“The growing number of foreign drivers serving large trucks on American roads poses a threat to Americans and negatively affects the source of income for American drivers,” Rubio wrote on the X website. However, he did not provide more details.
In April, US President Donald Trump signed an executive ordinance on the enforcement of a provision that requires English to know English at the appropriate level.
As the Dziennik “USA Today” emphasized, transport experts do not have data on how many accidents involving trucks may be caused by foreigners who are unable to read the inscriptions in road signs in English.
According to the newspaper in the last two months at least 3 thousand Truck drivers did not pass the obligatory exam introduced by Trump.
The decision on visas was made at a difficult moment, because the industry is still recovering after staff shortages, which, according to the American Road Transport Association in 2022, amounted to 79 thousand. drivers – wrote Bloomberg.
