Authorities in Canada and Missouri recently conducted targeted commercial vehicle operations resulting in more than 100 trucks being placed out of service.
FMCSA’s emergency-removal action reached training providers in 20 states, led by
Texas, Pennsylvania, California, Florida and Utah.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has opened a hotline for suspected CDL fraud.
Texas and Pennsylvania each had 13 commercial driver training schools affected by the Department of Transportation’s emergency enforcement action on Monday.
The Aug. 10-14 enforcement action involved people from 18 countries. CBP also reported two human-smuggling interdictions, a firearm seizure and drug seizures.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced a new federal crackdown Monday targeting commercial driver training schools, CDL skills testers and trucking businesses suspected of fraud.
New York and FMCSA will head to court in late September to fight over CDL rules and federal funding.
A coalition of 22 states challenging the Trump administration’s demand for 17 million commercial driver’s data won a temporary restraining order Thursday.
Enforcement agencies across the U.S. and Canada place 37 commercial vehicles and 8 drivers out of service in latest crackdowns.
A coalition of U.S. states persuaded a federal judge to temporarily block the Department of Homeland Security from obtaining commercial driver records.
More than 20 states are seeking an emergency court order to block the Trump administration from obtaining data tied to 17 million commercial drivers.
A Texas trucking enforcement operation in Wichita County resulted in 14 people being detained for immigration violations.
FMCSA wants to standardize its English-language proficiency enforcement policy into federal regulations.
Indiana State Police recorded 8,650 trucking violations and placed 575 drivers and 597 commercial vehicles out of service in July.
Recent commercial vehicle enforcement operations in Arizona, Nebraska, New York and Canada found hundreds of violations and put 30 truck driver out of service.
A three-day federal operation led to the arrest of 86 truck drivers, 766 out-of-service orders and 51 immigrant detentions.
New report credits federal regulators and states with tighter cabotage enforcement and tougher CDL oversight affecting more than 194,000 non-domiciled commercial drivers.
Joint truck inspection operations recently generated hundreds of violations and sidelined commercial vehicles from New England to the Mountain West.
A group of states led by Republican governors is backing FMCSA in the non-domiciled lawsuit.
Law enforcement agencies across the U.S. are stepping up commercial vehicle enforcement, with recent cases ranging from unlicensed hotshot drivers to impaired truckers and dangerous equipment violations.
