Texas and Pennsylvania, with 13 each, saw the highest number of commercial driver training facilities impacted by the Department of Transportation's crackdown on CDL providers Monday.
| State / Category | Number of Schools |
|---|---|
| Online | 23 |
| Pennsylvania (PA) | 13 |
| Texas (TX) | 13 |
| California (CA) | 11 |
| Florida (FL) | 10 |
| Utah (UT) | 9 |
| Ohio (OH) | 7 |
| Unknown (Inactive) | 4 |
| New Jersey (NJ) | 3 |
| New York (NY) | 3 |
| Wisconsin (WI) | 3 |
| Arizona (AZ) | 2 |
| Colorado (CO) | 1 |
| Idaho (ID) | 1 |
| Kentucky (KY) | 1 |
| Maryland (MD) | 1 |
| New Mexico (NM) | 1 |
| North Carolina (NC) | 1 |
| Oregon (OR) | 1 |
| South Carolina (SC) | 1 |
| Washington (WA) | 1 |
The states are a mix of left- and right-leaning, making good on Transportation Secretary Sean Duff's assertion that Monday's roundup was not a political maneuver. "There's a lot of issues that we could fight about with red and blue... This is an American safety issue."
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) executed the emergency removal of 110 commercial driver’s license training schools from its registry Monday as part of a sweeping interagency crackdown on fraud in trucking.
The total number of physical schools shut down, excluding the 23 online providers and four Unknown (Inactive), was 83.
The now-shuttered schools, USDOT said, are associated with more than 5,000 drivers who failed federal English proficiency tests. The agency has also launched a nationwide audit of third-party CDL skills testers.
Drivers certified by these schools have been linked to 239 commercial vehicle-related fatalities.
Duffy noted that another 160 schools were closed for operating with no trucks, driving yards, or classrooms.
In the past year-and-a-half, USDOT has parked more than 28,000 drivers for failure to speak English, forced states to cancel more than 30,000 licenses illegally issued to foreign drivers, and purged more than 8,000 training schools from the FMCSA registry.
English proficiency even creeped into the Top 5 driver-related offenses during the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance annual Roadcheck campaign in May, accounting for 9% of all driver out of service orders.
