Stripped Gears: The Hidden Costs of America’s Trucking School Purge
Nearly 3,000 CDL training centers were shut down overnight. What happens next could collapse the supply chain from the inside out.
On November 30, 2025, the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) announced, almost quietly, that it had removed nearly 3,000 truck driver training providers from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s (FMCSA) Training Provider Registry. The official rationale is noncompliance with federal standards. However, the scale — thousands of provider…
