US EditionTransportation Department tightens noncitizen truck driver rules after fatal crash in Florida
New federal rules restrict noncitizen commercial driver’s licenses to holders of specific visas after audits found 25% of California’s licenses were improperly issued, risking $160 million in funding.
- On August 12, Harjinder Singh made an illegal U-turn on Florida's Turnpike about 50 miles north of West Palm Beach, blocking lanes and causing a crash that killed three minivan victims.
- The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's nationwide review concluded many non-domiciled commercial driver's licenses were improperly issued and linked to fatal crashes, citing weak oversight and system errors.
- The Transportation Department announced an emergency rule that pauses all states from issuing non-citizen CDLs until they comply with new standards, narrowing eligibility to visa holders and requiring SAVE checks.
- The Transportation Department gave California 30 days to audit and fix its program or risk losing roughly $160 million in federal highway funds, the FMCSA warned.
- While officials tighten rules, they note that roughly 190,000 non-citizen CDL holders will keep licenses until renewal, amid political clashes involving President Donald Trump, Secretary Sean Duffy, and California Gov. Gavin Newsom.
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Trump Admin Takes 'Emergency Action' to Limit Migrants' Eligibility for Commercial Driver’s Licenses - The Virginia Star
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy on Friday announced new rules for issuing commercial driver's licenses that seek to make it more difficult for migrants to acquire the licenses.
By Aaron Cooper, CNN The Department of Transportation is imposing new limits to “drastically restrict” people from outside the United States from obtaining commercial driver’s licenses, and is threatening to withhold highway funding from states that don’t comply. “The process for issuing these licenses is absolutely, 100%, broken,” Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said at a news conference Friday. “It has become a threat to public safety and …
By Aaron Cooper, CNN The Department of Transportation is imposing new limits to “drastically restrict” people from outside the United States from obtaining commercial driver’s licenses, and is threatening to withhold highway funding from states that don’t comply. “The process for issuing these licenses is absolutely, 100%, broken,” Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said at a news conference Friday. “It has become a threat to public safety and …
Trump Admin Restricts Immigrants’ Access to Commercial Driver’s Licenses.
PULSE POINTSWHAT HAPPENED: Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced new rules to tighten requirements for issuing commercial driver’s licenses, aiming to restrict access for migrants.WHO WAS INVOLVED: Sean Duffy, the Transportation Department (DOT), and states such as California, Colorado, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Texas, and Washington.WHEN & WHERE: The new rule was announced on Friday and is effective immediately across the United State…
New DoT rule changes who’s eligible for a commercial driver’s license
Following a nationwide audit on trucking licenses and a series of deadly crashes involving large trucks, the Department of Transportation is issuing an emergency interim final rule changing how states issue Commercial Driver’s Licenses (CDL’s) to those from outside the U.S.
I-35 pileup crash in Austin cited in new emergency rule on truck driver licensing
AUSTIN (KXAN) -- U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy, during a Friday announcement on restrictions to who is eligible for trucking licenses, referenced a deadly pileup crash that happened on Interstate 35 in Austin earlier this year. According to the Associated Press, Duffy's announcement called for emergency action to drastically restricts who is eligible for a non-domiciled commercial learner’s permits (CLPs) and commercial driver’s l…
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