Originally published at: Withholding $40 Million for ELP Noncompliance: What Precedent Is This Setting? - FreightWaves
Recently, the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) announced it would withhold approximately $40.7 million in federal grant funding from the state of California, citing that it failed to enforce the federal English Language Proficiency (ELP) requirement for commercial drivers. That move is deeper than headline politics. For the trucking industry — especially small carriers and…
Is this going to have enduring brass tacks effect far beyond just the news cycle’s “Own the Libs” clicks and views? Especially once ELP loses its novelty and they move on to a fresh set of disruptive things like transportation dollars withheld for pollution exceedances this EPA both enforces and actively precludes progress on?