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The federal Transportation Department says more than 550 commercial driving schools in the U.S. that train truckers and bus drivers must close after investigators found they employed unqualified instructors, failed to adequately test students and other safety issues. The department plans to announce this latest move to improve safety in the trucking industry later Wednesday. And unlike the previous action last fall to decertify up to 7,500 schools that included many defunct operations, this is focused on active schools with significant shortcomings. The department has been aggressively going after states that handed out commercial driver’s licenses to immigrants who shouldn’t have qualified for them ever since a fatal crash in Florida in August.
