No, make that for truckers REQUIRED to pass an English language READING and writing test before being allowed to drive commercial transport vehicles on Texas roads. Anyone have a problem with that? I Googled my *** off trying to find out who has proposed this bill, after hearing a snippet of the story on the six o'clock news - no luck - so far. I did hear that LULAC immediately jumped on it like white on rice though, as discriminatory. Well Jesus, when some broken English speaking trucker blows by a detailed digital warning/instruction sign on a Southwest(59)Freeway in Sugarland, without a clue of what it warns of, and five minutes later, runs down your son/daughter on a night crew, trying to make the road safer for the likes of you to negotiate every day, please try to remember that you picked the wrong battle to jump into. This isn't a case of discrimination. This is a case of a legislator seeing a problem and going out on a limb, knowing you are laying in wait to pounce. I predict we will hear more on this, and I am for it becoming law, even if it is just a required test to show that they comprehend in Spanish, what signs posted in English are saying.

Mrs. Childress taught me what bass, tenor, and soprano were when I sang in UIL ensembles in competitions......oh, yeah, I forgot alto - I learned that on my own, and I recognize it when I'm driving between Valladolid and Puerto Juarez, and I obey the sign. Unfortunately, north of Victoria, the signs are a bit more detailed and sometimes digital and subject to change messages on a moment's notice(welcome to Gringo technology). Learn the language, or change drivers at Piedras Negras. And don't even start with me on asking for additional Spanish language signs........or I, Mike Austin will lobby my state legislator to sponsor a bill to authorize Kinky Friedman to lead an effort to invade Mexico and annex your homeland, and change all of your signs to the language that the tourists who feed your economy can understand.

Hey, no hard feelings.....hell, my great, great grand father was Mexican for a while before he and his fellow Texicans got tired of the way Mexican politics were headed. (BTW - we won). I just would like an even playing field when I am coming into Houston from the west, and that flashing sign warns of an overturned moving van, but fails to mention that it is loaded with illegals from points south. Do you want to be the one to rip through it because of a language barrier?