FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 23, 2025
Washington, DC--Comes now, the SBTC to proudly announce that today, Friday, May 23rd, 2025 we, along with the Dzion family and our coalition partners, successfully effected the introduction of CONNOR'S LAW into the US House of Representatives through the Hon. Dave Taylor (R; OH) et al.
This life-saving legislation, once enacted by Congress and signed by the President into law, will codify the existing long-standing 49 CFR 391.11 English Language Proficiency Regulation into Federal law, requiring operators of CMV's requiring CDLs to be proficient in the English language. It will require law enforcement to place non-English-speaking commercial vehicle drivers found to have slipped through the CDL cracks and unable to read English highway road signs and police emergency warning signs, out-of-service in furtherance of President Trump's recent Executive Order & Secretary Duffy's order and in the interest of public safety.
This bill (attached) is named after Connor Dzion, an 18 year old college freshman, who was tragically killed by a distracted truck driver in Florida in 2017 who could not read the police emergency warning signs in English that said "Slow Down... Accident Ahead" and then slammed into Connor's car.
SBTC thanks our Connor's Law Trucking Coalition Partners:
*American Truckers United (ATU)
*National Owner Operators Association (NOOA)
*Past Time for a Change
*Professional Trucking Association Group (PTAG)
*United Coalition of American Drivers (UCAD)
*United Truckers of America (UTA)
"This is a big win for public safety, for truckers who share the road with other truck drivers, and the motoring public alike. We applaud Congressman Taylor, all co-sponsors, and the House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee for their commitment and leadership in moving forward with SBTC's proposed common sense, life-saving legislation to make the roads safe again," SBTC Executive Director James Lamb said today.
We hope you're watching from above, Connor!
PETITION: http://www.Change.org/ConnorsLaw
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