Posted on 08/25/2025 10:06:09 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced that the state will take action to crack down on “illegal aliens who may be operating large trucks using out-of-state driver’s licenses.”
On Monday, August 25, 2025, Uthmeier announced a series of actions targeting the commercial trucking industry and commercial driver’s licensing (CDL) standards amid ongoing public scrutiny of an August 12 triple fatality crash on the Florida Turnpike allegedly caused by an illegal U-turn taken by Harjinder Singh.
Ag Enforcement Officers To Man CMV Interdiction Stations Under ICE Direction
Uthmeier and other law enforcement agencies announced that Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (FDACS) agents will be “stationing at interdiction checkpoints to work together with federal and state partners on immigration enforcement and checking for English proficiency for commercial drivers while continuing agricultural inspections.”
Officials say that “these interdiction stations, which are distinct from Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) weigh stations, will serve as critical enforcement points to stop human smuggling, fraudulent documents, and unsafe commercial vehicles.”
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Can be done at every weight station
Easy peasy
winning.
The “checkpoint” should be bars across roadways with signs detailing the height written in cursive English (no numbers). The drivers who can’t read cursive English will quickly find out their truck was too tall for the barrier.
Yep. Pull them all in and have a DOT officer waiting as they roll across the scale.
There should be the same on I-95 in Virginia.
Terrifying is the only word for a girl, and I mean girl trying to steer an 18 wheeler in the middle lane of I-95 out of DC four weeks ago.
No one could pass on either side because she could not keep the rig from encourching lane to lane. When I finally passed on the left lane, I could see a POC, very small young female with her forearms on the steering wheel trying to control the rig.
This is enough.
How about EVERY weigh station?
How quick before an Obama/Biden judge enjoins this?
Supplement the this action with Federal legislation that a driver’s license requires proficiency in the English language. It is unconscionable to have person operating 4,000 - 80,000 missiles (cars and trucks) that are incapable of reading road signs.
Have a DOT/ICE officer...
Many trucks have electronic scales on them with transponders that allow them to bypass scales, so not every truck rolls onto the scales.
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and the companies that hire them or are these companies run by Illegals ?
The government should be able to confiscate these entire semi and its load.
This will be fun to watch.
Didn’t know we still had weigh stations. I might have seen one open in all my many years. To be sure, illegals would be the first ones to run them especially those from CA who can’t read English.
You can bet every weigh station is already checking this now. This is in addition to the weigh stations.
Loads already can be impounded if you fail at the weigh station.
Thumbs up for Florida MAGA.
For the English test I would give them a poem maybe Lord Byron or even Keats and ask them for an explication de texte.
in colorado, the leftist Democrat government would say, “Oh well, it was just three who were killed.” ...
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