JEET NEWS
Wish I had more jeet news, unfortunately all I got is this.
Derek Barrs (Administrator of the FMCSA) defends FMCSA's bold moves at TCA.
For those that don't speak government alphabet soup. FMCSA is Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.
TCA is Truckload Carriers Association, not government but still alphabet soup.
This boy Derek Barrs received a "standing ovation" after completing his address to TCA. Some of the key points mentioned in the speech is the following.
“I think that’s the first time in history I have ever heard a President talk about this industry at the State of the Union address, It spoke directly to something that we all understand, or we should understand, that your CDL actually should mean something, and it shouldn’t be just because I went through a fly-by-night training school, and I went and got a job at some fly- by-night company.”
Barrs state the following about English-language requirements that it is necessary for the following:
“the ability to read road signs, understand safety instructions and communicate effectively.”
During his speech, Barrs spoke about the federal government push that has resulted in what he said was the closure of 7,000 training schools.
“To be honest with you, I would just as soon as we go through and just clear all of them out and start all over again, We have a systematic problem here that we have to work through to ensure that we are putting the right drivers behind the wheel of commercial motor vehicles who want to do it right and not circumvent the system."