Truck -based transportation groups require the Trump administration to accelerate recent efforts to ensure highway safety in the country as a reaction to a collision in Florida, which included a shipping truck that left three people.
The FMCSA safety company is achieving the crash of August 12, as it was claimed that the truck driver did an illegal rotation on a divided highway, causing the truck to Jacinif and collided with a small bus. FMCSA began to investigate the driver, Harjinder Singh, and Carrier Freight Carrier, Whitk Carriers, based in California, on August 14. Singh-which the federal authorities say the United States illegally entered in 2018 and was commenting on immigration charges. Singh was driving his car under a California -limited commercial driver’s license (CDL).
The accident highlights the recent efforts made by the Trump administration to tighten safety standards and check the CDLS version at the country level, which has gained praise from industrial trade groups. In April, President Trump signed an executive order that requires strict enforcement of the English language mastery standards, which resulted in the cancellation of the 2016 directives that resulted in the relaxation of these rules. In May, FMCSA announced a two -step test to enforce standards, which entered into force on June 25. The Trump administration also said it will review and evaluate state policies and protocols to issue CDLS for a trade between states.
Truck -up transport groups require federal organizers and government states to do more in the light of Florida’s state, which they say embodies the problems resulting from the policies of enforcement of relaxation and gaps that they say allows drivers that are not qualified to obtain CDLS.
In a letter to US Transport Minister Sean Duffy on Monday, the Independent Drivers Association for Workers (Oida) asked the Trump administration to suspend the authority of states for unconnected CDLS, which some states provide to non -American or applicants outside the country under certain circumstances. Ooida and others say these special licensing procedures are problematic and inconsistent, and often putting uncharacious drivers behind the wheel. They cite the inability to verify the foreign driving record for the non -American citizen as one example. Follow Ooida the message with similar requests to individual cases of unoccupied CDLS.
Singl CDL was released in California last year and was previously released for a full -term regular CDL in Washington State, according to the Ministry of Transport.
“We are certainly doing everything we can to make sure to take preventive measures at the level of the federal level and the state level,” Todd Spencer, President of OOIDA, said in an interview on Thursday, stressing the need for better training for truck cars in general. “If we are serious about improving safety on highways, we must increase the beginners’ experience for new people who enter this industry, as you do not wonder whether the driver knows what they are doing.
“It is more than just English; it’s essential qualifications. I think in [the Florida incident] There were no qualifications. This is just evidence that no country should give this man CDL – and for the two, Washington and California. “
The best training is the best way to improve the safety of highways as well as the efficiency of transportation and the supply chain.
American truck transport associations (ATA) weighed this week, renewing their support to enforce the proficiency of the English language and urge more scrutiny in drivers training and licensing programs as well.
“This incident confirms the importance and insistence of the Trump administration to check the CDL version at the country level, in addition to its improved enforcement of the English language efficiency – Dan Horfath said in a statement on Monday.” ATA believes that strong drivers training standards at the entry level are very important to prevent accidents such incidents, but we are still concerned that fraudulent entities and incompatible with what continues to fall off Fast CDL with minimal training, as is the case, the ATA letter was immediately emphasized to FMCS. Register. “
Florida’s crash remained under investigation on Thursday. Singh faces deportation and three charges of killing in vehicles.
