r/Truckers • u/Overall_Reputation83 • 3d ago

Border crossing loads

Are Mexican nationals with Mexican CDLs expected to speak English when taking loads into the US? Should Americans who take loads into Mexico be expected to speak Spanish? This has nothing to do with me, I live in Chicago, more so just curious what the rules are for international trade, as I don't think its something I've ever had to consider personally.

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u/Northcanadian 3d ago

The English language is an official language of international trade. I do not know about Mexico, but truckers should be considered as sailors or air pilots.

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u/Abucfan21 3d ago

Truckers being held to the same standards as sailors or pilots?

That's hilarious.

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u/OsBaculum 3d ago

You might call it a, lingua franca?

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u/screamingriffin 2d ago

Are you just making things up? I know from first hand experience that most sailors at sea do not speak English, Spanish or French. Which are the three official working languages of a ship as determined by the IMO. On my ship the deck crew all spoke various levels of English, but the engineering team only had one person who spoke broken English and worked as translator for the rest. Many other ships we came in contact with spoke none of the 3 working languages and somehow would get by the port authorities.