{"id":121611,"date":"2025-06-03T13:33:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T21:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/06\/03\/dot-combines-deregulation-crackdown-on-truckers-english-skills-more-highway-stops-lawyers-say\/"},"modified":"2025-06-03T13:33:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T21:33:12","slug":"dot-combines-deregulation-crackdown-on-truckers-english-skills-more-highway-stops-lawyers-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/06\/03\/dot-combines-deregulation-crackdown-on-truckers-english-skills-more-highway-stops-lawyers-say\/","title":{"rendered":"DOT Combines Deregulation, Crackdown on Truckers’ English Skills, More Highway Stops, Lawyers Say"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cI think many people in the transportation and logistics industry were very pleased at the outset of this administration with the idea that enforcement may be more driven by common sense than by strict technical compliance, said Jonathan Todd, a partner at Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aranoff. \u201cBut there are some pockets of increased enforcement.<\/p>\n

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While U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has promised broad deregulation across the department, the Trump administration is poised to increase enforcement of English language requirements for truck drivers and encourage traffic enforcement on state highways, regulator attorneys said this week.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Duffy released a list<\/a> of 52 deregulatory actions across the agency Thursday, removing outdated and duplicative rules related to the commercial trucking industry, federal highways and traffic safety, said McCarter & English partner Ronald Liebman. Many of these actions were already in motion during the Biden administration, Liebman added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cI think many people in the transportation and logistics industry were very pleased at the outset of this administration with the idea that enforcement may be more driven by common sense than by strict technical compliance, said Jonathan Todd, a partner at Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aranoff. \u201cBut there are some pockets of increased enforcement. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":121612,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/legal-news-ibUB5C.jpeg?fit=767%2C633&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}