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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Josh Funk

Federal government to withhold $40M from California for not enforcing trucker English requirements

Government Shutdown Aviation - (Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Wednesday he will withhold $40 million from California because it is the only state that is failing to enforce English language requirements for truckers.

An investigation launched after a deadly Florida crash involving a foreign truck driver who made an illegal U-turn on Aug. 12 found what Duffy called significant failures in the way California is enforcing rules that took effect in June after one of President Donald Trump’s executive orders. California had issued the driver a commercial license, but these English rules predate the crash.

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