Transportation Dept orders 110-plus truck driving schools to stop training

The Transportation Department is pulling more than 110 truck-driving schools off its federal training registry. It matched roadside inspection tickets against the registry and tied those schools to over 5,000 drivers who failed federal English tests. The schools must stop classroom and road instruction at once. The department has proposed the same step against more than 160 other schools. It has also opened a national audit of outside CDL testers and the states that watch them. The 110 schools are about 0.6% of the 18,116 providers on the registry. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said the department was removing schools that had certified "dangerous foreign drivers."

• 110-plus schools removed now; 160-plus more proposed for removal