[brityank]

I got my driver's license after I'd been in Germany for a few months and only spoke about a dozen words of German. The workbook was in English as was the test.

What German company did you drive for, and what cargo did you haul?

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Thought so; there's a vast difference between getting a garden-variety passenger car license and a haulage license. Mexicans, Italians, Germans, even Brits that drive on the wrong side of the road -- all can use their home country license in the States to rent a passenger car. None of them can drive a truck or a bus.

[Marie]

Thought so;

*I* didn't drive huge semi trucks in Germany.

But my husband and many other soldiers sure did.

They had 18 year old US soldiers driving huge trucks loaded with equipment all over Germany. (So it's even worse. These kids had very little driving experience, in addition to language barrier issues.)

When we stop do these things in other countries, then we can put a stop to the practice here.