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To: TornadoAlley3
Isn't proficiency in the English language a requirement for obtaining a CDL?

If so, wonder where this guy got his?

2 posted on 06/06/2007 6:44:17 PM PDT by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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To: mewzilla
Isn't proficiency in the English language a requirement for obtaining a CDL?

He's probably proficient in written English. Speaking it is a totally different skill.

6 posted on 06/06/2007 6:46:20 PM PDT by Tamar1973 (Riding the Korean Wave, one BYJ movie at a time!)
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To: mewzilla

” But 17 states and the District of Columbia offer the commercial driver’s license test in foreign languages.”


11 posted on 06/06/2007 6:49:53 PM PDT by gas0linealley
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Not sure if it's a requirement but having had an AZ CDL and remembering the classes, not to mention the State test where you have to point to and name 100 parts of the truck, it seems improbabble that this guy took a credible course and test. There are some schools where the State has licensed the school to give the final State test. Where I went, for credibility reasons, you went dowm to the Commercial DMV and went through the real thing

Look for an insane mess when the mexican trucks start rolling through. Que?

12 posted on 06/06/2007 6:50:04 PM PDT by n230099 (64,999,987 firearms owners killed no one yesterday.)
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To: mewzilla
Isn't proficiency in the English language a requirement for obtaining a CDL?

Apparently not. The article states: "17 states and the District of Columbia offer the commercial driver's license test in foreign languages."

13 posted on 06/06/2007 6:51:10 PM PDT by YellowRoseofTx
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To: mewzilla

In the above article it says 16 states give the test in foreign languages.


15 posted on 06/06/2007 6:53:20 PM PDT by libbylu
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To: mewzilla

FROM THE ARTICLE: “...But 17 states and the District of Columbia offer the commercial driver’s license test in foreign languages.”


36 posted on 06/06/2007 7:20:55 PM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists...call 'em what you will...They ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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To: mewzilla
If so, wonder where this guy got his?

Well they caught the dot man selling them in Pennsylvania, I doubt if he was the only one. Besides it could have been a real license, just the guy using it wasn't the one it was issued to.

39 posted on 06/06/2007 7:29:15 PM PDT by org.whodat (What's the difference between a Democrat and a republican????)
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To: mewzilla

Federal regulations said that commercial drivers should be able to read and speak the English language sufficiently to converse with the general public. But 17 states and the District of Columbia offer the commercial driver’s license test in foreign languages.


54 posted on 06/06/2007 8:13:02 PM PDT by deport ( Cue Spooky Music...)
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To: mewzilla
In Illinois you buy yours...

November 1994, a fiery crash killed six children from Chicago’s southwest side. The accident was caused by a truck driver who illegally obtained his Illinois commercial drivers license.

Ricardo Guzman cannot speak English and does not have the proper training to drive or maintain his truck. During a delivery to Milwaukee, a chunk of metal fell off his trailer, hit and punctured the gas tank in a family van owned by the Rev. Scott Willis and his wife.


And the money goes to politician campaign funds....

How’s that for IL politics?

67 posted on 06/06/2007 10:12:32 PM PDT by endthematrix (a globalized and integrated world - which is coming, one way or the other. - Hillary)
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