12/17/2025
The DOT has been working for months to pull back the non-domiciled CDL process in the United States. In late September, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration issued an emergency interim final rule that would pull non-domiciled CDLs from nearly 200,000 individuals. The agency said the “broken” system allowed thousands of unqualified people to receive CDLs.
“The mission is to get compliance to make sure that we have safe commercial drivers on American roadways and that Americans are safe,” Duffy said. “That is the mission … When an American family gets in a car, they shouldn’t be concerned that they have an unqualified foreigner operating an 80,000-pound big rig that could endanger their lives.”
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