Feds shut driving schools that certify – Latest News
No English? No business driver’s license.
The feds are proper to slam the brakes on a ridiculous quantity of driving schools that churn out licensed truck drivers who can’t learn the indicators of the street.
This week, US Transportation Security Sean Duffy ordered 110 driving schools shuttered — together with 11 in California — attributable to a beautiful lack of ABCs.
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“If you’re here illegally and you can’t speak the language and you’re not well-trained, you don’t deserve to be in a big rig,” Duffy instructed reporters.
(Obviously.)
“By far, the worst abusers are in California under Gavin Newsom’s leadership,” added Markwayne Mullin, US secretary of homeland security.
(Sigh.)
The schools, with names like “TRUCKMASTER CDL SCHOOL” and “GO4CDL LLC,” embody areas in Southern California, the Bay Area and the Central Valley, The Post discovered. They charge candidates 1000’s of {dollars} apiece for business driver’s license coaching, which generally requires at the very least 160 hours of instruction. Somehow, an alarming quantity of licensed drivers emerge from these applications unable to learn primary street indicators — an egregious public hazard.
Jashanpreet Singh was remanded to jail after going through felony expenses for killing a number of people whereas driving a truck illegally in Rancho Cucamonga, Calif. Frederick M. Brown for NY Post
Harjinder Singh, an unlawful migrant, was arrested in August over a wreck in Florida that left three people lifeless. St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Office
Foreign nationals with US business driver’s licenses had been answerable for at the very least 17 deadly crashes in 2025, inflicting 30 deaths, in keeping with the US Department of Transportation.
In one high-profile case, Jashanpreet Singh, a licensed truck driver who understood little English, brought about an eight-car crash on Interstate 10 in Ontario, Calif., in October. Three people died and 4 had been injured.
In one other instance, Harjinder Singh, who’d failed the business driver’s license check a number of instances within the state of Washington, obtained a business license in California — and went on to trigger an August 2025 crash in Florida that killed three people.
After the accident, transportation officers stated he flunked an English proficiency check and misidentified primary freeway indicators.
It’s outrageous that California coverage drives a lot struggling. Too usually, radical sanctuary guidelines not solely make life simpler for unlawful immigrants, however shield those that commit crimes or in any other case endanger others.
It ought to be apparent: Those who can’t learn easy street indicators ought to be nowhere close to the wheel of a 40-ton semi-truck.
So it’s good to see the feds slap a signal of their own on shady driving schools — one that reads “Do not enter.”
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