Enough is enough. That is the message Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy delivered as the Trump administration yanked 270 commercial driver’s license schools off the road.
One hundred ten schools were hit with an emergency shutdown after data tied them to about 5,000 trainees later found unable to meet the English-proficiency rule that has been on the books for decades. Another 160 were shuttered or ordered to stop because they were mills in all but name: no room to put a trainee in a truck, no space to run cones and turns, unlicensed instructors, paper certifications. Duffy and Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin announced the sweep Monday. Duffy blamed the Biden years for dropping long-standing safety rules and letting schools self-certify.
The human cost is not abstract. Duffy said 239 people have died on American roads in crashes correlated with a driver who was not proficient in English. California issued a large share of the licenses in those wrecks. Since enforcement tightened, more than 28,000 truckers have been placed out of service for failing English checks at the roadside. One of the closed sites, Platinum Plus in Fresno, was accused of training 36 drivers later cited for the language standard.
This is not a new regulation invented for a press conference. Federal law has required English for commercial motor vehicles for decades — so a driver can read signs, talk to troopers, and understand dispatch and emergency instructions. Schools that knew the rule and waved people through anyway were not running a training program. They were selling a credential.
Big rigs are 80,000-pound weapons when the person behind the wheel cannot follow a cop’s order or a construction sign. Duffy used emergency authority because families already paid the price. The next step is the audit of state third-party testers and the rest of the mills still hiding in 23 states.
Highways are not a social experiment. Speak the language. Know the truck. Or park it.
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