If you’re a regular reader of RedState, you’ll know that the issue of commercial trucker drivers who regularly drive the nation’s interstates while not speaking a lick of English has been popping these past few months.
Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy sounded the alarm back in July when he hit the media to warn drivers that they’ll be “taken out of service” if they are unable to read basic road signs. Here’s Duffy at the time:
Drivers of commercial vehicles who can’t speak our national language will be taken out of service. This is just common sense.
Drivers who can’t read our signs or communicate with law enforcement have no business being on our roads.
America First = Safety First!
Duffy’s comments came a few months after President Trump signed an executive order vowing to enforce the federal law requiring drivers to 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.” Worryingly, this law had apparently not been enforced for years.
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The issue took on new urgency following an August crash in Florida involving a tractor-trailer driver who allegedly made an illegal U-turn, causing a crash that resulted in the deaths of three people. That driver, Harjinder Singh, was an illegal alien from India who apparently did not speak, understand, or read English.
As it turns out, this issue isn’t just one being faced by the long-haul trucking industry – it looks like your local rideshare driver may also not speak the country’s official language. Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama has a plan to address that issue with his new bill, the Understanding Basic English Requirements (UBER) Act.
🚨BREAKING: @SenTuberville introduced a bill Thursday that would require rideshare drivers to be able to speak English.
Under the Understanding Basic English Requirements (UBER) Act, rideshare drivers for companies that receive government contracts would need to be proficient in… pic.twitter.com/oEgjQLLG5z
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According to Tuberville’s office, the UBER Act “would require drivers participating in rideshare applications that receive government contracts to be proficient in English. His bill would strengthen the safety of rideshare users by requiring drivers to be able to read and speak English, aligning their hiring standards with all federal Commercial Driver’s License (CDL) requirements. The UBER Act would ensure that non-compliant platforms would be debarred from receiving federal contracts for five years.”
Tuberville remarked, “America is an English-speaking country. If you want to live and work in the United States, you need to be able to speak and read our language. Too many Americans have been killed as a result of relaxed standards and illegal immigrants who do not speak or read English and are driving on our roads. Rideshare companies, especially those that receive taxpayer funding, have an obligation to vet the drivers who are transporting American citizens on our roads. I’m proud to introduce this legislation as another guardrail to keep Americans safe on the road.”
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This isn’t Sen. Tuberville’s first foray into making road travel safer for Americans. Just last month, he introduced the Secure Commercial Licensing Act, legislation that would require CDL testing to done in English to ensure language proficiency in drivers.
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