The Department of Transportation is facing a lawsuit from trucking safety advocates and the teamsters for failing to set adequate new truck driver safety standards.
Back in 1991 Congress enacted a law which required the D.O.T to create minimum training standards for new truck drivers. Now over 20 years later, they’ve yet to follow through.
The suit is aimed at putting a halt to “driver-mills” that pump out new commercial drivers with minimal training — sometimes with just a simple written test and no actual experience on the road.
This isn’t the first time the D.O.T is being challenged on their failure to act. However, with the increase media exposure on recent trucking tragedies, could this be the final straw that pushes them to enact stricter training standards?
