Overview
- More than 300 investigators conducted 1,426 on-site inspections in a five-day nationwide sting of commercial driver training providers.
- Regulators issued 448 notices of proposed removal from the federal training registry, documented 109 voluntary removals, and left 97 providers under investigation.
- Inspectors found systemic deficiencies including unqualified instructors, improper vehicles, inadequate skills and hazardous‑materials training, and fake addresses.
- The administration will require commercial driver’s license exams to be taken in English and is expanding efforts to target fraudulent carriers, increase spot checks, and tighten state compliance.
- Federal officials are pressuring states with funding consequences, already moving to withhold $160 million from California, while major industry groups backed the crackdown as the first robust enforcement of 2022 ELDT standards.