Our safety is on the line. We have a serious problem with Commercial Driver’s Licenses (CDL) in Washington, and we need to clean up our act, fast.

Three people were killed last week when a semi-truck driver made an illegal U-turn on the Florida Turnpike, blocking all lanes. A minivan slammed into the trailer, and the driver is now charged with three counts of vehicular homicide.

The driver held two commercial driver’s licenses, and he’s in the country illegally. That alone makes him ineligible for a CDL, yet somehow, he had two. One from California, and another from Washington.

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