US EditionTransportation Department tightens noncitizen truck driver rules after fatal crash in Florida
New emergency rules restrict noncitizen commercial driver licenses to holders of specific visas, with California facing a potential $160 million funding cut for widespread noncompliance, officials said.
- The US Transportation Department will tighten requirements for non-citizens to get commercial drivers licenses after fatal crashes caused by immigrant truck drivers who should not have received licenses.
- California may lose $160 million in federal funding because one in four of the 145 non-citizen commercial licenses reviewed were improperly issued.
- A truck driver charged with vehicular homicide and immigration violations after a fatal crash in Florida was found to be in the country illegally.
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Transportation Department Tightens Rules on ‘Non-Domiciled’ Commercial Driver’s Licenses
Department of Transportation (DOT) Secretary Sean Duffy on Sept. 26 announced an emergency action to restrict the eligibility of foreign-domiciled drivers to obtain commercial driver’s licenses and learner’s permits, following a spate of fatal big-rig crashes on U.S. roadways by truckers who aren’t legal American residents. The ruling was designed to strengthen regulatory oversight on the way states issue commercial driver’s licenses, the Federa…
Truck drivers from outside the US face new license restrictions as DOT threatens to withhold money from California
By Aaron Cooper, CNN (CNN) — The Department of Transportation is imposing new limits to “drastically restrict” people from outside the United States from getting commercial driver’s licenses, and is threatening to withhold highway funds from states that don’t agree to comply. “The process for issuing these licenses is absolutely, 100%, broken,” Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Friday in a news conference. “It has become a threat to publi…
Duffy says states must withdraw commercial driver licenses from foreigners who overstay visas
The Transportation Department will immediately tighten up the requirements for noncitizens to get commercial drivers' licenses after three fatal crashes this year that officials say were caused by immigrant truck drivers who never should have received licenses.
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Transportation Department tightens noncitizen truck driver rules after fatal crash in Florida
The Transportation Department will immediately tighten up the requirements for non-citizens to get commercial drivers licenses after three fatal crashes this year in Florida, Texas and Alabama that officials say were caused by immigrant truck drivers who never should have…
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy Releases Stunning Details Involving Nationwide Abuse In Issuing Commercial Drivers' Licenses to Illegals - Issues a New Emergency Rule to Address Crisis
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is taking major action after revealing an abuse of commercial driving licenses by states that goes beyond anyone’s imnagination.
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