drivers

 

Holy #### what is that headline picture? What does Trump getting a scratch from a piece of glass or his guard's belt have to do with English-speaking truckers?

 

What first world countries allow essentially anyone to immigrate and take unskilled labor jobs from their natural born citizens?

 

I believe the quote goes "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore."