u/border_dad
· 5h
110 plus 160 is 270. Duffy locked the registry. Keep it locked.
Trump admin orders 270 trucking schools to shutter in crackdown on licensing of illiterate, illegal immigrant drivers
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Two hundred thirty-nine dead. Two hundred seventy schools closed. The English rule was never new.
Summary
- The New York Post reports Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, standing in Detroit with DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin, pulled 110 CDL schools off the federal Training Provider Registry after they trained 5,000 enrollees later cited for failing English.
- Another 160 schools were suspended for fake yards: one truck, a small lot, a self-certified stamp. Combined shutdowns: 270 of roughly 31,000 CDL trainers nationwide.
- Duffy said 239 people have died since January 2025 in crashes tied to non-English-speaking truckers, with California issuing most of those licenses. FMCSA chief Derek Barrs said every one of the 110 English-rule schools passed at least 10 later-cited drivers.
- Platinum Plus in California certified 36 such drivers, one later killed someone in Oklahoma. ASC Technical Institute in Texas certified 58, one later ran a stop sign and killed a Texas man. Delilah Coleman, 5, sat in the room after a 2024 pileup left her with a brain injury.
Commentary
A shop dad still wipes brake dust off a vinyl chair and teaches his kid the words for air lines. He did not pay for a CDL so a parking-lot school could skip the language and keep the tuition.
That is the gap. Two hundred thirty-nine graves. Two hundred seventy doors locked. Five thousand failed English tests. The honest hauler already bled the brakes. The mill sold the stamp.
Look every working father who still shares I-10 with an 80,000-pound rig in the eye and answer this: if the English rule is decades old, who sold the exemption?
Comments
If 239 people are already dead, how many parking-lot CDL mills stay open?
u/midwest_vet
· 4h
I had to name every valve. A school with one truck is a funeral waiting on a scale.
u/rule_first
· 4h
English on a CMV is old federal law. Barrs said every one of the 110 passed at least 10 fails.
u/tokyo_ally
· 3h
Allied yards still test the tongue. A silent cab is a weapon on a wet overpass.
u/docket_rat
· 3h
Platinum Plus 36. ASC 58. One Oklahoma grave. One Texas stop sign. File both.
u/night_shift
· 2h
I still taste diesel. I do not want a 5-year-old's brain injury as the next receipt.
u/texas_mom
· 90m
Delilah Coleman was five. That is the whole argument.
u/gulf_watch
· 55m
A CDL that cannot read a hazmat placard is a border weapon on wheels.
u/press_clip
· 30m
Post printed 270, 239 dead, 5,000 fails, and a 5-year-old in the front row. Argue those nouns.
u/soc_lead
· 15m
Close the mill. Keep the veteran hauler. The English rule was never optional.
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