Gord Magill

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798 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 1 Jun

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And as all these systems start losing customers because people got wise to this stuff, and then we have the sort of open borders policies of various administrations, which, you know, really went on steroids under Biden.
The country's flooded with tens of millions of people, and many of them start going into the trucking industry.
Some friends of mine have been studying the sort of issue
of CDLs by various states.
And this has been the sort of locus of Secretary Duffy's investigations into this stuff.
You know, shout out to Shannon and his crew at American Truckers United for doing this.
They've found that, like, we're talking hundreds of thousands of CDLs have been issued in a suspicious or outright illegal manner, many of them to people who do not qualify under federal regulations, right?
So...
There's an old federal regulation that's been on the books since 1937, which stipulates that to drive a commercial vehicle in the United States, you must have a certain command of the English language, right?
You have to be able to communicate with law enforcement, the motoring public, read information signs, read construction signs.
We know we have signs everywhere on our highways.
You know, hey, this lane is closing.
There's construction up ahead.
You have to put your tire chains on to go over Donner Pass.
You know, the wind is too high in Wyoming.
And they're all in English.
America is, for better or worse, an English country.
This is a safety-sensitive job where you can crash a truck and kill people.
You should probably know English.
In 2016, the regulation of that, or I should say the enforcement of that regulation was waived in the waning days of the Obama administration.
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