Posted on 09/27/2025 12:37:03 PM PDT by xxqqzz
CENTRAL VALLEY, Calif. (KFSN) -- The Trump administration launched its latest crackdown on Friday by tightening the rules for commercial truck drivers nationwide.
"The process for issuing these licenses is absolutely, 100 percent broken," Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said.
He went on to single out California, as the Department of Transportation blocks non-citizens from obtaining CDLs.
"California gave (one driver) a CDL with endorsements to drive a passenger bus and a school bus that was valid for months after his legal presence in the U.S. had expired," Secretary Duffy said.
Non-citizens will now need an employment-based visa and must undergo a mandatory federal immigration status check.
The Secretary gave the California DMV 30 days to comply, or risk losing federal highway funds.
"It's yet to be seen how big of an impact it's going to be, but I think it's going to make a huge, maybe 20 percent or 25 percent, of our industry," Everett Yockey at the Advanced Career Institute in Fresno said. "We'll wait and see."
The Valley is home to thousands of truck drivers.
"I think it's going to impact the Punjabi community most," Yockey said. "Many of them sponsor and bring people here. Part of the Punjabi community is giving back."
Some drivers Action News spoke with in Madera said the new rules are harsh, telling us off camera that there are too many regulations as they try to work.
"Everything goes by truck," Yockey said. "Everything from groceries to lumber to hard goods. Anything that we have, that we buy, comes by truck."
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The problem with this is?
Oh, because these are male dominated well paying jobs that do not require a degree to do and we just can not have those available to American men?
I see.
Oh noes!
Anyways..... how about those Mets?
Well-paying? When did that change? I stopped driving in 2020.
I live in the Central Valley. This is a good thing.
The CDL-A test is already hard as hell so I don’t know how these dirka dirkas are passing
The old El Bribe, My FRiend.
“I think it’s going to impact the Punjabi community most,”
That is well paying.
Those that live on the road, couples, can make $`150k.
“ Like the guy who killed three in Florida?”
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And didn’t show the slightest hint of caring about those deaths. Yeah…. like him.
Those that live on the road, couples, can make $`150k.
Many, many moons ago, I worked at a private, for-profit vocational school that taught many jobs, including the CDL - 18 wheelers. We found a former auto dealership site with all kinds of room to practice the basics before ever going out on a public road. All of the students had to be citizens, or legal permanent residents. Many were Hispanic. Back then, there were several written tests that you had to pass to obtain your CDL. Only one was mandatory in English, the Hazardous Materials test.
To qualify for the training, you also had to provide a clean DMV record printout.
I do not know today what the status is on all this.
The three that were killed were from Haiti here under a temporary protection status. Still the jeet didn’t show any remorse for breaking a slew of state and federal laws. Prison time first then deportation with mandatory more federal prison time if he ever returns to USA sovereign soil. You are banned from ever setting foot here again under penalty of club fed time.
In Texas is fairly easy to get a Class B CDL with the P enforcement for passengers above 16. Get a DOT med cert, apply at DPS for CLP (learners permit) ,enroll in basic skills classes, take the behind the wheel test with the trooper riding shotgun.
At university all of the TA’s and some Profs had B ratings so we could drive the motor coaches to the field for geology field camp. The B CDL also lets you drive any vocational truck like a dumper or hard tail tanker. Any class 8 of 26,001lb or higher as a single vehicle. Not articulated with a trailer over 10,000lb or 20,000lb if agricultural registered trailer. Pretty much any firetruck, bobtail,refuse hauler, cement truck, cement pumper truck...et al.
The local VFD also jumped at bringing anyone with a B licence on specifically to drive the pumper trucks and ladder trucks.
Sucks in Texas if you hold a CDL you cannot dismiss a violation with driver’s education nor can you ever refuse to provide a blood sample even when operating uour POV you wauved those privileges to be granted your CDL.
Good grief, another victim group.
And so what? That doesn't exempt them from obeying the law.
Some drivers Action News spoke with in Madera said the new rules are harsh, telling us off camera that there are too many regulations as they try to work.
Cry me a river.
"Everything goes by truck," Yockey said. "Everything from groceries to lumber to hard goods. Anything that we have, that we buy, comes by truck."
No kidding.
So comply like white, American citizens are required to. They manage. Everyone else can, too.
Part of the Punjabi community is giving back.
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Which we saw in the crash in Florida recently. /s
Bribe? Did you mean to say "baksheesh"?
Good. You can’t trust blue shitholes. You have to federalize this.
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