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Sep 4, 2014

BABEL TOWERS, TRUCKERS´LANGUAGE? * Canada

* Ontario - How to understand truckers who speak with a thick accent 

(Photo: FAST Card Document Requirements for Canadian Truckers) 
Toronto,ONT,CAN -Today's Trucking, by Teona Baetu and Peter Carter -Sep 2, 2014: ... It's no secret that Canada is a multicultural hub and that truck driving—perhaps more than any other industry—is a popular choice for many immigrants... Drivers born in Russia have to take orders from Punjabi dispatchers and Jamaican-born diesel techs are supposed to understand parts-sales reps from Mexico. They all speak English, but none of them talk the same way... The misunderstandings lead to frustration and inefficiency. Money as well as tempers get lost. Sometimes, it’s amazing any information gets passed along whatsoever, never mind that most of it ends up being accurate... So because we know everybody would benefit if we all understood each other better, we’ve come up with the following tips to make communicating with foreign clients or immigrant drivers easier. Some are dead obvious but, like exercise, not easy to get around to. Others—the high-tech ones—might have simply never occurred to you before...

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Jul 19, 2008

Non English Truckers Ticketed * USA - Feds look to tighten English law for truckers

Tuscaloosa,ALA,USA -AP, by JAY REEVES -18 July 2008: -- Manuel Castillo was driving a truck through Alabama hauling onions and left with a $500 ticket for something he didn't think he was doing: speaking English poorly... Castillo, who was stopped on his way back to California, said he knows federal law requires him to be able to converse in English with an officer but he thought his language skills were good enough to avoid a ticket... Still, Castillo said he plans to pay the maximum fine of $500 rather than return to Alabama to fight the ticket... "It just doesn't seem fair to be ticketed if I wasn't doing anything dangerous on the road," he said... Federal law requires that anyone with a commercial drivers license speak English well enough to talk with police. Authorities last year issued 25,230 tickets nationwide for violations. Now the federal government is trying to tighten the English requirement, saying the change is needed for safety reasons... The American Trucking Association, spokesman Clayton Boyce teamed with another industry organization, the Truckload Carrier Association, in recent years in a driver recruitment campaign that included trying to bring more Hispanics into trucking amid a driver shortage... Deborah Sparks, a spokeswoman for the Truckload Carrier group, said the driver shortage has eased now, she said, but language and driver recruitment could become an issue again... "Once the economy picks up we'll have a shortage again," she said... (Photo by Gary Kazanjian/AP - Truck driver Manuel Castillo, 50, talks about a ticket he received as he sat in his truck Monday, July 7, 2008 in Fowler, Calif. Castillo was driving a truck through Alabama hauling onions and left with a $500 ticket for something he didn't think he was doing: speaking English poorly. Federal law requires that anyone with a commercial drivers license speak English well enough to talk with police. Authorities last year issued 25,230 tickets nationwide for violations)

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Jun 7, 2007

* USA - Troopers Ban Non-English Speaking Trucker

Troopers Pull Over Man Who Speaks Only Russian

Greenwood,Neb,USA -NBC6.net (Miami,FL)/Omaha TV station KETV -June 6, 2007: -- The Nebraska State Patrol stopped a truck driver who only speaks Russian, and told him he can go no further until he learns the language, reported... "Sir, I need your papers. I need your papers. All of your papers. Log book, registration, yes," a trooper said during a truck safety stop operation near Greenwood... The trucker had all his documents in order and a valid commercial driver's license, but he couldn't communicate with state troopers. Under the law, troopers were forced to make the driver park his truck and take him out of service. Troopers said they are having more and more problems with language barriers... Federal regulations said that commercial drivers should be able to read and speak the English language sufficiently to converse with the general public. But 17 states and the District of Columbia offer the commercial driver's license test in foreign languages... Nance Harris of the Nebraska Trucking Association said there's a reason some trucking companies are hiring professional drivers from out of the country. "Current estimates are that we have a shortage of about 30,000 drivers... "

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