Dept of Transportation Secretary Scott Duffy and Dept of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin hold a press conference to announce emergency DoT and DHS action to initiate an emergency shutdown of regulated training centers for commercial driver’s licenses.
Actions announced include DoT (1) Emergency removal of 110 commercial driver’s license (CDL) schools associated with more than 5,000 drivers who failed English language proficiency tests. (2) Launching a nationwide audit of third-party CDL skills testers and states’ oversight of the testers. (3) Results from 40-state investigation of additional training schools. From DHS (1) Synchronized single-day sweep targeting more than 200 training schools across 23 states. (2) Joint coordination with USDOT. (3) HSI and ICE updates on ongoing investigations targeting CDL-related businesses and schools.
Secretary Duffy and Secretary Mullin outlined the issues and actions in a press conference this morning. WATCH:
[Press Release Here]
What Secretary Mullin outlined in his remarks is stunning. During one taskforce setup, in the first day they stopped 14 big rig drivers with a CDL that said “No Name Given” for the truck driver’s identification. They didn’t even have names on their commercial driver’s licenses.
At 41:10 of the video, a reporter downplays the issue claiming only 1% of the accidents on the road are caused by drivers who do not speak English. Secretary Mullin responds with a very intense pushback against the reporter.
Go – Go – Go!!!
Loving this!
Would be nice to have the camera face the reporters once in a while so we can see who’s asking these questions.
Also, they should be given a microphone so we can hear them.
Even one inconvenience caused by an illegal in a citizen’s pursuit of happiness is unacceptable and proof of failed gov’t.
Zero Tolerance!
As a person that drives a minimum of 30,000 miles a year for work (not much compared to truckers), I applaud anything that can be done to make our roadways safer.
The amount of stupidity I’ve seen on the road since 2020 has skyrocketed, and I’m convinced it’s largely attributed to foreigners that have no concept of traffic laws and rules of the road.
Revoke their licenses, and send em back to wherever the hell they came form.
And something needs to be done about the stupidity of texting while driving.
guilty
And at red lights. So annoying when the light goes green and they have no idea. What is do friggin important?
The lamestream media should be required to place themselves, their relatives & friends on the roads congested with big rigs daily so that they can be enriched by the less than 1%.
I challenge them to offer themselves & their loved ones up as sacrificial lambs to that “less than 1%.”
Honestly what level of malevolence or absolute stupidity is required to make idiotic statements of that kind?
What level? The pretending not to know things level that exists in liberal minds
Part of Making American Roads Safe Again requires the removal of all driving licenses from anyone in America who drives a motor vehicle and is not fluent in English.
100% Peace. As Teddy Roosevelt pointed out long ago, if you don’t speak English and don’t want to assimilate into the fabric of this country, you are an enemy and should be treated as such. I’m paraphrasing but that what he said. I want all illegals out. I’m so done with them turning this country into a third world sh-thole and, most of all, putting all Americans lives at risk. 😡😡
I posit that to make America safe again we remove them from the country if they do not assimilate.
Posted in last thread.
FL DMV…All tests in English Only..No translator!
Was in local office a month ago watched “illegal” and translator turned away, made the much shorter wait more enjoyable.
When driving now I stare up into the truck cabs to see who is driving-if they are dark swarthy and wearing a turban I get away as fast as possible. Yes, I am profiling.
Me too. Add to it any Kia, Nissan or beat up looking mini van.
I try my best to keep my eyes on the road, regardless. 🤷♀️
Prosecute the Democrats who created the problem.
Sounds like John is good having you and me suffer, but his loved ones, that just isn’t reasonable…
Nuts to them all!
Start throwing the company executives in prison and the problems will clear up even faster. Bet they won’t do that.
And gov’t officials & workers that give out the CDLs. They can stop it, they choose not to.
Non english speaking truck drivers are as dangerous as the covid jab.
The American way of life has been destroyed by and illegal aliens and cheap labor.
How about sanctioning *individuals* in state and federal government that permit CDL, healthcare, voting, and social services fraud? The perps can regain access after one year of community service (6 hrs/day) picking up trash in inner cities and along rail lines.
Good, now Hopefully more big rigs will stop treating their turn signals like the idiots in 1998 honda civics do.
Ex: “I turn on signal I change lane right now.”
Let me clarify what it means when you see “No Name Given” on an official document. I see it in my line of work- there are people from certain countries like Burma, even India or other Asian countries who do not have a first name, only a last name. I know it’s weird. So when they come here, the government puts “No Name Given” on official documents instead of a first name, since they don’t have one. No official documents would have just ” No Name Given ” on them, that would be insane.
“14 big rig drivers with a CDL that said “No Name Given” for the truck driver’s identification.”
That shows the states are complicit in this. There is never a case where that should be assigned to a person.
They’re going after schools, which is very good. When are they going after the states and the gov’t workers that gave out these CDLs? Start with the easy ones that gave out “No Name Given.” I see firings & prison for them. Aside from fraudulent gov’t document charges, a bit of 8 USC 1324 would do well.
A couple of years ago my husband called 911 on a truck driver who was repeatedly drifting out of his lane. We had all our kids with us.
Get these rigs off the road! This should have happened right when President Trump took office. Plus take EVERY driver’s license away from all illegals and depot them.
Thank God for President Trump but he has to put the hammer down on his administration.
All states: local media, local politician’s and the local POLICE are hiding the fact that the majority are illegals that cause accidents.
They don’t want us to know how many innocent Americans that are slaughtered every day.
I’ve always been a cautious driver but now I’m extremely cautious and it’s still not enough. The crazy drivers are everywhere now. It has NEVER been this bad.
In PA, the Paul Miller law restricting any and all mobile device use while driving went into effect this summer. All drivers statewide can now be fined as a primary offense for even looking at a phone while the engine is running, even while the vehicle is stopped.
Paul was killed by a tractor trailer driver who dropped a cell phone while driving, crossed the highway, and clipped several vehicles, pushing Paul’s car off the road killing him. The truck driver had several prior incidents of distracted driving. It’s really hard to find his name for some reason, but enough searching and you find it is Jaswinder Singh, a commercial driver from NJ.
There was very little media digging into how Mr Singh got his CDL 15 years ago, but knowing now how the trucking industry was so lax in issuing licenses, maybe the real problem wasn’t distracted driving requiring the state to regulate all its citizens.
Why did this take so long?
This administration sits on their hands and dithers. When they finally do something, everyone applauds like, “Good job for dragging your feet.”