Originally published at: Duffy Pulls the Trigger on Defunding California over Non-Domiciled CDL Crisis - FreightWaves
California’s years of documented CDL fraud, enforcement failures, and defiance of federal regulations finally caught up with it. Today’s $160 million funding cut for non-domiciled CDL violations, combined with October’s $40 million ELP penalty, marks the largest federal enforcement action against a state licensing program in FMCSA history.
More self-defeating grandstanding about safety while undercutting ability to actually make progress on safety? When will they actually work on safety rather than using supposed safety arguments as a subservient tool of their discriminatory practices?