{"id":522846,"date":"2026-08-31T13:47:40","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T17:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/?p=522846"},"modified":"2026-08-31T13:47:46","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T17:47:46","slug":"trump-administration-shuts-down-270-truck-driving-schools-over-alleged-licensing-violations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/international\/trump-administration-shuts-down-270-truck-driving-schools-over-alleged-licensing-violations\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump administration shuts down 270 truck driving schools over alleged licensing violations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Trump administration is forcing the closure of <strong>270 truck-driving schools<\/strong> accused of improperly issuing commercial driver\u2019s licenses, according to Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Duffy said <strong>110 schools were shut down today<\/strong> after authorities identified around <strong>5,000 violations related to English-language proficiency<\/strong>. Another <strong>160 schools<\/strong> are being closed over issues including inadequate facilities and unlicensed instructors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One school reportedly told inspectors that its \u201cclassroom\u201d was a school bus parked in the backyard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Duffy also said that <strong>10 skills evaluators had issued more than 2,000 commercial driver\u2019s licenses to people who allegedly could not speak English<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump administration is forcing the closure of 270 truck-driving schools accused of improperly issuing commercial driver\u2019s licenses, according to Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy. Duffy said 110 schools were shut down today after authorities identified around 5,000 violations related to English-language proficiency. Another 160 schools are being closed over issues including inadequate facilities and unlicensed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":522847,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[95,44549],"tags":[611,40230],"class_list":["post-522846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-international","category-new-york","tag-deultimominuto","tag-united-states"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-2c10","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/08\/images-9.jpeg","dum_api":{"author_name":"Edith B\u00e1ez","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/08\/cropped-WhatsApp-Image-2026-08-11-at-11.09.56-AM-96x96.jpeg","categories_name":["International","New York"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/08\/images-9.jpeg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/522847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}