Finally, actual action against CDL mills!

This tells you everything you need to know:

"109 training providers voluntarily removed themselves from the Training Provider Registry upon hearing investigators were on the way."

 

Hope they still investigate them.

 

Sadly as much as id like to think otherwise. Nothing will happen to them long term. Short term you may see a small handful of token arrests. Maybe 1 or 2 high profile ones to stick onto a stake and parade around. Meanwhile the rest are going to go to ground and wait till trump is out of office and go back to business as usual the second he is gone. Likely even worse then before as companys have gotten used to these "drivers" running at barely enough of a profit to even keep fuel in the tanks and will be pissed they had to pay anything near a profitable rate.and happy to hire anyone who is willing to drive at $0.01 a mile.

 

Catching the first flight back to Hakscamastan.

 

The press release reads like a massive enforcement effort is underway and is already showing results. When you understand the industry, it becomes both less impressive and harder to believe.

I say harder to believe because the press release says "300 investigators across 50 states to conduct over 1,400 sting operations". FMCSA only has about 1,500 total employees, so who are these investigators, what are they normally doing, and how long is this enforcement pace planned for/can be maintained? Secondly - how thorough are these 'investigations'? In less than a day, the investigators were able to vet the instructors, evaluate how the curriculum is being enacted, and discover fraudulent records. It can be done, particularly when one is looking for any kind of reason, but it's a pretty loose sieve that will let a lot of chafe through with the wheat. But I notice no names were named, no bright line drawn between a major accident or any of the ELP violations from last fall, no mention of arrests for fraud - it gives me pause. Let me know when Titan Trucking School - Best CDL School In Minnesota and HABHAB TRUCKING SCHOOL 615-578-0636 get shut down. The only difference between https://www.eldt.com/ and the TTR practice tests is one is free and the other costs money and you have to watch a 'training video' between every test attempt.

Now let's look at the bigger picture. There are over 150,000 'qualified' ELDT providers in the country. There are currently over 6,000 ELDT providers listed as 'removed' between September 2025 and 1/14/2026, most are 'involuntary'. That makes the 500 "notices of proposed removal" seem less impressive. Most of the involuntary removals are for entities that haven't processed any student paperwork in some time or have missed required fillings - ie providers that are no longer providing. That makes me think a large portion of the 100 who 'voluntarily removed themselves' did so because they weren't in business any more. Technically, the City of Green Bay, Green Bay Area Schools, and Brown County are all ELDT providers in good standing - none of them actually provide training, they send people to NWTC and FVTC

But what if it's an active CDL mill that gets shut down? No biggie - a new name, a couple of forms, and a check will have them back in business in a few months. The underlying problems with ELDT remain.

I'd love to believe that this is the beginning of a new era of enforced standards, but then I remember the rhetoric around ELDT back in 2019.