The court has already said they can come over.
Does “Ebonics” count?
At what level do that have to speak? There is a huge difference in reading road signs and conversational speech. There is also a big difference reading and understanding what you have read. I can read almost anything in German and some Chinese but often I have no clue as to the meaning of what I jest read.
What would be better for both countries is swapping trailers at a zone boarder. Mexican drivers stay in Mexico, US drivers stay in the US. All cargo is inspected at the transfer point for extra passengers, drugs or other contraband. That way we both have safe drivers and we know what is being shipped.
The article says: “The North American Free Trade Agreement in 1994 called for Mexican and U.S. trucks to travel freely throughout one another’s nations, but the provision was stalled by labor unions and environmental groups’ arguments that the trucks are unsafe.” Notice that’s in 1994, when Clinton was president. The democrats can’t blame us for this one. I like the idea that someone had of exchanging drivers at the border. It might work.
“..pulled off the highway if state troopers or vehicle inspectors find they can’t speak English.”
Are they required to possess a drivers license?
English is the language of commerce in this country, just like the dollar is the currency of commerce.
Try using another currency to do business in this country and see what happens.
They keep using that word. I do not think it means what we think that they think it means.
Like being required to register your alien status. Or being required to have a green card before you can work here. Like being required to read, write, and do arithematic in order to graduate high school.
Spineless, unenforceable "requirements."
Sure they will. Just like it is against the law for teachers in Arizona to teach in spanish. Of course, when they do teach in spanish because they CAN'T speak English, guess what happens?
NOTHING.
Once the mexican trucker are let in on the "pilot program" we will play hell getting them out. They will play hell on the highways as long as they are here. American Citizens will die for this stupidity. The enablers of this should hang.
This will be challenged in court and our elected officials will back away and not enforce this.
We will see how much this law is enforced. I would guess not at all.
And.....this is suppose to??????
Not because any significant majority of the public wants them to.
After a year or so of being screwed with by foreign thugs driving giant vehicles I predict this to emerge as a major campaign issue.
And the only people for it will be a few shipping companies who just want to break trucker unions and the La Raza hate groups. And, of course, the principle representatives of those two groups, the Bush family.
That'll do it.
So truckers will be required to speak English?
And exactly, what is the benchmark for speaking English?
Si = Yes?
No = No?
You pass the test. Go on your way.
Our fatally, flawed government (full of crooks and perverts) consider us so stupid.
This WND article reports that teachers in Mesa, AZ, incompetently, do not speak English...http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=57419
Probable little enforcement or detection will be effected to this trucking requirement...there are uncountable ‘false front’ regulations in the US now.
Why didn’t anyone alert me that pigs are now winged lofty creatures?
La FMCSA les da la Bienvenida a los Autotransportistas Mexicanos: Aquí usted encontrará recursos, información, y solicitudes necesarias para operar de manera segura en los EE.UU.
FMCSA Welcomes Mexican Motor Carriers: Here you will find resources, information, and applications to assist you in operating safely in the U.S.
That should read "THE BILL AND HILLARY CLINTON" North American Free Trade Agreement in 1994