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US orders English only trucker and bus license tests under safety crackdown
International
Published on 24 April 2026
Some states and testers may now be sidelined
The Trump administration says all commercial driver’s license tests for truckers and bus drivers must be taken in English, linking the move to road safety and removing potentially unqualified drivers. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says the goal is to ensure drivers can read road signs and communicate with law enforcement, targeting multilingual testing and lax third-party enforcement.
- All CDL tests for truckers and bus drivers must be in English
- Rule aims to improve road safety and weed out unqualified drivers
- Targets multilingual state testing and less strict third-party testers
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