When Division of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy was first chosen to steer the division, he bought reward for his work serving to to construct infrastructure throughout his time in Congress, nevertheless it seems he has way more hands-on expertise with the world of business transportation.
„Secretary Duffy held a CDL for roughly 30 years,“ a DOT spokesperson informed Overdrive.
Overdrive wasn’t in a position to get any additional particulars on Duffy’s CDL or any truck driving work he did or did not do, however Duffy, now 53, should have gotten his CDL when he was fairly younger.
His DOT biography says Duffy „comes from an extended line of lumberjacks, who helped construct his beloved state of Wisconsin, and was a world-champion lumberjack athlete.“ Certainly Duffy holds a number of titles in pace climbing lumber poles and log rolling, the place two rivals stand on both facet of a floating log and see who can keep on high the longest.
Perhaps Duffy hauled logs in his native Hayward, Wisconsin.
Would possibly he title a fellow CDL holder to helm an important company throughout the division?
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Time will inform on the FMCSA administrator entrance. Duffy, who has been in workplace for lower than two months, hasn’t but totally had time to implement his trucking agenda. On the identical day the Senate confirmed him, one of many deadliest aircraft crashes in years occurred in Washington, D.C.
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The DOT beneath Duffy has made some progress in direction of setting a trucking agenda, although, appointing Jesse Elison, former counsel on the Bennet Household of Firms and the brand new Chief Authorized Counsel at Federal Motor Service Security Administration, and Adrienne Camire, former Chief Counsel on the Federal Freeway Administration, who will now function the Senior Advisor to the Administrator at FMCSA.
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Final week, Duffy swore in a brand new batch of FMCSA border inspectors, who „are stationed alongside the US/Mexico border making certain compliance with FMCSA mandates associated to worldwide truck and bus security,“ in response to FMCSA.
Duffy’s DOT has additionally operated towards a backdrop of President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s Division of Authorities Effectivity efforts.
DOT workers, together with these on the FMCSA, not too long ago acquired a „pulse test“ e-mail from Musk’s DOGE workplace asking them to relay 5 issues they’d accomplished within the final week.
Total, a DOT spokesperson mentioned it stood prepared to extend effectivity consistent with DOGE’s objectives.
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„USDOT and FMCSA are dedicated to serving the American individuals on the highest and most effective customary – together with the execution of FMCSA’s mission to scale back crashes, accidents and fatalities involving giant vehicles and buses on the nation’s roadways,“ the spokesperson mentioned.
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