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

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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