Wild Wild West Trucking Industry Hits Find Out

Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy declared on Monday that the “days of a ‘Wild Wild West’ trucking industry are over” amid the Trump administration’s crackdown on unlawful alien drivers.

In a post on X, Duffy responded to an Associated Press report that read, “BREAKING: Nearly 44% of U.S. truck driving schools could close after a federal review found many may be out of compliance with government rules.”

BREAKING: Nearly 44% of U.S. truck driving colleges may close after a federal review discovered many could also be out of compliance with authorities guidelines. https://t.co/VLHKQDT07u

— The Associated Press (@AP) December 1, 2025

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🚨HUGE ALERT🚨 @USDOT is giving THOUSANDS of trucking colleges 30 days to comply with federal guidelines for drivers or they might be compelled to close down.

The days of a “Wild Wild West” trucking industry are over under the Trump administration 🚛 https://t.co/ZRWebpTXij

— Secretary Sean Duffy (@SecDuffy) December 1, 2025

“Huge Alert: US Department of Transportation is giving thousands of trucking schools 30 days to comply with federal rules for drivers, or they may be forced to close down,” Duffy’s post read. 

“The days of a ‘Wild Wild West’ trucking industry are over under the Trump administration,” he added.

Secretary Duffy’s response was fully reverse to the AP story, which appeared to bemoan the closure of the trucking colleges because President Donald Trump and his administration are decided to make our roads safer, reasonably than continue permitting people who cannot read English or perceive our highway indicators to get business licenses.

Here’s a smidge from that AP write-up:

Nearly 44% of the 16,000 truck driving colleges in the U.S. could also be compelled to close if they lose their college students after a review by the federal Transportation Department discovered they might not be complying with authorities necessities.

The Transportation Department said Monday that it plans to revoke the certification of almost 3,000 colleges unless they will comply with training necessities in the next 30 days. The focused colleges must notify college students that their certification is in jeopardy. Another 4,500 colleges are being warned they might face related motion.

“We are reining in illegal and reckless practices that let poorly trained drivers get behind the wheel of semi-trucks and school buses,” Duffy wrote in a assertion posted to the DOT web site.

SEE: Wyoming Sting: ICE Now to Deport 40 Undocumented Truckers

ALSO: ‘It’s a Small World After All’ As ICE Crackdown of illegal Immigrant Truckers Gets Even More Eye-Opening

President Trump’s been attempting to clean up one mess after another in the aftermath of the lethal penalties of former President Joe Biden’s open borders coverage for unlawful aliens during his time in workplace, and this is just another one.

And it is infuriating because it is main to horrible accidents and deaths of harmless people as a consequence of unlawful aliens driving vehicles who should not be.

It’s actually simple: comply with our guidelines or lose your capability to run your business. Period.

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