Truck driver's lack of English leads to truck-train crash
Police in Kings Mountain, NC, say a driver’s lack of understanding of the English language appears to have led to a violent wreck between a train and a tractor-trailer. Truck driver Ricardo Ercia was crossing several train lines in town at South Battleground Avenue and Oak Street when he didn’t obey a traffic sign calling for drivers to go through a second rail line crossing. Fortunatley, there were no serious injuries. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations require that truck drivers be able to read and understand the English language.
Use of foreign truck drivers and allowing Mexican trucking companies to operate nationwide in the US has been an increasingly controversial topic in the trucking industry. For the last few years it has become increasingly evident that if the trucking industry could outsource driving jobs to third world countries to save money, it would do so.
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I read your article with interest, It is going to be a carnage when the Mexican Truck Drivers get going. I don't know when the monetary enrichment of Mexican Drivers
became more important than human life.
The problem with this isn't that the driver didn't comprehend english as required by the FMCSA Regulation391.11(b)(2). The problem is that the various states, in an effort to be politically correct and under pressure from ACLU lawyers now allow people to take their licensing tests in foreign languages
