re: 1,500 trucks off the road to date, says Sean Duffy. NO ENGLISH!

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Has no one ever driven in another country? It's not that difficult.

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1. Driving in the UK or the EU is totally different than driving in Guatemala or Peru.

2. We are importing drivers from Eastern European countries as well as 3rd world.They do not respect road rules, PERIOD!

Guatemala for instance has Napoleonic Laws regarding wrecks. YOU ARE GUILTY UNTIL PROVEN INNOCENT.

Not all.

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I’m usually not talking to people while driving.

What about being able to speak English but unable to read it? What about illiterate Americans?

I have driven in foreign countries with no issues at all.

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And GPS navigation apps that use the driver's preferred language.

If language is a barrier that screws up the efficiency of the driver, why would he continue to be employed?

Considering what I know of the trucking business (a friend from college wanted a change when the economic collapse of 2008 put his landscape architecture firm out of business and drove a rig for a few years before being pulled up into the management office for the company he drove for because he was "too overqualified" to be behind the wheel, though he preferred being on the road but the money was so much better and the stress level was non-existence behind the desk)... unless there's bilingual speakers all along every part of the chain here there would be lots of problems, and problems would make it inefficient, and that would make somebody correct the problem in the simplest way.

Also, the reason we have a trucker shortage is that the industry has mostly shifted to using independent contractor truckers, and they get screwed and lose money driving instead of making it these days... they're put out of business by the system.

So how so many non-English-speaking truckers are part of the system, either Independent or driving for a firm, is a bit of a mystery...

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Also, I knew the son of a trucker who was excited to take a trip with his dad who had to take a load of machinery down to Costa Rica.

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Having lived in Guatemala a few years, Mexico, Guatemala & El Salvador are relatively easy pass throughs.

Honduras & Nicaragua are nightmares. Very few English speaking travelers south of El Salvador.

Living in SoCal, we have numerous cars, trucks and big rigs from Mexico and sometimes farther south on our roads and freeways.
If their vehicles aren't allowed to be sold in the USA then you know they're not safe, yet here they are.

all you gotta do is........

impound the truck as evidence for the drivers deportation hearing which is currently scheduled for 6-7 years out. When the trucking companies are out of trucks, they will happily hire English compliant help

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So signs in the mountains saying there are steep hills.

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Look, we get it. You read his post, saw that people were killed (again) due to the policies you support, and now your sociopathic need for attention is shining through.

You don't need to gas light us. Your side is winning. People are driving illegally, killing Americans, and they are still able to vote Democrat. That is all you care about anyway.

Consider this a triple win. You get the votes, you get Americans killed, then you get attention when you post stupidity supporting this. Here's your validation. Now go wipe the drool off your chin and destroy another thread!

Cartel transportation network getting degraded … hmmmm

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Living in SoCal, we have numerous cars, trucks and big rigs from Mexico and sometimes farther south on our roads and freeways.
If their vehicles aren't allowed to be sold in the USA then you know they're not safe, yet here they are.

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This was one of Pat Buchanan's prime issues when NAFTA was being pushed. I wished I'd listened to Pat back then. He's been a big part in my change of thinking since then. When the evidence started piling up about Mexico, offshoring, etc, it was his arguments that began to sway me.