"If states had followed the rules, this driver would never have been behind the wheel and three precious lives would still be with us. This crash was a preventable tragedy directly caused by reckless decisions and compounded by despicable failures. Non-enforcement and radical immigration policies have turned the trucking industry into a lawless frontier, resulting in unqualified foreign drivers improperly acquiring licenses to operate 40-ton vehicles."
"Duffy vowed in his statement that he and President Donald Trump will bring safety back to the roads, blasting radical immigration policies and non-enforcement in the trucking industry. We will use every tool at our disposal to hold these states and bad actors accountable. President Trump and I will restore safety to our roads, he wrote. The families of the deceased deserve justice. This cannot happen again."
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced an investigation after a Florida Turnpike crash on Aug. 12 in which a minivan struck a semi-truck during an illegal U-turn, killing three people. Harjinder Singh, the semi-truck driver, was arrested on vehicular manslaughter charges. Preliminary findings indicate Washington State improperly issued Singh a full-term CDL, Singh lacks English proficiency and has trouble identifying road signs, and the FMCSA has opened probes into Singh and White Hawk Carrier, Inc. Duffy blamed non-enforcement and immigration policies for unsafe licensing practices and pledged to hold states and carriers accountable.
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