Originally published at: The Non-Domiciled CDL Crackdown Has Arrived - 13,000 Drivers Out, a National Rule A Few Days Away - FreightWaves
The deadline everyone in trucking has been watching finally arrived. On March 6, 2026, approximately 13,000 non-domiciled commercial driver’s licenses were cancelled in California — not by a clean resolution, not by a negotiated agreement between the state and federal government, but by California bowing under the weight of a funding threat it had already…
North American Punjabi Trucking Association CEO Raman Dhillon says "the rates are going to rise " like that’s a terrible thing. Thats great news for the American English speaking trucker. One who has a mortgage and trying to keep up with the rising cost of living and not living in his truck with 4 drivers sending his money back home to another country
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Your being g disingenuous to your readers to blame this on anything BUT immigration. The problem started during the Obama administration. It was confounded tenfold during the Biden administration. Anyone and everyone was allowed to cross the border. These folks were then paroled into the country and given a work authorization document. This document was then used to illegally obtain a CDL. These foreign low wage earners were NEVER entitled to be issued a cdl. It was a loophole that was used to the absolute decimation of this industry. From rates, to insurance cost, to saftey. You name it. This is the best thing to happen to our industry in a very long time. Re-train these folks for jobs in your sector. Freight analytics, transportation topic reporting. I am sure you have room for 200,000 foreign low wage earners in your sector. We don’t mind. Thank you Secretary Duffy for finally putting American drivers and American Companies FIRST. Not behind all this other garbage.
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Exactly 100% correct Ronald, most of the non-domiciled drivers cannot speak or read english, and don’t have any basic knowledge of the skillset it takes to drive an eighteen wheeler, hence all the deadly accidents here in the U.S. Too boot, the fly by night C.D.L. truck mills don’t give these drivers even the basic tools to drive safely. They just pencil whip their C.D.L’s and let them go out and kill people. Thank goodness we have an administration that is now holding these drivers, states, and companies accountable.
Only english proficient legal U.S. citizens that can proficiently pass the permit tests and train with a bonified school or trucking company and pass a driving test in all phases should possess a Class -A- C.D.L. The author of this article and this website are being disingenuous and are lying to the readers. They are boohooing that a foreigner can’t drive. Waaaa, tell that to the people and their families that have been killed by these ill gotten foreign drivers.