"Long overdue" Trucking Association of New York weighs in on federal CDL crackdown

U.S. Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy says his agency, in partnership with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, has removed more than 300 CDL training schools throughout the country as a part of a CDL "fraud crackdown". "USDOT has spent the last year-and-a-half strengthening the rules of the road and removing dangerous foreign drivers from our trucking industry," said U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy in a statement. "From states failing to follow the law to shady training schools and illicit companies, together we will tackle every link in the chain." Duffy says the DOT is launching a nationwide audit of States' oversight of third-party CDL skills testers. The news being met with applause by the Trucking Association of New York State. "We support it," Kendra Hems, President of the Trucking Association of New York State, says.