Stop Wasting Time On Bad Customers | Episode 356

So did you happen to catch Sean Duffy's press conference on Monday this week about like all the.

So clearly, our industry has made it into the public spotlight.

Between the 60 Minutes episode on Chameleon Carriers and Super Ego and all this stuff, and really just a lot of the lobbying and folks talking to their... congressional leadership and all that.

So they had a big press conference.

Obviously, enforcement's been big on English language proficiency and cracking down on non-domiciled CDLs and unsafe carriers, things like that.

So some of the stats that came out of his press conference... is that 28,000 drivers were put out of service for English proficiency violations.

30,000 improperly issued CDLs were revoked or canceled.

8,000 CDL training providers were removed from FMCSA's registry.

8,000? I was like, because I

saw 110.

What was that? So 110 is the

driving schools.

8,000 is the CDL training provider.

So when you go to take your test to get your CDL, there's a written test, and then there's actually the driving portion of it.

That is completely separate from the driving school.

But 110 additional driving schools were removed immediately in the latest action.

160 additional schools have been targeted for possible removal.

Nearly 400 investigations launched across 40 states.

A nationwide audit of third-party CDL testers is underway.

There's a crackdown expanding into fraud, fake identities, shell carriers, visa violations, and illegal employment.

And now the list of agencies involved includes the DOT, so Department of Transportation, the Department of Homeland Security, Department of Justice, the FBI, ICE, and HSI, which is the Homeland Security Investigations Office.

Five years ago, this would have never we were never making national news and headlines, but the the current administration has has taken a. I guess taking the opportunity to really lean in on this, so and I think it's I mean, you know.

At the end of the day, oh, and his big takeaway was like, drivers are now across the board, overly generalizing it, but are now making and earning a way more appropriate wage for the work that they're doing.

So obviously, we knew that with an excess amount of capacity in years past, rates were kind of just hit a bottom floor and just held there for years.

It felt like eons that rates...

So did you happen to catch Sean Duffy's press conference on Monday this week about like all the.

So clearly, our industry has made it into the public spotlight.

Between the 60 Minutes episode on Chameleon Carriers and Super Ego and all this stuff, and really just a lot of the lobbying and folks talking to their... congressional leadership and all that.

So they had a big press conference.

Obviously, enforcement's been big on English language proficiency and cracking down on non-domiciled CDLs and unsafe carriers, things like that.

So some of the stats that came out of his press conference... is that 28,000 drivers were put out of service for English proficiency violations.

30,000 improperly issued CDLs were revoked or canceled.

8,000 CDL training providers were removed from FMCSA's registry.

8,000? I was like, because I

saw 110.

What was that? So 110 is the

driving schools.

8,000 is the CDL training provider.

So when you go to take your test to get your CDL, there's a written test, and then there's actually the driving portion of it.

That is completely separate from the driving school.

But 110 additional driving schools were removed immediately in the latest action.

160 additional schools have been targeted for possible removal.

Nearly 400 investigations launched across 40 states.

A nationwide audit of third-party CDL testers is underway.

There's a crackdown expanding into fraud, fake identities, shell carriers, visa violations, and illegal employment.

And now the list of agencies involved includes the DOT, so Department of Transportation, the Department of Homeland Security, Department of Justice, the FBI, ICE, and HSI, which is the Homeland Security Investigations Office.

Five years ago, this would have never we were never making national news and headlines, but the the current administration has has taken a. I guess taking the opportunity to really lean in on this, so and I think it's I mean, you know.

At the end of the day, oh, and his big takeaway was like, drivers are now across the board, overly generalizing it, but are now making and earning a way more appropriate wage for the work that they're doing.

So obviously, we knew that with an excess amount of capacity in years past, rates were kind of just hit a bottom floor and just held there for years.

It felt like eons that rates...