A federal government official is bragging about how much has been done in the past year to “rein in the trucking industry which has been allowed to operate like the Wild, Wild West for far too long.”
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy recently highlighed the progress made in the past year since President Donald Trump signed an executive order “Enforcing Commonsense Rules of the Road for America’s Truck Drivers.”
“The Trump Administration has hit major milestones in our efforts to rein in the trucking industry which has been allowed to operate like the Wild, Wild West for far too long,” said Duffy. “We’ve brought back common sense rules of the road including requiring English language proficiency and valid working documents for foreign drivers. When state leaders failed to keep Americans on the road safe, we stepped in and held them accountable and we’re just getting started.”
In the past year, Duffy said federal regulators have cracked down on drivers who can’t read road signs, closed loopholes allowing unqualified foreign drivers to get licenses to drive big rigs, held states accountable for illegally issuing non-domiciled commercial driver’s licenses, and shut down thousands of fraudulent training schools.
Duffy said the DOT also championed the American trucker by cutting burdensome red tape, expanding truck parking, launching flexible hours-of-service pilots, and upgrading registration systems and processes to ensure fair treatment.
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