Illegal alien truck drivers, including those who sometimes cannot read or speak English or recognize road signs, must have roadway rights, according to a panel of judges who ruled on the Trump administration’s effort to crack down on dangerous – and deadly – big rig operators.
A report published at Fox News said the ruling means the Department of Transportation’s limits on aliens getting commercial vehicle licenses cannot be enforced at this point.
The restrictions were created quickly after an illegal alien truck driver in Florida was accused of causing a tractor-trailer crash that killed three people.
Multiple other similar situations have developed since then, also costing lives.
Several of the truck drivers have tried to make U-turns through interstate medians, a maneuver that already is illegal, and have cause huge crash pileups.
The Florida case, near Fort Pierce, involved Harjinder Singh, of India.
He was in the United States illegally, and now has pleaded not guilty to three counts of vehicular homicide for his accident.
The ruling claimed the federal government didn’t follow procedures to create the rule.
Singh had gotten his license from California, and failed his exams multiple times.
A later audit of the state records prompted the revocation of some 17,000 such licenses.
According to the report, the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association, representing some 150,000 truckers, thanked the Trump administration for working to “restore commonsense safety standards.”
It said in a statement, “OOIDA applauds the Administration for seeing through the myth of a truck driver shortage and continuing efforts to restore commonsense safety standards on our nation’s highways. Pausing visas for commercial truck drivers will help ensure only qualified individuals get licensed. Additionally, there is unlikely to be any negative effect on the supply chain, as the trucking industry continues to face overcapacity.”
Already, federal officials have withheld $40 million from California because of its refusal to enforce English language requirements for truck drivers.
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