After series of accidents involving migrant, non-English speaking drivers, the Trump administration is rolling out new regulations to keep unqualified foreigners from driving commercial vehicles. New rules will drastically reduce the number of eligible people and will also close the loopholes that now exist between the federal rules and the state rules. Harjinder Singh, Jashanpreet Singh, Rajinder Kumar and Kamalpreet Singh -- all Indian-origin truck drivers -- have been accused of causing fatal crashes on American highways in the past few months. All of them obtained a non-domiciled CDL in California.
“For far too long, America has allowed dangerous foreign drivers to abuse our truck licensing systems – wreaking havoc on our roadways,” transportation secretary Sean Duffy said in a statement to Daily Caller. “Moving forward, unqualified foreign drivers will be unable to get a license to operate an 80,000-pound big rig.”
