As an American trucker with over 35+ years of driving experience, your claim that a commercial motor vehicle operator (a trucker) must speak and read English was a product of President Trump actions is false. The fact is that this “law” has been part of the U.S. code since 1939 when the Interstate Commerce Commission (aka: ICC) was formed. Later the ICC became the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (aka: FMCSA).
The previous administrations have allowed anyone to secure a drivers license and drive a 80,000 pound (40 ton) vehicle that can kill. If you can’t read and communicate in English, you are both a hazard to yourself and others; the current President thankfully has put a stop to the free for all mentality and the sharp increase of property damage, injury, and senseless deaths by enforcing the current long-standing law that has existed well before any of us were born
FMCSA s. 391.11(b)(2)…
(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 inquiries, and to make entries on reports and records;
[think before following links] https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-49/subtitle-B/chapter-III/subchapter-B/part-391
Think before you spout out trash as facts!!!