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The Essential Air Service supports more than 170 communities across the U.S. and in Puerto Rico, with Alaska relying most heavily on it.

The department’s plan, released Sept. 30, shows that highway and trucking agencies are among the least affected in a lapse of annual appropriations.

“The process for issuing these licenses is absolutely 100% broken," Sean Duffy said. "It has become a threat to public safety and it is a national emergency that requires action right now.”

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said fatal crashes caused by truck drivers who shouldn’t have had licenses were found in Florida, Texas and Alabama.

The move arrives at a moment when the Department of Transportation is scrutinizing English-language proficiency among commercial drivers.

On a combined federal and state level, year-to-date English-language proficiency violations had reached 3,724 drivers through the end of August. 

The Trump administration plans to allocate the roughly $2.4 billion that was stripped from California’s embattled high-speed rail to other transit projects.

American Trucking Associations is renewing its call for stricter enforcement of federal safety laws in the wake of a fatal truck-involved crash in August.

The U.S. Department of Transportation acts to withhold $50.5 million in federal grants from California, Washington and New Mexico.

An undocumented truck driver who obtained CDLs from two states was involved in a Florida crash that killed three people, prompting a federal investigation.