As of Monday, Sept. 29, the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) has suspended the issuance of certain commercial driver licenses (CDLs) in compliance with an emergency rule change by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA).
The department is now suspending the issuance of non-domicile CDLs and all CDLs to non-citizens who are refugees, asylees or Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients.
This suspension also impacts the issuance of non-domicile commercial learners permits (CLPs) and CLPs for non-citizen refugees, asylees and DACA recipients. The department has never issued any type of license to asylum seekers who have not been approved for lawful presence.
Effective immediately, CDL/CLPs will not be issued, renewed or reissued if a customer falls under the non-domicile, refugee, asylee or DACA categories. Customers with a pending issuance will not be allowed to continue any written or skills testing until the services for non-domicile CDL/CLP are reinstated.
The department will continue to update license holders and Texans as it works with FMCSA to comply with the new rules. More information will be posted on the DPS website, here.
This action is a part of the department’s ongoing commitment to keeping Texas roads safe. Earlier this month, Governor Abbott directed DPS Commercial Vehicle Enforcement (CVE) Troopers and inspectors to begin conducting English Language Proficiency reviews for commercial vehicle drivers on Texas roads.
In other words it’s such a racist thing to do when thewhole state is made up of these specific groups of people. POS to be honest. Get your head out of your ass Abbott!!
Thank you Governor Abbott for taking care of our Texas Highways.
I live on Highway 146 North Liberty County.
The big dump trucks speed up and down by my house throwing rocks hitting windshields.
It is awful.
A bad reck killing a young man from Lufkin
They don’t need too have licenses for big trucks till they are at least 30/35 years old.
Thank you so much for making our Texas highways a little safer.
Grammar is apart of the English language. Please learn that first before you start saying who needs to lose their license. Learn the difference between to and too and learn how to spell wreck not reck. Ugh… such a disgrace
Ironic considering you have a couple errors in your pointless rant.
Should have always done this it’s late now to try and fix this ever officer should be on a task force to repair what has already been done that’s on traffic. It should be job one and start with hazmat then get the thousand of gravel trucks who drive overweight and reckless
It’s about time they started doing this. Maybe with more strict enforcement and not letting just any Tom, Dick or Julio obtain a CDL, the roads in TX will be safer.
You could same the same about the folks with regular drivers license, some of them should not even drive! Drove a truck for 40 years (retired now) and never had a serious accident, got rear ended by a couple of 4 wheelers on the telephone! There’s bad drivers everywhere!