The Humboldt Broncos hockey team's bus collided with a semi-truck, killing 16 people and injuring 13 others. A Brampton truck driver has been sentenced for careless driving. They're coming through as TFWs, LMIAs, foreign truck drivers who appear to not know what they're doing.
00:04:36.340This man regularly posts videos of these exhilarating journeys,
00:04:40.260as they've become a form of entertainment.
00:04:43.160The drivers are encouraged by the passengers to go ever faster.
00:04:50.460Thankfully, the Trump administration isn't playing games with this issue.
00:04:54.540They've now made it mandatory for truckers to actually speak English for a change,
00:04:59.900if they want to get behind the wheel, that is.
00:05:02.000And they also need to be American or at least have a green card,0.94
00:05:04.720which means that many of these temporary visa holders and even illegal immigrants
00:05:10.260longer be able to obtain a cdl in the country who can make the justification that somebody should be
00:05:16.260driving a truck that doesn't speak english can't communicate with law enforcement can't read signs
00:05:21.780and put people in danger who can justify that well i don't know gavin newsom seems to think
00:05:27.060that he can but again it is these big 18 wheelers that we see in our roadways but these are drivers
00:05:31.700who can drive your school bus as well take your kids to school right they don't speak the language
00:05:36.420And again, when they can't understand signs, we saw the the infamous crash down in Florida where a truck driver was doing a U-turn on a four lane highway.
00:05:47.100It's that's insanity. But these are the kind of risks that some of these drivers take when they don't understand the rules.
00:05:52.720They don't understand our culture, but they also don't understand if a crash happens, how to communicate with law enforcement.
00:05:58.580And so we're going to take all the actions we can in this administration to keep people safe.
00:06:03.160Again, Gavin Newsom may not care about safety, but I'm going to do all I can to make sure
00:06:07.700that I prevent the next cataclysmic accident that takes someone's life.
00:06:11.720And if that's taking money away from Gavin Newsom, that's exactly what we're going to do.
00:06:15.020Last week, Bhavik Sharma went to the DMV to renew his trucking license, but he was denying.
00:06:19.700The problem? New rules surrounding the process.
00:06:26.780As he explains in Hindi, only green card holders and U.S. citizens can get their commercial driver's
00:06:32.040license renewed good charm has been in the u.s legally for the past 10 years seeking political
00:06:37.020asylum his final court case is next year he's been driving a truck for the past eight years
00:06:41.980but now he can't so this guy's been in the united states for 10 freaking years a decade and he can't0.99
00:06:50.400speak enough english to have a basic conversation and we're supposed to trust him with a multi-ton
00:06:55.500heavy-duty equipment to drive it on our roadways safely when he probably can't even read the signs
00:07:03.660you can't make this stuff up and he's been in the united states again it's not like he just got
00:07:08.820there although you should speak english if you're gonna go if you're gonna go to the united states
00:07:13.340to drive a truck you should speak the language but it's not like he just got there like he's got
00:07:18.560that excuse of like you know what i just got here i'm still learning give me some time he's been in
00:07:22.800country for 10 years you're not gonna it just doesn't care he's been driving a truck for 10
00:07:30.320for eight years and he still doesn't speak the language that's insane
00:07:37.680when asked what comes next he says he's worried trucking paid well the sudden stop and income
00:07:43.040should have learned english money to send back to his family in india now he will have to start over
00:07:47.760The U.S. Department of Transportation issued emergency rules that require the DMV to stop issuing commercial driver's licenses, or CDLs, to drivers who are not U.S. citizens or permanent residents.
00:08:00.860Even those with legal work visas, like Sharma, will be denied.
00:08:04.540The DOT report says the driver was tested and he could not identify three or four road signs.
00:08:10.140They did an English test and he failed abysmal, not even close, but how ridiculous is it that somebody would get a commercial driver's license who doesn't understand the language of this country?
00:08:22.060Look, man, what it comes down to is road safety. There have been way too many accidents, way too many avoidable deaths that continue to occur in North America. They just keep happening. And a big portion of those is because there are people who have a license who shouldn't be behind the wheel to begin with. They shouldn't be licensed. They should have never got one. Many of them get a license illegally.
00:08:45.500So this is why this is happening. This is why the Trump administration is cracking down on it,
00:08:51.520just like they're cracking down on it here in Alberta.
00:08:54.140The province is intervening on dangerous commercial truck driving practices after
00:08:57.880Transportation Minister Devin Dreschen said a series of investigations, inspections and audits
00:09:03.700over the past six months uncovered fraudulent behavior in the industry. Now the government
00:09:08.460says they've shut down five of the schools so far, revoked the licenses from 12 instructors,
00:09:13.820issued dozens of warnings and levied more than $100,000 in fines.
00:09:18.980Thirteen commercial trucking companies have also been removed from Alberta's roads
00:09:22.900due to poor on-road performance, unsafe equipment, or failure to meet mandatory safety standards.
00:09:29.020The province says it's now working with the federal government to address industry safety concerns,
00:09:33.500while the Canadian Council of Motor Transport Administrators is also developing a national database
00:09:38.780to address the loophole that carriers currently use to exploit gaps in interprovincial data sharing and enforcement.