he USPS, the US Postal Service, has officially announced that it will begin requiring contractors to remove drivers with non-domiciled CDLs from the lines.
We are not talking about drivers hired by the USPS, but about CDL contracting companies and individual contractors who transport mail daily between distribution centers. That’s about 55,000 flights a day and 2 billion miles a year.
The USPS will require contractors to remove drivers with a non-domiciled CDL if they have not been checked by the US Postal Inspection Service. Please note that the decision was made after the relevant FMCSA rule was frozen by a federal judge.
The USPS, for its part, argues that this has nothing to do with the Trump Administration’s immigration policy, but only a matter of road safety.
According to the US Department of Transportation, hundreds of thousands of CDLs were issued with violations. However, a federal judge temporarily suspended the FMCSA rule on non-domicile CDLs, stating that a direct link between the country of origin and the accident has not been proven.
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