Duffy Orders Emergency Shutdown of 110 Truck Driving Schools

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Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced an emergency executive shutdown of 110 commercial driver’s license schools.

“So these are driving schools that account for 5,000 of the violations for English proficiency,” Duffy explained at a press conference. “What I mean by that is, you have to speak English to operate a commercial motor vehicle.”

The English proficiency rule has been in place for decades.

DOT also shut down an additional 160 schools:

We also have shut down 160 additional schools. These are schools that, in essence, certify that they are qualified to train truck drivers.

However, they don’t have adequate space to put a potential driver in a truck and have them go around the cones and do the turns, and they don’t have space to even allow the truck driver to actually get behind the wheel and drive.

They have unlicensed instructors. So you have instructors who aren’t certified, who are allegedly training the new truck drivers to operate on American roadways, and they often times didn’t have classrooms. One school that we’re shutting down was so flippant as they told us their classroom was the school bus that was in the backyard. That was the classroom for which they were training new truck drivers. So you have fraud throughout the schools.

Duffy has long tracked these CDL schools since a deadly crash in Florida in August 2025. The suspect is an illegal alien who unlawfully received a CDL in California.

We’ve seen way too many deadly crashes involving illegal aliens who cannot speak English:

Duffy revealed that one state has only 10 skill testers, who issued 2,000 licenses to people who cannot speak English.

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Derek Barrs pointed out a few driving schools:

Platinum Plus Truck Driving School in California certified 36 drivers who were later cited for these English language proficiency violations, and one of these trainees killed someone in Oklahoma that should have never been on the roadway. ASC Technical Institute in Texas certified 58 of these drivers, and one of these trainees ran a stop sign and killed a local man in a Texas county. It’s unacceptable. When you see people die on the road, you don’t forget that, and it starts right here with what I’m talking about.

Barrs said the department investigated 400 training schools, 40% of which failed to meet the rules and requirements:

And a couple of those examples. Again, in California, operators claimed their classroom was the back end of an open semi trailer. Their primary instructor was out of the country. That should tell you something.

The people conducting the training didn’t possess CDLs, and students were driving commercial vehicles unmonitored.

At Angel’s Transportation in New Jersey, they were in a small parking lot. They couldn’t even do the maneuvers because the parking lot was too small. When schools certified underqualified drivers, these drivers get behind the wheel of 80,000 pound truck that we’ve mentioned, and they kill people. That should that should make you all upset, and they they are responsible for hundreds of deaths in this country.

Arizona

The border patrol also informed Fox News that agents arrested 95 illegal alien truck drivers earlier this month in Arizona.

The illegal aliens possessed commercial driver’s licenses, 76 from California and six from New York.

“We are committed to protecting our citizens from all international threats, whether that is from unlicensed or untrained drivers, or transnational criminal organizations engaged in human or drug trafficking,” Acting Chief Patrol Agent Dustin Caudle told Fox News.

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