REP. BRIAN MAST: I want unsafe truckers off our highways — and America's veterans in their seats
One year ago this week, three Floridians senselessly lost their lives on Florida’s Turnpike near Fort Pierce due to the complete and utter recklessness of a If you are a foreign national driving a commercial truck in America, you should have to meet the same basic safety requirements as everyone else." truck driver with an illegal CDL license.Three people died for doing nothing more than simply driving down the highway when a tractor-trailer driver made an illegal U-turn through an access point, cutting across traffic and leaving an approaching minivan with nowhere to go.Their families will carry that loss for the rest of their lives.ILLEGAL ALIEN FAILED CDL TEST 10 TIMES IN 2 MONTHS BEFORE FATAL FLORIDA CRASH THAT KILLED 3We cannot bring those Americans back. But we can decide who drives on our highways and whether their senseless deaths are going to be another tragedy we forget—or a warning that finally forces us to fix a broken system.I choose the latter.America should not lower our standards to accommodate foreign nationals who cannot meet basic commercial-driving requirements.
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One year ago this week, three Floridians senselessly lost their lives on Florida’s Turnpike near Fort Pierce due to the complete and utter recklessness of a If you are a foreign national driving a commercial truck in America, you should have to meet the same basic safety requirements as everyone else." truck driver with an illegal CDL license.Three people died for doing nothing more than simply driving down the highway when a tractor-trailer driver made an illegal U-turn through an access point, cutting across traffic and leaving an approaching minivan with nowhere to go.Their families will carry that loss for the rest of their lives.ILLEGAL ALIEN FAILED CDL TEST 10 TIMES IN 2 MONTHS BEFORE FATAL FLORIDA CRASH THAT KILLED 3We cannot bring those Americans back. But we can decide who drives on our highways and whether their senseless deaths are going to be another tragedy we forget—or a warning that finally forces us to fix a broken system.I choose the latter.America should not lower our standards to accommodate foreign nationals who cannot meet basic commercial-driving requirements. Shortsighted state policies and lax federal oversight, like California issuing Non-Domiciled CDLs without rigorous verification of legal work status or language skills, are endangering each and every American citizen.And this doesn’t have to be the case. We have the best trained drivers in the world.
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- One year ago this week, three Floridians senselessly lost their lives on Florida’s Turnpike near Fort Pierce due to the complete and utter recklessness of a If you are a foreign national driving a commercial truck in America, you should have to meet the same basic safety requirements as everyone else." truck driver with an illegal CDL license.Three people died for doing nothing more than simply driving down the highway when a tractor-trailer driver made an illegal U-turn through an access point, cutting across traffic and leaving an approaching minivan with nowhere to go.Their families will carry that loss for the rest of their lives.ILLEGAL ALIEN FAILED CDL TEST 10 TIMES IN 2 MONTHS BEFORE FATAL FLORIDA CRASH THAT KILLED 3We cannot bring those Americans back. But we can decide who drives on our highways and whether their senseless deaths are going to be another tragedy we forget—or a warning that finally forces us to fix a broken system.I choose the latter.America should not lower our standards to accommodate foreign nationals who cannot meet basic commercial-driving requirements.
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