Originally published at: Lawsuit Targets California DMV Over Administrative Failures Affecting 20,000 CDL Drivers - FreightWaves
A class-action lawsuit filed in Alameda County seeks to block California’s Jan. 5 cancellation of nearly 20,000 commercial driver’s licenses. The plaintiffs argue the DMV is punishing immigrant drivers for the agency’s own administrative failures while refusing to let them reapply for corrected credentials, violating state law and due process.
“…filling positions as American truckers aged out of the workforce. Between 2017 and 2018 alone, 30,000 Sikhs joined the U.S. trucking industry. …”
Not the case, they have destroyed rates by ignoring the hours of service rules and working far beyond 70 hours every 8 days.
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Why is OIIDA so against ELD? This isn’t some
‘Firinur thing to want to work as much as possible (or know someone like yourself to have been caught actually doing so)? Why the conflation of hours of service with country of origin?
The whole excuse of escaping persecution is a whole load of BS when the Sikhs have their own state in India and ruled by their co-religionists. It’s purely economic with a cottage industry shipping people all over the world. Why Punjab’s Youth Are Migrating Abroad: Economic Crisis and Social Pressures - Frontline