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More than 9,500 truckers have been removed from America’s roads for failing English tests, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has revealed.
“We’ve now knocked 9,500 truck drivers out of service for failing to speak our national language — ENGLISH!” Duffy wrote in a post on X.
“This administration will always put you and your family’s safety first.”
The tally stretches back to May, when the Department of Transportation reinstated penalties for drivers who cannot read or speak English sufficiently well to drive a commercial truck.
“America First means safety first,” Duffy said in May.
“Americans are a lot safer on roads alongside truckers who can understand and interpret our traffic signs. This common-sense change ensures the penalty for failure to comply is more than a slap on the wrist.”
In March, President Trump signed an Executive Order designating English as the official language of the United States. The following month, he signed another Order directing Secretary Duffy to ensure truckers who cannot fail an English-proficiency test are prevented from driving.
“My Administration will enforce the law to protect the safety of American truckers, drivers, passengers, and others, including by upholding the safety enforcement regulations that ensure that anyone behind the wheel of a commercial vehicle is properly qualified and proficient in our national language, English,” Trump wrote in the April order.
“This is common sense.”
Since Trump’s return to office, there has been intense scrutiny on the safety of America’s roads, as a result of a series of fatal crashes involving foreign or nondomiciled drivers.
In one notable instance, an Indian national called Harjinder Singh was arrested for undertaking an illegal U-turn on a Florida turnpike, killing three.
The Epoch Times reports, “Officials said Singh—who was in the United States illegally—failed an English exam, answered only two of 12 questions correctly, and could identify just one of four road signs. Despite that, Washington state issued him a full-term commercial driver’s license (CDL) in 2023, and California issued a second CDL in 2024.”
Singh has pleaded not guilty.
An official audit of the issuance of commercial driver’s licenses (CDLs) found a “catastrophic pattern” of non-compliance with federal rules, especially in California.
More than 25% of California’s nondomiciled CDLs were found to have been issued incorrectly.
“What our team has discovered should disturb and anger every American,” Duffy said in September.
“Licenses to operate a massive, 80,000-pound truck are being issued to dangerous foreign drivers–often times illegally. This is a direct threat to the safety of every family on the road, and I won’t stand for it.”
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