Originally published at: Duffy’s halt of non-domiciled CDLs could wipe out illegal operators - FreightWaves
On September 26, 2025, U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy announced an emergency order requiring states to immediately stop issuing or renewing non-domiciled commercial driver’s licenses (CDLs). This directive ends a widespread practice in many states of issuing CDLs to non-citizens without employment-based visas or extending them well beyond the expiration of holders’ work visas.…
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I run the Ohio Turnpike 5 days a week pulling triples. This road should be a priority for enforcement. Several times a week I am ran off the road or forced to hit my brakes do to these foreign drivers not adhering to construction zone speed limits as well as lanes ending. They are a hazard to the motoring public. I have been driving for 30 years legally with a safe record and I have to ■■■■■ every day to keep this it has become very difficult. Enforcment is the key to solving this problem.
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" Trucking bankrupcties could surge in coming months"
How can you be a CEO and not know about spell check?
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This is not happening fast enough. Good companies doing things right are closing daily because they cannot keep up with these deadbeats undercutting the system. The government has to assess its process of issuing new MC numbers, follow up with closing old MC numbers so they cannot be sold on Facebook Marketplace, take these fake drivers off the street, close companies paying people 1099, close companies and brokers with off shore dispatch offices, fine brokers using these companies or ruling in favor of brokers liability so they think twice before using these types of companies. This is not just a DL problem. It is way more intricate than that. DOT has to go back to on site audits ASAP. The enforcement of these DL contracts, qualification files, making sure every truck is on insurance policy, making sure trucks with correct MC numbers actually exist and are parked in the yard, look at the owners/safety directors and speak to them to make sure they themselves speak English, etc.
I have been complaining about this for years and it is not only in the commercial industry. Gig work platforms like Walmart Spark, Roadie, Lyft, etc are also guilty of hiring non domiciled contractors who perform deliveries at a very low rate- undercutting the American population who depend on this income to survive! We do not have the option to move back home to our native country where the cost of living is half of what it is here!! I am so glad they have opened up pandoras box and hope they continue to vouch for the honest, hard working Americans, who are barely surviving this economic hardship, while the foreign population is thriving!!!
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