Texas, Pennsylvania lead states in CDL school shutdowns

Texas and Pennsylvania had the largest number of brick-and-mortar commercial driver training schools affected by the Department of Transportation’s sweeping crackdown on CDL training providers announced Monday. DOT provided a state-by-state breakdown showing 13 schools each in Texas and Pennsylvania, followed by 11 in California, 10 in Florida and nine in Utah, according to information provided by the agency to Fox News correspondent Bill Melugin . The breakdown comes a day after Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced what he called an emergency shutdown of 110 commercial driver training schools that federal officials identified through an analysis of drivers cited for English-language proficiency violations. “These are driving schools that account for 5,000 of the violations for English proficiency,” Duffy said Monday during a news conference in Detroit. “There’s 110 of them through a data analysis that are the greatest offenders.