Highway safety is a basic assurance every American relies on each time they merge onto an interstate. But that trust has been shaken, as recent catastrophic crashes involving unqualified or improperly licensed truck drivers have drawn national attention. The lives of innocent motorists have been lost in multiple preventable accidents from California to Florida and beyond.

The public is paying attention, and so is the federal government, which is why we applaud the Department of Transportation’s nationwide crackdown on commercial driver’s license mills and noncompliant training programs. Federal regulators recently revealed that thousands of schools may be operating in violation of safety and training requirements, with over 3,000 programs facing possible removal from the national registry unless they can prove they meet federal standards.

This national enforcement surge would not have been possible without the leadership of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Administrator Derek Barrs. Under their direction, the Transportation Department deployed hundreds of FMCSA investigators who conducted more than 1,500 random, boots-on-the-ground audits of training providers across the country, the most sweeping CDL training compliance action in federal history. Their........

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