…private trucking programs charging $2,500 or less in tuition are exempt from licensing and regulation by the Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education (BPPE). This has created a gray area where nearly 200 such schools issue non-domiciled commercial driver’s licenses (CDLs) with little accountability.
Lewie Pugh, executive vice president of the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association (OOIDA), told the DCNF that this lack of enforcement is part of a broader federal failure in trucking oversight. He argued that even the basic federal Entry-Level Driver Training (ELDT) requirements are poorly enforced, allowing inadequate programs to persist and produce underprepared drivers — foreign or domestic — who pose risks on the highways.[…]
Pugh described the federal Entry-Level Driver Training (ELDT) program, launched in 2022 as the first real requirement for new truckers, as fundamentally ineffective. Applicants simply complete an online registration, find a registered trainer (who needs only minimal qualifications), and have the trainer check off topics taught — often with no meaningful behind-the-wheel instruction required.
So the process to become a commercial driver is as follows:
Licence issuer: “Do you, unspecified name, have a heartbeat?”
Applicant: (shrugs)
Translator: (unintelligible gibberish)
Applicant: (more unintelligible gibberish)
Translator: “Says, yes.”
Licence issuer: “Congratulations here is your temporary to be replaced with a permanent card coming in the mail!”
…private trucking programs charging $2,500 or less in tuition are exempt …”
Just curious … do these same EXEMPT trucking “schools” also receive Federal Student Loan $$$?
I do not know about you, but driving a big truck was always a dream. Alas, many of us are forced to put aside our dreams because of far-white colonialist settler acid capitalism. Now, thanks to no-ability, no-culpability, no-responsibility progressive policies, joy is part of joy riding again! After the inevitable intersection of bridge abutment and bumper, just throw those ‘ink still wet’ papers into the twisted metal cab and head back to the office for a fresh identity and fresh fun. Remember to wear gloves so no fingerprints and no cuts and scratches from the shattered glass. Things are going to clamp down probably, so this is the time to take advantage of this. Remember Lawn Darts? Clackers? Act now, have fun!
Beep beep, umm, beep beep, yeah!