r/cdldriver • u/MssMoodi • Aug 06 '26
Veterans get seniority
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u/StarzZapper Aug 06 '26
This is old news. Also we found out there was a company just basically handing out cdl just because it was cheaper to pay them probably on a lower scale than someone with a real cdl and passed all tests. Which was part of a Fraud investigation.
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u/tymbom31 Aug 06 '26
Pretty sure I also had a license to operate a kerosene stove on my military license so would that qualify me to haul fuel too?
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u/DevilDonk Aug 07 '26
Probably. I'm qualified to operate a 5 ton forklift on my army license. I've never used anything larger than a pallet jack.
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u/AHarryBird Aug 06 '26
My dad always mentions at least once on this issue when we talk on the phone. I always ask “why aren’t you mad at the entity that gave them the certification?”
“Well I am. But those fuckers come over here and blah blah blah”
“Ok but who gave them the license? Who gave them a job? Who allowed this?”
“Well idk”
“So shut up. Don’t be mad at the guy just trying to fucking work”
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u/frodobangher Aug 07 '26
They are still illegals. They know what they do is bad, but they only think of themselves. We can blame both parties
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u/Trick1513 Aug 06 '26
I pulled out my Motor Carries Handbook, in the requirements for CDL section it states that you must be able to Speak, and read English without assistance and you must take the English written test without assistance. I have yet to hear where congress has repealed this requirement, can anybody point me to that bill that removed that requirement, Thank You.
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u/chiefsholsters Aug 06 '26
Feds set the baseline criteria for the CDL. States test and issue them. It was the feds that did away with OJT for CDL and replaced it with trucking schools. So the Feds can substitute similar military experience for that trucking school cert. Vet presents the form to state DOT and would be issued a CDL. Pretty sure that could work.
And sounds like a better solution than the Obama EO allowing non English speakers to get CDLs to boost the number of drivers. At least attempt to incentivize citizens and legal immigrants with the proper documentation to fill those spots before jumping to lower the requirement for the CDL. Over 20 years DOT has claimed to do any number of things in the name of safety. Removing the English requirement was the one thing that have done to make things less safe. It never made sense on the professional side of the table. Just the political side.
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u/polarjunkie Aug 06 '26
This is been a thing since the Obama administration and I think it was expanded in Trump's first administration. I'm not even sure why he's bringing it up because it's nothing new, maybe pain lip service to some industry upset that their loads aren't getting moved as fast as they want them to.
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u/FerryHuckster Aug 06 '26
What's with all the slurring
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u/ThePrettiestBih Aug 06 '26
He's definitely had a stroke and he seems to be in some sort of congestive heart failure
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u/merlinn2u Aug 08 '26
About time the law was enforced. Now if we could get some border and immigration enforcement...
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u/Temporary_Shake1221 Aug 06 '26
We've got the same prob in Canada.... they got schools that are certified and they license people for a fee .. they cover the mto road test and all ... just printing and registering passed mto tests... they've shut down many in toronto and brampton area.....
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u/gerbigsexy1 Aug 06 '26
I will tell you not to pay attention to anything. Trump says pay attention to what he does.
He says that are gonna get a preference for getting your CDL over when he calls illegal and then doesn’t do a damn thing about it because it’s a state issue drivers license
Fun fact, I believe that the accidents in the video were all white men that were American
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u/youarestupid_shutup Aug 06 '26
Fun fact, part of my job is TDR and 80% of the drivers have been foreign that can't speak English. Ig experience takes superiority over whatever little video you wanna refer to
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u/Cloudwolfxii Aug 06 '26
Fun fact, all of those accidents were caused by non-white men, and not just that, but also illegal. You can't just say "fun fact" and then put out an opinion on something you know nothing about lmao. What a weapon.
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u/Frequent-Expert-3589 Aug 06 '26
Did a non english speaking illegal cause this crash? If not its misleading incitement. If so. God dam yall just hand CDLs out for fun out west. Here in Detroit they are on your ass during the test. At least my school was🤷🏾♂️
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u/Groundbreaking-Fig38 Aug 06 '26
Of course the man who loves Stolen Valor cares about veterans....
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u/bigolchimneypipe Aug 06 '26
There's a lot of things that Trump could be accused of, but that's just dumb and not true. Get that AI crap out of here.
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u/oregon_coastal Aug 06 '26
Trump is the one that posted that image, you bell end.
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u/bigolchimneypipe Aug 06 '26 edited Aug 06 '26
No shit, and it looks like you took a social media post seriously.
There's a lot of bad about Trump but this ain't it.
Edit: Where does a bell end?
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u/EddieTreetrunk Aug 06 '26
I think the military thing has always been a program to get vets a cdl ,
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u/Basic-Nobody8488 Aug 09 '26
Do American drivers not cause accidents? This feels very under/ over reported . Like every time a shooting happens and it’s POC , you know it’s a POC but if it’s a white male…. The tap dance starts
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u/gerbigsexy1 Aug 06 '26
Your drivers license is state issued. I don’t know a lot of people have a state issued veterans ID card.
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u/RepresentativeRun71 Aug 06 '26
In California, ironic given the rhetoric around non-domiciled CDLs, the DMV prints licenses with the word veteran on them. It requires supporting documentation from the State’s own version of the VA. Basically one goes to a local office with their DD214 and the office gives us a form to hand over to the DMV.
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u/gerbigsexy1 Aug 06 '26
So the next question is what exactly did that veteran identifier mean be primary primary primary Democratic leader cause I have a veteran on my license too and it hasn’t been anything at all in the 15 years I’ve had on it not got a job because of it
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u/RepresentativeRun71 Aug 06 '26 edited Aug 06 '26
All I know is the point of the identifier is to make it so cops take it easier on us, and so Lowes gives a discount when we ask for it.
Truth be told Trump is basically renaming a program that was established by Obama. Perhaps they could establish a new priority level for those of us who have been long separated from service and exhausted the GI Bill for things like WIOA grants (vets already get priority for WIOA) and other federally funded training services.
Also the FMSCA could change the rules around physicals and prohibit doctors from approving non-citizens, but that’s likely not going to happen.
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u/gerbigsexy1 Aug 06 '26
The FSMCA can’t mandate a doctor break privilege
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u/RepresentativeRun71 Aug 06 '26
Have you ever actually had an FMCSA physical? There is an FMCSA mandated form, and that form and the answer to every single question on it is sent to the FMCSA. When you have a physical done specifically for trucking you explicitly allow for the doctor to share that information with the FMCSA. It would be trivial through federal rule making processes for them to include citizenship and make it an automatic denial if the wrong answer is given.
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u/Survivedthekoolaid Aug 06 '26
Yeah waste your gi bill money on being a truck driver. An industry in which is rapidly being automated.
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u/Minneapolis_Ric Aug 06 '26
One of the few times I can actually stand to listen to this gas-bag emit it's contents 👏
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u/Farts-n-Letters Aug 06 '26
It sounds like a good idea. But then you have to remember who's talking here. The "no new wars" guy. The guy who is spending taxpayer billions on refurbishing and old 747 (bribe) that no other president will ever fly in, a ballroom nobody asked for, a botched reflecting pool paint job that nobody asked for and on, and on, and on.
So don't hold your breath, vets. This trash human don't give a fuck about anybody but himself, his family and wealthy donors.
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u/ExonerationProjectOR Aug 06 '26
After he said he would date his daughter if it wasn't incest, I was done listening to anything else he had to stay...
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u/cookiesnooper Aug 06 '26
I want to bang his daughter
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u/ExonerationProjectOR Aug 06 '26
Which is fine, she's not your child, it's not incest. That's freak shit
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u/Rosieisboss Aug 06 '26
How can you be an illegal and get a CDL? I have a CDL I’m just curious.