CDL

Arizona DPS recently cited a a hotshot driver for operating a commercial vehicle without a CDL.

Federal immigration agents are now partnering with state truck weigh stations across the U.S. to crack down on illegal commercial truckers.

Ron DeSantis vetoed a bill that would have allowed some Florida inmates to get CDL training.

The Small Business in Transportation Coalition has asked a federal court to push for decertification of CDL programs in New York and California.

Federal safety rules attach to the truck, not the driver. Get under the weight, the seats, or the license class, and some screening lifts. Here’s what the inspection data shows about who ends up behind the wheel of your delivery truck.

Texas resumes issuing some non-domiciled CDL licenses for legally authorized foreign workers.

Ohio plans to review about 5,000 non-domiciled CDLs, adding to a nationwide compliance effort affecting foreign commercial drivers.

A report found major gaps in Ontario, Canada’s commercial truck driver training enforcement, prompting renewed calls for tougher audits and licensing reforms.

A Freightliner Cascadia operated by Amritsar Trans Inc., a five-truck carrier out of Manteca, California, rear-ended three vehicles on Highway 99 near Lodi on May 19, 2026, killing two young men. The driver fled on foot. The carrier sits inside a web of 267 carriers clustered across residential addresses in the same ZIP code, and 10 involuntary revocation actions.

On Monday, May 18, U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy announced that FMCSA is deploying $217 million across four grant programs targeting trucking safety enforcement, CDL program modernization, technology deployment at roadside inspections, and career training for military veterans entering the trucking industry. This is not a future commitment. Applications are open right now. The […]

The Texas Attorney General’s Office is investigating CDL training programs while also challenging supplier diversity policies at CVS Health.

We have never seen a twelve-month period in which the White House, the Department of Transportation, and FMCSA moved as aggressively, as comprehensively, and as effectively on the specific safety failures that haunt our highways and our industry. Before we sit down with Derek Barrs on Monday, here is the year that got us here.

On April 23, a State Department spokesperson confirmed that commercial truck driver visa processing has resumed under strict new standards. Now the question is whether the states tasked with running the new system have the institutional capacity to maintain what federal audit pressure forced them to fix.

The single most common-sense safety reform available to the trucking industry right now is to acknowledge that a regulation based on annual snapshots of a driver’s licensing status is inadequate for an industry where licenses can be suspended, revoked, or downgraded at any time.

This week the agency announced that new Clearinghouse registrants will have to prove their identity before gaining SAP-level access to a federal database that 38 million queries have trusted since 2020.

FMCSA confirmed today that $73,502,543 in federal highway funding has been withheld from New York after the state refused to revoke non-domiciled commercial driver’s licenses that its own DMV system issued illegally. More than half of the records audited violated federal law. Decertification of New York’s entire CDL program remains explicitly on the table.

One Indianapolis suburb has 1,000 newly registered trucking carriers. One neighborhood inside that suburb has more than 300 active carriers covering roughly 250 homes. The CDL crackdown is real, starting today in Indiana

America’s highways became a testing ground for unqualified drivers long before anyone in Washington was paying attention. Now, with Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy shuttering thousands of sham CDL schools and placing unqualified truckers out of service, he emphasized to the frontline at the Mid-America Trucking Show that drivers’ day has finally come.

The headline writes itself and the industry groups are celebrating: Pell Grants are coming to CDL schools. The American Trucking Associations called it a move that would “dismantle financial barriers that prevent students from low-income households from accessing the career pathways that lead to the trucking industry.” The Secretary of Education said a great education […]

A driver gets his permit in Hawaii, boards a plane to New Jersey, trains Sunday through Thursday, passes a skills test on Friday, flies home Saturday, and walks out of a DMV with a commercial driver’s license. Federal law allowed all of it. That’s the problem.