EXCLUSIVE: Cameras capture truckers unable to read road signs, answer basic questions during Florida crackdown

EXCLUSIVE: Fox News cameras were embedded with national information officials successful North Florida, wherever a ride-along captured troubling encounters with motortruck drivers who couldn’t work roadworthy signs oregon pass successful English.

Shocking video showed investigators taking galore truckers retired of work for information violations, with immoderate drivers incapable to work basal roadworthy signs oregon pass successful English.

During 1 encounter, a Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) trooper asked a trucker however good helium spoke English, to which helium replied successful Spanish.

When asked if the trucker could talk immoderate English, helium replied, "No."

A Florida Highway Patrol trooper gives an unidentified motortruck operator an English and information trial astatine a motortruck halt alongside the freeway. (Fox News Channel)

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Troopers said that up to fractional of truckers astatine immoderate Florida weigh stations cannot conscionable English proficiency requirements.

"I effort to ore connected the [signs] they person to read," said FHP maestro trooper Craig Lents. "If you are going down the roadworthy astatine 70 miles per hour, and you spot that sign, you lone spot it for a divided second."

In different brushwood caught connected video, a trooper asked a trucker what a roadworthy motion meant.

Alexis McAdams and Derek Barrs, the head of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, successful a constabulary conveyance during an exclusive ride-along. (Fox News Channel)

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The trucker replied, "No."

The trooper past asked what drivers should bash if they saw the sign, to which the trucker replied, "No," again.

Under the Trump administration, Department of Transportation (DOT) officials are ramping up enforcement of national English requirements that person been connected the books for years.

"It's been the instrumentality for a agelong play of time," said Derek Barrs, Federal Motor Carrier Safety administrator. "It's a information issue. … If determination was a clang oregon thing similar that, I would privation to marque definite that operator would cognize however to respond — dilatory down for upcoming postulation oregon a clang that has happened up ahead."

A Florida Highway Patrol trooper inspects a motortruck connected the highway.  (Fox News Channel)

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Authorities explained that being incapable to talk oregon work English is highly dangerous, arsenic truckers are driving by important roadworthy signs astatine precocious speeds portion carrying hundreds of tons.

The enforcement propulsion comes aft a drawstring of deadly crashes nationwide involving drivers the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) claims were successful the U.S. illegally oregon operating with commercialized drivers' licenses (CDLs) they should ne'er person had.

In a Florida case, Harjinder Singh, an amerciable migrant from India, was charged successful a tractor-trailer clang that near 3 radical dead.

Composite representation shows firefighters responding to a fatal Florida clang linked to Harjinder Singh’s truck. A bodycam inactive of Singh, right, being cited for speeding successful New Mexico connected July 3, 2025. (St. Lucie County Sheriff's Office; New Mexico State Police bodycam)

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The tractor-trailer, driven by Singh, allegedly made an amerciable U-turn connected the Florida Turnpike done an "Official Use Only" entree constituent successful St. Lucie County, blocking each lanes of the road and starring to the crash.

His brother, Harneet Singh, 25, besides an amerciable migrant from India, was riding arsenic a rider astatine the clip of the crash.

Harjinder Singh, who allegedly entered the U.S. illegally and obtained a CDL successful California, is facing 3 counts of vehicular homicide, according to officials.

ICE lodged an migration detainer against amerciable migrant Rajinder Kumar, who is allegedly down a fatal clang that killed two.  (Reuters; Department of Homeland Security)

In an Oregon case, different amerciable migrant from India, Rajinder Kumar, allegedly jackknifed his tractor-trailer, blocking some lanes of U.S. Highway 20.

A Subaru Outback crashed into the truck, sidesplitting some the driver, William Micah Carter, and passenger, Jennifer Lynn Lower, according to DHS.

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Kumar, who allegedly entered the U.S. illegally adjacent Lukeville, Arizona, was issued a CDL successful California, officials said. 

He is charged with criminally negligent homicide and reckless endangering.