MAGA fans are rejoicing on social media in favor of President Donald Trump’s plan to sign an executive order requiring commercial truck drivers to speak English.
Breitbart News reported that Trump would sign the order Monday evening because “President Trump believes that English is a non-negotiable safety requirement for professional drivers.” Last month, Trump designated English as “the official language of the United States.”
“This is such a big deal! So grateful for this, the roads will be much safer. Like many, I have seen many accidents or near accidents from unqualified drivers,” posted @coffeegirlvegas.
Oof that will crash the trucking industry.
It was going to mostly crash anyway, when the ships stop coming next week, due to the tariffs.
Seattle port looking awfuly vacant and que them for drivers is 0-25 minutes.
How so?
I’m not sure how you could possibly get a CDL without speaking English. Also trucking is a good way to lose money.
Trucking is the quickest way to make $100k/year. It ain’t easy hours but demand for drivers is insanely high. My company at one point was offering $15k signing bonus for drivers.
I personally know at least a dozen that I work with daily at work that do not have any English fluency whatsoever.
Actually it’s helped my Spanish skills lol
I had no idea that was possible
I dunno how they did it. They’re third party contract drivers.
But we do live in a very Spanish-speaking part of the country so it was probably as easy as finding a friendly enough bi-lingual examiner at the DMV.