Originally published at: DOT shuts down 110 truck driving schools in CDL fraud crackdown - FreightWaves
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced a new federal crackdown Monday targeting commercial driver training schools, CDL skills testers and trucking businesses suspected of fraud.
They need to look at the nschools in North Jersey and New York City. These drivers cannot speak or read and cannot pass a simple road test.
2003 - From the same agency:
SUMMARY:
The FMCSA withdraws its advance notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPRM) requesting comments on potential changes to a provision in the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations (FMCSRs) involving the English language. That provision requires that drivers of commercial motor vehicles (CMVs) operating in interstate commerce be able to “read and speak the English language sufficiently to converse with the general public, understand highway traffic signs and signals, respond to official inquiries, and make entries on reports and records.” After analysis and review of the comments, FMCSA has concluded that at this time there is no quantifiable data on which to propose modifying the regulation to require a more stringent or definitive standard, or to require State motor vehicle agencies to administer a specific test for English proficiency.
Notice that the agency is not admitting it’s own faults in this process. Federal laws were on the books preventing discrimination for language. This should have been stopped when CDL Learner Permits were issued at the DMV. Then the issue would not have to be decided at a third party test site - that by the way is wide open to discrimination suits based on established federal law. Instead let’s screw the thing up and then point fingers at the States and testers.