Oops! Arkansas Truckers Face $5,000 Fines If They Can't Pass an English Literacy Test

[TBoneTX 47,501]

What do we think of this?

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Oops!  Arkansas Truckers Face $5,000 Fines If They Can't Pass an English Literacy Test

Numerous countries, such as Mexico, mandate that individuals seeking citizenship demonstrate fluency in the national language, encompassing both reading and writing skills.  The United States should adopt a comparable standard of linguistic proficiency for citizenship, yet regrettably, it does not.  However, Arkansas has identified a clever workaround.  The Commercial Driver's License (CDL), a mandatory credential for truck drivers, requires fluency in English.  The state is now actively enforcing this regulation.  [...]

https://twitchy.com/justmindy/2025/03/16/arkansas-truck-drivers-must-speak-english-n2409921

[P055UM 329]

If this is something that has to be checked, it should be checked at the time of issuing of the license. Checking at the side of the road wastes both time and resources. 

[Dashinka 25,850]

8 hours ago, TBoneTX said:

The United States should adopt a comparable standard of linguistic proficiency for citizenship, yet regrettably, it does not. 

There is no English proficiency test for the N400?  Apparently this person is not very knowledgeable when it comes to immigration.

 

My other question is I wonder how many natural born USCs that have gone through the public education system can pass this test?

Edited March 17 by Dashinka

[TBoneTX 47,501]

15 hours ago, Dashinka said:

There is no English proficiency test for the N400?  Apparently this person is not very knowledgeable when it comes to immigration.

True of course, but perhaps we can partially excuse it because of how objectively lame the N-400 proficiency test is.

18 hours ago, P055UM said:

If this is something that has to be checked, it should be checked at the time of issuing of the license. Checking at the side of the road wastes both time and resources. 

Agree fully.

[Dashinka 25,850]

5 hours ago, TBoneTX said:

True of course, but perhaps we can partially excuse it because of how objectively lame the N-400 proficiency test is.

Agree fully.

Fair enough regarding the English proficiency test.  That being said, it does exist.

[TBoneTX 47,501]

Really interesting article!

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Why Do Truck Drivers Need to Speak English?
 

The left is furious that the Trump administration is officially enforcing (effective date: June 25) the longstanding law that truck drivers must be proficient in English.

 

The left claims that you don't need to speak English to drive; this must be bigotry against immigrants, or against Spanish speakers, or against the uneducated, or against certain ethnicities.

It's not.

 

Whether one is an immigrant or a native American, whether one has a college degree or just a high school diploma, whether one's skin color is black or white or plaid or polka-dotted — none of this matters to the question of whether a person can be a safe truck driver.

What does matter?  [...]

 

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/05/why_do_truck_drivers_need_to_speak_english.html

[Jericho 30]

You'd be surprised at how low the literacy rate is among the whole shipping/import/export industry. I work in supply chain logistics, for a major international company, and we struggled with hiring when we increased the education/testing requirements for employment. From longshoremen, drivers, dispatchers, and even sales and customs forwarders. Most of those jobs only require a high school diploma and a decent score on the application exam, but many get around that through union ties. About 12 years ago, our company was lobbying for the implementation of E-Verify, but almost every state that we have port access in wouldn't even hear it, Texas being the loudest no. I don't know why primarily red states will fight to the death to prevent E-Verify being implemented. They use the same clap trap excuse of it being bad for small business', but nobody buys that.