Originally published at: Lawmaker wants English test for ride-share drivers - FreightWaves
Legislation to mandate English proficiency for drivers on federal ride-share contracts mirrors new trucking rules and threatens companies like Uber with a five-year ban.
When pullovers find every 6th truck with a brakes OOS but the highest citation rate state of Wyoming can only find ~5% ELP violations, what are we really taking about? “Safety”??
And since when were our yellow taxis chauffeured by Ivy League English literature majors? T’aint ever been the case that I’ve seen. Are we surprised a shifting business model hasn’t transformed the underlying labor pool?