News Summary

• U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy ordered more than 550 commercial driving schools to close after discovering numerous violations of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s safety standards.
• California agreed to cancel 17,000 of them by January 5, 2026, but later extended the deadline to March 6 without federal approval.
• Meanwhile, advocacy groups filed a class-action lawsuit on behalf of 20,000 affected drivers.
• California found itself pressed between a federal government threatening its entire CDL infrastructure on one side and advocacy groups demanding it protect drivers’ rights on the other.