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The roads just got safer in Oklahoma. On Monday, Republican Governor of Oklahoma Kevin Stitt announced 130 illegal immigrant truck divers were arrested in a state wide sting. Stitt announced the Oklahoma Highway Patrol alongside ICE arrested the illegal commercial truck drivers on I-40 in Western Oklahoma. The majority of the drivers were using licenses issued from Democrat states and stemmed from multiple countries such as India, China, Russia Turkey, and Ukraine. Many of the CDLs given out from sanctuary states lacked basic information and Governor Stitt revealed one in particular had written “No Name Given” where the driver’s name...

maybe danielle 💻🚛🇺🇸 @maybedanielleee The number of trucking companies and CDLs issued without a full legal name is truly absurd. I've been talking about this for months.

A major shift in trucking safety rules is underway and it could change how California truck accident cases are fought and won. The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) and the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) have announced an emergency CDL new law restricting who can hold a commercial driver’s license (CDL) if they are not U.S. citizens or permanent residents. These changes came after multiple deadly crashes and a federal audit that found California issued thousands of licenses in violation of safety standards. For anyone hurt in a truck crash, this isn’t just a policy update. It’s new legal...

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...

The Duval County Sheriff's Office, Jacksonville, Florida, busted five people who cheated on their commercial driver's license exams using hidden cameras and earpieces.

First Coast News shows how people in Jacksonville cheat to get licensed to drive trucks, which inevitably causes fatal crashes.

Harjinder Singh needed a translator in court. He doesn’t know how to read English road signs. California gave him a commercial driver’s license. He made an illegal U-turn and killed 3 people in another vehicle. News article: https://www.abc10.com/article/news/crime/stockton-truck-driver-will-be-extradited-deadly-florida-crash/103-93629d11-a9a6-472e-abd7-3f18e66b405dVideo: https://x.com/Anc_Aesthetics/status/1956975173980016836

The Indian immigrant truck driver accused of killing three people in a crash when he made an illegal U-turn across a Florida highway badly flunked English fluency and road sign tests following the smash-up, the US Department of Transportation revealed. Harjinder Singh answered just two of 12 questions correctly when being tested for English language proficiency by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration after the April 12 crash. And when asked to read highway signs and their meanings, Singh could only identify one out of four signs shown to him, the US Department of Transportation (DOT) announced Tuesday. Despite these...

California Governor Gavin Newsom’s press office is under fire after claiming that under the first Trump administration, illegal immigrant Harjinder Singh, who has been charged with vehicular manslaughter after making a U-turn on a Florida highway, was granted a work authorization. Newsom’s press office wrote on Monday, "Hey, Commander Cosplay: the federal government (YOU) already confirmed that this guy meets federal and state immigration requirements -- YOU issued him a work permit (EAD). Oops. As usual, you are either lying or clueless." ...... DHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs Tricia McLaughlin wrote in response to Newsom’s press office, "False. Harjinder...

In your opinion, what is the purpose of giving a commercial driver’s license to someone who can’t read or speak English, and thus, can’t read road signs? In my opinion, the only reason to do this is because it makes people feel morally superior. It is a form of virtue signalling. And the people who support doing this have zero concern for the innocent people who get killed by these unqualified drivers.What is your opinion?This graphic video from Las Vegas shows a guy named Claude Rafiki driving his truck the wrong way, and killing 3 innocent people:https://x.com/Tomhennessey69/status/1793141608713691356Let’s check in on...

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“The public is vastly unaware that our highways are completely over run right now with truck drivers operating on Foreign Commercial Drivers Licenses and what are now called Non-Domicile CDL’s."

But what’s going on today that’s even a bigger problem is the issuance of U.S. commercial driver’s licenses called non-domicile CDLs to noncitizens. That just started in 2021 under what’s called the Biden-Harris trucking action plan. And so we actually have non-citizens, just similar to what you saw those reporting on recently. Yeah, hey, we found out these guys are getting EAD (employment authorization document) cards. We found out they’re getting social security numbers. They’ve left one loose end. They also got commercial driver’s licenses,” he continued, explaining that they believe there are actually hundreds of thousands of drivers who...

Supreme Court won't stop Trump administration's bump stock ban originally appeared on abcnews.go.com The Supreme Court will not stop the Trump administration's ban on bump stocks from going into effect, it was announced on Thursday. The ban on bump stocks was announced by the Justice Department in December 2018 and took effect on Tuesday. On Monday, the Supreme Court was considering an emergency request from Gun Owners of America, Gun Owners Foundation and the Virginia Citizens Defense League to stay the ban while cases challenging it were appealed.

FULL TITLE: Chattanooga school bus driver was involved in another collision just two months ago - and only got his license to drive the vehicle in April The school bus driver charged after a crash that killed five children was involved in another collision just two months ago – and only got his license to drive a school bus in April. Johnthony Walker, 24, was arrested and charged after with five counts of vehicular homicide after the collision in Chattanooga, Tennessee, on Monday. Five Woodmore Elementary students - three fourth-graders, a first-grader and a boy in kindergarten – died in...

My son is in homeschool. He is an experiential kind of guy and is taking couses (some self taught) in tiling, heavy equipment and CDL. I may be able to graduate him as a two year senior with full CDL license. There are a number of other courses I could have him take after highschool, from building post and beam homes, to basic plumbing and electricity, engine repair, to gunsmithing and others. many are available to adults and provided by the private sector. I would love to be able to provide him with a post high school experiential program which...

More Bus Drivers Busted For FraudGot Licenses With Fake Names, Info Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced last Thursday, Aug. 18, that a Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) investigation has led to the arrests of 51 commercial drivers, including bus drivers, for fraudulently obtaining multiple driver licenses using an alias. The arrests were made as the result of the use of facial recognition technology which reviewed the records of 600,000 holders of New York State Commercial Driver Licenses (CDLs). In addition to the most recent arrests, more than 70 other CDL drivers were arrested based on the use of facial recognition...

For a small-government conservative on the presidential campaign stump like Texas Gov. Rick Perry, a new federal regulation forcing farmers to get commercial drivers licenses would make a perfect example of Barack Obama’s Washington run amok. But there is no such regulation. ... The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration stepped in to clarify whether the states had the right to do what Illinois had done, and on May 31, the U.S. Department of Transportation issued a public notice asking for comment on the commercial licensing of farm equipment. Many in the farm community saw that notice as evidence that federal...

A new rule being proposed by the federal Department of Transportation would require farmers to get commercial drivers licenses. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, which is a part of DOT, wants to adopt standards that would reclassify all farm vehicles and implements as Commercial Motor Vehicles, officials said. Likewise, the proposal, if adopted, would require all farmers and everyone on the farm who operates any of the equipment to obtain a CDL, they added. The proposed rule change would mean that anyone who drives a tractor or operates any piece of motorized farming equipment would be required to pass...