Transportation Department Gives NY State 30 Days to Comply With License Rules

The Department of Transportation (DOT) warned New York state that it has 30 days to comply with new federal rules around nondomiciled commercial driver’s license (CDL) issuances, or it could lose tens of millions of dollars.
“Fifty-three percent of New York’s non-domiciled CDLs were issued unlawfully or illegally,” Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said in a news conference on Dec. 12, adding that “tens of millions of dollars” will be pulled from New York state if it does not comply with his department.
Elaborating, Duffy wrote in a post on X that the DOT will be “holding New York accountable for issuing nondomicile commercial driver’s licenses to truckers illegally. FULL STOP. We’re giving New York 30 days to comply, or we’ll withhold $73 MILLION!”… 

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