A Department of Transportation (DOT) review found that 44 percent of the nation’s approximately 16,000 truck driving schools may not comply with government licensure requirements and could be forced to close.
“This administration is cracking down on every link in the illegal trucking chain. Under [President] Joe Biden and [former Transportation Secretary] Pete Buttigieg, bad actors were able to game the system and let unqualified drivers flood our roadways. Their negligence endangered every family on America’s roadways, and it ends today,” Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said in a Dec. 1 statement.
The DOT said 3,000 commercial driver license training providers have been removed from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s Training Provider Registry due to the violations. An additional 4,500 training providers were put on notice for possible noncompliance….