I was coming back to the story to post the same thing. How would he keep his log books up too? Doesn’t excuse what happened to him though.
Log books? If the driver is within a hundred miles of his home base he doesn’t need to fill out a log book.
There’s probably no requirement that the logs be in English, and except for a few road signs, the CCL exam was probably administered in Russian or Ukrainian (in Chicago you can take it in several different languages, Spanish, Polish, Russian and even Chinese, I believe).