Trump asks truck drivers to speak English, install literacy tests as “communication issues”: WH
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said President Donald Trump will sign an executive order requiring truck drivers to pass UK literacy tests, which will strengthen road safety.
Trump will sign a “order to direct the Department of Transport to conduct UK literacy tests for our truck drivers. This is a big problem in the trucking community,” Levitt said in a press conference with members of the new media on Monday afternoon. The press conference was separated from the White House press conference Monday morning.
Levitt said Trump is expected to sign an executive order later Monday afternoon.
“You may not know, but there are a lot of communication issues with truck drivers between federal officials and local officials, which is obviously a public safety risk,” Leavitt continued. “So, we will make sure that truck drivers at the backbone of our economy can speak English. It’s a very common sense policy.”
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President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order requiring truck drivers to pass the English literacy test. (Bob Riha Jr./Reuters)
Fox News’s Wil Cain reported earlier in April that “The Will Cain Show,” truck experts reported influx of foreign-born truck drivers born in recent years.
Cain quoted experts as saying that former President Barack Obama’s administration blocked British demands for driver enforcement in 2016, while the Biden-Harris administration promoted an initiative in 2024 that increased the initiative to train trucks in the U.S., which increased the number of foreign truck drivers operating in the U.S. in the U.S. in the U.S.
Trump praised truckers during the coronavirus pandemic in 2020 under his first administration, under his first administration, his executive order made the expected executive order as their jobs transport goods to stores as the state locks in.
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“American truck drivers are the infantry that really bring us victory,” Trump said from the White House in April 2020. “They did an incredible job. We had no problem. It was just–it was great.”
“Thank God for the truck driver,” he added.
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to media at the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C. (Evelyn Hawkstan/Reuters)
This is at least the second executive order, focusing on the English signed by Trump since his return from the Oval Office in January. Trump signed a separate executive order in March to declare English as the official language of the United States
Truck transport supervisor said
“The language designated by the nation is at the heart of a unified and cohesive society, and USA “By strengthening by a citizen who can freely lift his mind,” Trump wrote in that order.
American flag stretches at the front of the rear of the semi-truck.
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The order revoked an executive order issued by former President Bill Clinton in 2000, titled “Improving Access Services for People with Limited English Proficiency,” which requires federal agencies and recipients of federal funds to provide language assistance to non-English speakers.
Alexandra Koch of Fox News Digital contributed to the report.
