Traffic Jam Follow-up

Here's a follow-up on yesterday morning's post on the impact of White House trade taxes on the North American trucking sector.

Unsatisfied with disrupting and breaking the over the road freight business President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday requiring truck drivers to pass English literacy tests as a "non-negotiable safety requirement" amid mounting communication problems between truckers and federal and local officials.

I'm sure this tough, new, executive order has been lauded in Trump World; except for the fact that federal regulations already require fluency in English to drive a commercial motor vehicle (CMV) in the United States.

According to 49 CFR § 391.11(b)(2) from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations (FMCSR), a driver must:

“Be able to read and speak the English language sufficiently to converse with the general public, to understand highway traffic signs and signals in the English language, to respond to official inquiries, and to make entries on reports and records.”

If I had to hazard a guess the White House is looking for a reason to stop and interrogate brown skinned truckers who also happen to speak Spanish.

Nah.  Too conspiratorial.  They'd never do that.  Would they?