Posted on 04/28/2025 3:59:15 PM PDT by CFW
Truckers are celebrating President Donald Trump’s decision to restore enforcement of a rule that excludes foreign truckers from the roads if they cannot read English-language signs and instructions.
“They’re celebrating … Everybody’s excited, they’re happy,” said Shannon Everett, a cofounder of American Truckers United. who explained the truckers’ problems to Breitbart News in March.
The change is set by an executive order to be signed by Trump on Monday. The order tells Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy “to ensure drivers violating English proficiency rules are placed out-of-service, enhancing roadway safety,” and directs him to revamp other aspects of the trucking industry.
In 2016, President Barack Obama’s deputies told highway inspectors to stop pulling licenses from drivers who cannot speak English. That issue ballooned under President Joe Biden when many thousands of illegal migrants, legalized migrants, and B-1 visa visitors got commercial driver’s licenses via lax rules in California and other states.
“A prominent trucking insurance executive told me that he estimates more than 40% of the truck drivers in the US are first-generation immigrants,” said a tweet from industry executive Craig Fuller. “10% of the total truck driver population does not speak English proficiently.
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I had an Amazon delivery driver do this to me once when he was looking for an address. I said no habla phone...
non-domicile CDLs are the next problem. We should not be accepting them from countries that do not have the same standards for training and testing that we do.
this guy..
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZjTU_40PJT5i9bae_nRfnw
he’ll give you plunty to laugh at as well as information on current laws moving through states and info on Trump’s EO.
It was. it’s been a requirement for a CDL for as long as I can remember. Bootyjuice changed it from a out of service violation to a ticket..
Yup, Biden did it.
yup, a you tuber, Casey ladelle I think it was, was sent to tow a truck that had the discribed pipe and mess on the drivelines..
it needed to be towed, that meant dropping the drive shaft.
he just got back in his truck and drove away. 3 or 4 flip flop mofia drivers in the cab.
I’m not saying the trucks were likely white volvos but they were white volvos weren’t they?
“I’m not saying the trucks were likely white volvos but they were white volvos weren’t they?”
Lol, who are you hinting at? :)
There are a couple companies who run mostly Volvos. And if you have ever run one you would know that they “were” all white underneath, maybe still. Volvos had a habit of making all their wiring white without even numbers. There was only a paper tag at the connection points that usually only lasted a few weeks and then fell off. So if a driver says he has electrical problems and he is driving a Volvo run the other way... lol
I meant the color of the truck not the make ;)
But ya, they are the nissan altima of trucking. Just about anyone can buy one ;)
Oh I get it! Yes the generic base model cheap trucks... Yep, that seems to be a connection for sure! :)
always the lowest HP and auto shifts lol
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