CFR's Plan to Integrate the U.S., Mexico and Canada (July 2005)

eagleforum. ^ | July 13, 2005 | Phyllis Schlafly

[grey_whiskers]

Not necessarily tin-foil hat.

Check out this earlier posting to Free Republic from the White House website...

It reads like the CFR's wet dream.

Cheers!

[Pete-R-Bilt]

I looked around but I couldn't see anywhere that the B-1(b)visa was gonna be suspended or modified so Idunnobout this...

the rules are pretty well laid out

http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/import/carriers/land/how.xml

not to mention the CVSA added language with teeth about out of service criteria involving communication skills


http://www.lumberassoc.com/Legislative/Regulatory%20News%205-05.pdf

All CVSA certified law enforcement agencies (and most of them are certified) use these criteria wheninspecting your vehicles and determining whether the vehicle or driver is classified as OOS.

Once a driver or vehicle is declared OOS, the vehicle cannot be moved until the issue is resolved and you are back incompliance.

One notable inclusion to the new OOS criteria is the following reference regarding drivers:“If a commercial vehicle driver is unable to communicate sufficiently to understand and respond to official inquires and directions, he/she will be placed out of service.

”In accordance with FMCSR 391.11 (b)(2) a person is qualified to operate a commercial vehicle if he/she:(b)(2) Can 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;Remember, that this applies to all commercial vehicles, not just your fleet vehicles that require a CDL to operate.

While the new CVSA OOS criteria is not an “English Language Requirement”, it is important to understand that you, as a motor carrier, have the obligation to ensure that all your drivers have sufficient communication skills to carry out their assigned duties.

Don’t rely on the officer being able to speak Spanish or other language in order to communicate with your driver. Stephen A. Keppler, Director of Policy and Programs for CVSA states that, “It (communicating sufficiently) has become more of an issue over the last few years because our members (U.S., Canadian,and Mexican enforcement agencies) are seeing many more instances of this on the highway and have experienced problems, and NTSB has several ongoing accident investigations where they believe this issue may have been a contributing factor. It is both a highway safety and officer safety issue.”

Its not just an OK you can come in nowthing...

http://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/about/news/news-releases/2002/031402.htm

and now that Annette Sandburg is gone, (ding dong the witch is dead!) the popular appointee pro-tem is a career carrier safetey enforcement director from Indiana and a 20 some year leo


my tin hatter friends all let me know when they feel the radio wave banging off thier foreheads but I don't think I need to cook or speak mexican just yet.

but we ALL must keep up the good fight!

I had such great expectations for Bush, I feel so mislead