Alabama revenue enhancement at the expense of Hispanic Commercial Truck Drivers

Jul 172008
 
 17/07/2008  Posted by PMC at 12:43 on 17/07/2008 Comments Off
Alabama revenue enhancement at the expense of Hispanic Commercial Truck Drivers

Alabama State Troopers are enhancing revenue in that state using the vague provisions of FMCSA Regulation 391.11 (b)(2), the controversial rule requiring CDL holders to be conversant in English This rule leaves it up to the individual officer or inspector to determine, in his mind, what is “sufficient”. This can be open to abuse and a persons personal prejudice due to the vague nature of the regulation. FMCSA Regulation 391.11 (b)(2) Can 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 ….Read More

Ruben Navarrette – A fair deal for Mexico’s truckers

Nov 272007
 
 27/11/2007  Posted by PMC at 19:44 on 27/11/2007 Comments Off

Editors Note: Relevant then, even more so now. I’ve hit a fork in the road in my thinking concerning the unrelenting campaign by the Teamsters to deny Mexican trucks access to U.S. highways. On the one hand, I recognize that these efforts are deplorable and destructive. They’ve tarnished the international reputation of the United States as a trading partner; highways in Mexico, Canada and the United States are supposed to be open to truckers from all three countries under the North American Free Trade Agreement.

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