The U.S. Department of Transportation, the Department of Homeland Security and federal prosecutors, in a coordinated effort, have begun to crack down on fraud in the trucking industry. Their concerted actions include:

USDOT

• Emergency removal of 110 commercial driver’s license schools associated with more than 5,000 drivers who failed English language proficiency tests;

• Launching a nationwide audit of third-party CDL skills testers and states’ oversight of the testers;

• Results from 40-state investigation of additional training schools;

DHS

• Synchronized single-day sweep targeting more than 200 training schools across 23 states

• Joint coordination with USDOT;

• HSI and ICE updates on ongoing investigations targeting CDL-related businesses and schools; and

DOJ

• Formation of Joint Task Force Crossroads of America to safeguard the nation’s highway system and strengthen the security of our borders.

According to DOT, in the past year-and-a-half, the department has removed over 28,000 drivers off our roads for failing to speak English, forced states to cancel over 30,000 licenses illegally issued to foreign drivers, and purged over 8,000 unqualified training schools from the FMCSA Training Provider Registry.