Many service members live overseas and do not speak the native language of their host countries. They still acquire driver's licenses and do just fine.
I got my driver's license after I'd been in Germany for a few months and only spoke about a dozen words of German. The workbook was in English as was the test.
No, you don't have to speak English to drive in America.
To drive professionally, ie get paid for it, you MUST speak and comprehend English. The Commercial Drivers license has many more rules to it.
Yes, but in Germany they use international road signs. We don’t use them here, most of our signs have written instructions in English.
Do you feel safe knowing someone who can’t read a road sign or understand when a DOT officer says - in English - “your truck is not safe, you are out of service” - is driving an 80,000 pound vehicle on the same roads as your family?
There are many reasons the FMCSA regulations require those driving big trucks speak English - it’s not just getting your license or reading a stop sign.
I doubt many of those Mexican driver have ever been to Germany.
What German company did you drive for, and what cargo did you haul?
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Thought so; there's a vast difference between getting a garden-variety passenger car license and a haulage license. Mexicans, Italians, Germans, even Brits that drive on the wrong side of the road -- all can use their home country license in the States to rent a passenger car. None of them can drive a truck or a bus.