"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.

Oh yea? You and many others have witnessed many accidents that were due to a truck driver’s inability to speak English?

You dumb bitch.

Won't this disqualify half his illiterate base

This is just an excuse for ICE to pull people over. And since they're a part of the executive branch, they care less about due process and laws.

I have a CDL, Class A with X endorsement.

This changes nothing. CDL manuals, exams, and paperwork are all in English. What I think Trump thinks he's doing is banning Mexicans from driving trucks in the US, but this is controlled by a reciprocity agreement between the US and Mexico. Surprise, Mexicans don't have to take American exams for a CDL when they can have a license issued by the Mexican government.

Basically all this is is white supremacist virtue signaling.

This is already a Commercial Driver's License requirement. What is the specific issue here?

"Interpreters are prohibited during the administration of skills tests. Applicants must be able to understand and respond to verbal commands and instructions in English by a skills test examiner." CDL Standards

CDL drivers have been required to speak English since 1936, though.

That'll surely fix our surplus of truck drivers! /s

yet another thing that has no legal standing and only exists to make the idiots think trump is accomplishing something

So the party of small government is going to administer english tests to truck drivers? maybe create some kind of language registry with proficiency levels? sounds kinda woke

Good thing we won't need so many of those when supply chains dry up from tariffs!

Trump can't even speak English.

Not sure about other states, but in mine, the ability to read and understand English is a requirement for getting a license...

Now you could make an argument that's not the same as speaking English, and my rebuttal is "should we ban mute, or speech-impared people from getting a CDL"?

As always another trump "policy" that'll backfire spectacularly

Who the fuck is supposed to drive the trucks then? I live in (upstate) New York and it seems like even up there a significant population of Mexican truck drivers.

Executive orders are not laws. He can direct how the law in enforced, but he can't just unilaterally define new laws

That’ll help the shortage of drivers for sure 🙄

Ah yes, those unqualified drivers that are being hired as professional truck drivers. It's their lack of English skills that are the problem.

How was their totally legitimate and law abiding employer supposed to know about their lack of ability or driving licence? They are the real victims here, being forced to hire them and all.

I guess he's not wrong

However this is useless as you need to speak English to get a commercial license

The same people who said they would remove big government that tries to control everything and everyone

So…. Let’s get this straight… he is signing orders to make things happen that have been happening for almost a century now??

What’s next, an executive order to make air breathable??

US economy crashing again in 3...2...1...