"American families should have confidence that our school bus and truck drivers are following every letter of the law and that starts with receiving proper training before getting behind the wheel, Duffy said."
The federal Transportation Department ordered closure of over 550 commercial driving schools after inspectors completed 1,426 site visits in December and identified significant safety shortcomings. Inspectors found unqualified instructors, failure to adequately test students, lack of hazardous-materials training and use of incorrect equipment for training. The action targets active schools and follows earlier steps to decertify as many as 7,500 mostly defunct programs. The crackdown intensified after fatal crashes involving drivers who should not have been licensed, including a Florida crash tied to an unauthorized driver and other recent fatal incidents. Many targeted schools are smaller programs; some removed themselves from the registry when inspections were announced.
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