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Trump plans to sign an executive order requiring commercial truck drivers to speak English. (www.rawstory.com)

submitted 11 hours ago by pelespirit@sh.itjust.works to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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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.

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[–] nomugisan@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 1 hour ago

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.

[–] Disaster@sh.itjust.works 34 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

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

[+] rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works -10 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

And enforcement was relaxed under Obama

[–] stembolts@programming.dev 8 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I read comments like this and all I can feel is astonishment that anyone's life is so empty that they can dedicate time to caring about this.

Like, it sounds made up, but honestly whether true or not.. like, who cares? It's so trivial and life has so much to offer. This comment is the first and last time I'll ever think about this.

[–] rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works -3 points 1 hour ago

Well, it's fact. Some truckers and trucker's groups have theorized that the increase in CDL involved accidents since the relaxing of this rule are caused instead of simply correlated.

I actually agree with enforcing rules like this so even though trump's an asshole, this one might improve safety.

[–] arun@ani.social 1 points 1 hour ago

Not as relaxed as my dick was under your fugly momma.

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 40 points 5 hours ago

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

[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 14 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] iknowitwheniseeit@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 20 minutes ago

Many laws are written to give the executive branch leeway in defining the details of how a law is to be implemented. This makes sense, assuming everyone is acting in good faith; technologies, science, standards, and best practices all evolve over time.

Laws are usually written in a way to ensure Congressional oversight, to prevent the executive either intentionally or accidentally from subverting their will. But with a treasonous President and a complicit Congress, here we are.... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[–] waz@lemmy.world 20 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

[–] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

Fuck you shoresey

[–] cdf12345@lemm.ee 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Tell your mom to stop faking jellyfish stings, I’m not going to pee on her

[–] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Shut up shorsey

[–] CH3DD4R_G0BL1N@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Fuck you, T00l_shed! Your mom wants me so bad she said she’d do anything so I got her walking around with my phone playing my Pokémon Go.

[–] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

Give your balls a tug, tit-fucker

[–] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 17 points 5 hours ago

That’ll help the shortage of drivers for sure 🙄

[–] YesButActuallyMaybe@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 hours ago

So if you happen to have a thicc Indian accent you need a second guy with you to translate English to English. Gotcha

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 17 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

I guess he's not wrong

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

[–] notabot@lemm.ee 8 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Perfect, he gets to make a big fuss for the racists, but doesn't actually have to change anything. That way there's less risk of breaking anything, and he's probably looking for a win right now.

It's a bit like decreeing that all English week day names must henceforth end in the letter 'y'. It's low risk, makes certain people think you're busy taking action, and leaves everyone else wondering what you're up to with this, taking some of the heat off of other issues.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

People on both sides talk about how he's all powerful but the courts still have more authority. This whole thing proves it

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[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 6 points 5 hours ago

I keep on thinking of the mad tv skit with the woman who says she can't understand people with accents.

[–] DBT@lemmy.world 149 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

"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.

[–] Mac@mander.xyz 5 points 3 hours ago

Meanwhile how many accidents are caused by dumb bitches on their phones?

[–] Zero22xx@lemmy.blahaj.zone 30 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

That's one of the infuriating things about these people. They'll just make up BS that makes Trump seem reasonable. Trump does this English only thing, and now suddenly non-english truck drivers causing accidents is a thing, something that's been a problem all along and thank Jesus he's finally fixing it. Even though this was never actually a real issue that anyone even imagined before today.

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

The number of truck drivers whos first language wasn't English who made deliveries for the distributer I worked with recently was high. The number of times that speaking to them came into the scope of their job was 0. They pulled up, backed a truck up at 3:30am once a week and handed us an invoice. They take a nap while we unloaded the back, then they left. Driving through the night doesn't require you to speak, it requires you to be awake and have decent eyesight/perception. They could have been missing their left leg for all we cared. Trucking is like clock work. If you want groceries with the freshest dates in stores when they open, you need as many people willing to drive overnight and early morning workers to get them from the distributors to the stores and on the shelves before anyone wants to wake up.

[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 4 points 5 hours ago

Being able to read English would be important, not so much speaking it.

[–] socphoenix@midwest.social 52 points 10 hours ago (6 children)

It’s already part of the federal commercial driver regulations too… so no. No they have not. The most they’ve seen is someone with a heavy accent and maybe broken English.

[–] DBT@lemmy.world 47 points 10 hours ago

I’m willing to bet the most they’ve seen is some accidents involving trucks, with no knowledge of what happened or who was driving.

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[–] ButteryNickel@lemmy.wtf 45 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] flicker@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 hours ago

Good news! With the tarriffs throwing cold water on freight all across the US, we won't need as many truck drivers!

...I really wish I was joking, but the fiance is OTR and freight has already slowed for him. Here's an article from February that talks about how it was already slower than expected.

[–] BombOmOm@lemmy.world 63 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 35 points 9 hours ago

Can't pull someone for "driving while brown", but you can pull someone over for "driving while not speaking English, which I just concluded from you being brown"

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[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 73 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 94 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

Won't this disqualify half his illiterate base

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 41 points 10 hours ago (11 children)

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[–] lemmy_outta_here@lemmy.world 29 points 10 hours ago (10 children)

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

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[–] hellfire103@lemmy.ca 11 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 hours ago

again

Still

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