Overview
- Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy ordered PennDOT to halt issuing, renewing, transferring, or upgrading nondomiciled CDLs and commercial learner’s permits.
- DOT demands a full internal audit and the rescission of any licenses that do not meet federal rules to avoid loss of funds.
- An FMCSA review cited two cases out of 150 sampled where license expirations exceeded the holder’s authorized stay in the U.S.
- Federal officials pointed to the arrest of Akhror Bozorov, an Uzbekistan national with a Pennsylvania CDL, as an example referenced in the enforcement push.
- Parts of DOT’s emergency restrictions on which noncitizens can receive CDLs were temporarily stayed by a federal appeals court, even as the agency expands audits to other states.