U.S. Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy announced that in 2025, 9,500 truck drivers were ordered to stop working, the so-called "out-of-service" (OOS) orders, due to stricter English language proficiency requirements. CDL's driver's license has been suspended.

He also announced that thousands more truck drivers would be stripped of their commercial driver's licenses (CdLS) for misunderstanding signs/instructions, for violating the rules of mandatory English proficiency by participants in commercial transportation - English language proficiency rules (ELP).

We remind you that the driver must understand road signs, communicate with the authorities and be able to fill out documents in English.

Until 2025, this was checked selectively, but after Trump's decree of April 2025, control was noticeably strengthened. 

Since June 2025, violations in the field of English language proficiency (ELP) have again become the basis for the suspension of commercial driver's licenses - CDL.

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