U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy held a news briefing at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Michigan this week, announcing more than 100 truck driving schools across the country are being shut down.
Duffy says the schools included in the emergency executive shutdown account for 5,000 violations of English proficiency rules, meaning the drivers passed or certified do not speak English, which is mandatory by U.S. law.
“We have schools that know the rule and still pass people through their school who can’t speak the language, and so there’s 110 of them through a data analysis that are the greatest offenders,” Duffy said. “As of today, those schools are shut down.”
How many of those schools may be in Michigan was not specified.
We have checked with Lake Michigan College and are told its CDL program has not been affected. Its partner for the program, Regen Trucking School, has passed all federal reviews.
