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FMCSA is seeking grant applications by July 7 for $89.4 million in Commercial Driver’s License Program Implementation funds to improve highway safety.

A pair of community colleges are offering commercial driver license training in California and Louisiana to introduce students to professional truck driving careers.

The bill is intended to expand enforcement to vehicles 10,001-26,000 pounds and will help align state statute with federal law under the interstate compact.

The transportation secretary mandated non-English-proficient truckers be ordered off roads and promised greater scrutiny on non-domiciled and verifications of U.S. and foreign CDLs.

Top leaders at the Commercial Vehicle Training Association and the National Association of Publicly Funded Truck Driving Schools are expressing “serious concerns” to federal trucking regulators that entry-level driver training enforcement has not kept pace with the threat posed by unscrupulous entities graduating drivers without adequate preparation.  

President Donald Trump's recent executive order declared English proficiency “a non-negotiable safety requirement for professional drivers."

The Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development has awarded $468,255 in grants for commercial driver license training to get 260 drivers on the road.

A federal lawmaker from Wyoming is asking USDOT to require that CMV drivers who cannot demonstrate proficiency with speaking and reading English be taken out of service during inspections.

The bill, signed April 14 by Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, takes aim at what lawmakers and industry experts said is a spate of foreign drivers operating illegally and unsafely on U.S. roads.

Leaders at two truck driving trade groups are expressing “serious concerns” to federal regulators that lax entry-level driver training enforcement may be jeopardizing public safety.