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Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy recently reacted to a video that depicts a semi truck driver confronting a fellow truck driver who is going the wrong way through a toll booth in Indiana. The dash cam video was captured on October 11, 2025, and shared by TWOSU NEWS. The dash cammer described the incident: “I was driving west on interstate 90 in Indiana when I watched a semi truck drive the wrong way through the toll booth on 10/11/2025 at 03:30. Fearing he would cause a head on crash, I blocked him to see what the heck he was doing.“ The...

The trucking company involved in a deadly drowsy driving crash on Interstate 20 near Dallas over the summer had its insurance canceled this week. Trucking company Hope Trans had their insurance cancelled on October 8th, rendering them legally unable to operate further. In late August, Hope Trans was given 60 days to take “substantive corrective actions” to fix multiple violations discovered by the FMCSA. In late September, a wrongful death lawsuit was brought against the company, the owner, and a broker. The crash happened on June 28th. Truck driver Alexis Osmani Gonzalez-Companioni is currently in jail on a $2.25 million...

A former Massachusetts State Police commander has been sentenced to six years in federal prison for orchestrating a bizarre and brazen bribery scheme that traded commercial driver’s licenses for everything from snowblowers and driveways to candy and bottled water — a scandal prosecutors called one of the “oddest and greediest” cases of public corruption in state history. Gary Cederquist, 60, of Stoughton, who once led the Commercial Driver’s License (CDL) Unit, was convicted in May on 48 federal counts, including extortion, mail fraud, falsifying records, and honest services fraud. Prosecutors said the former trooper granted passing road test scores to...

The federal government is accusing New York of falsely claiming that a commercial driver's license seized during an immigration raid in Oklahoma was issued legally and under the correct name. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security released new information about the license Friday, several days after claims about its origin went viral on social media. The man, identified by the homeland security agency as Anmol Anmol, was arrested on Sept. 23 during a truck inspection detail on Interstate 40 that was being conducted by the Oklahoma Highway Patrol. Anmol's last name was listed as "Anmol" on the New York license,...

A change in insurance policies could be coming to the trucking industry, signaling a major shift in their approach to non-domiciled commercial driver’s licenses (CDLs). As enforcement of the new non-domiciled CDL rule takes shape, insurance companies are likely to position themselves to avoid potential liability exposure. According to an insurance executive at one of the largest brokers in the country, who spoke on condition of anonymity, he expects that insurance carriers are likely to implement policy changes that explicitly prevent the hiring of drivers with non-domiciled CDLs within the next year. The concern stems from the potential for “nuclear...

MINEOLA, New York (WABC) -- The Nassau County District Attorney's Office has charged a group of seven people, including DMV employees, on Thursday in an alleged driver's license cheating scheme on Long Island. Deciding who gets to operate heavy rigs on the roads and highways is not something the New York Department of Motor Vehicles takes lightly. "Bypassing that safeguard is far from a harmless shortcut, it is a dangerous threat to public safety," said New York Inspector General Lucy Lang during a Thursday morning press conference. But that's what prosecutors in Nassau County are alleging in a new 51-count...

FIRST ON FOX: An illegal immigrant carrying a New York state commercial driver’s license with "NO NAME GIVEN" listed as his name was arrested by ICE in Oklahoma, according to DHS. The agency said that it has been working in conjunction with the U.S. Department of Transportation as well as state and local law enforcement to get illegal truck drivers off American highways following the high-profile accident involving Indian illegal Harjinder Singh. Working with the Oklahoma Highway Patrol, ICE arrested another Indian illegal alien named Anmol Anmol. DHS said that Anmol was carrying a New York commercial driver’s license on...

CEDAR CITY, Utah (KUTV) — A new emergency action plan by the U.S. Secretary of Transportation has temporarily paused the issuance and renewal of commercial driver's licenses across the country. States must now audit their licensing systems, which have left many legal non-citizens unsure if they can keep working. “I got to keep driving down these roads of a country that doesn't really want me here,” said Jorge Rivera, a truck driver from Enoch. Rivera is one of roughly 580,000 people across the country under DACA, a federal program that allows immigrants brought to the United States as children to...

In response to a new emergency rule issued by the Trump administration, the Texas Department of Public Safety suspended issuing certain commercial driver licenses. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy took emergency action to drastically restrict who is eligible for a non-domiciled commercial learner’s permit (CLPs) and CDL. The action was taken in response to an ongoing nationwide audit by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), which identified “a catastrophic pattern of states issuing licenses illegally to foreign drivers.” As of Friday, “non-citizens will not be eligible for a non-domiciled CDL,” Duffy said, unless they have a verified employment-based visa and...

California DMV Taken Over By Feds USDOT Seizes Records. Licenses Suspended

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...