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Thousands of truck drivers fail English-proficiency exams, pulled from road

Since June, 6,000 truckers have been taken off the road over the new roadside tests. The Transportation Department said it would withhold funds from California, accusing the state of failing to comply with the new rule.

 

(Matt McClain/The Post)

(Matt McClain/The Post)

By Rachel Hatzipanagos

Eli Soler recently added an element to his classes for would-be commercial truck drivers: a mock roadside English-proficiency test.

“How many hours have you driven? Where is this load going to?” Soler asks Spanish-speaking students while pretending to be a police officer.

Soler, who runs a Miami-based commercial driving school, wants his students to avoid the fate of thousands of commercial truckers who failed roadside English-proficiency tests.

Between June 1 and Monday, about 6,000 truckers were pulled off the road for English-language proficiency violations, according to a Washington Post analysis of Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration data.

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Source: The Washington Post

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