New York Lost $73.5M — Non-Domiciled CDLs

New York just lost $73.5 million in federal highway funding after FMCSA found the state issued thousands of non-domiciled CDLs in violation of federal law. A July 2025 audit revealed a 53%+ failure rate across 200 sampled records — licenses issued with the wrong expiration dates, based on expired documents, or with no lawful presence verification at all. If you run a fleet and have drivers holding non-domiciled CDLs, especially from New York, this is a live driver qualification file problem. In this video, we break down what FMCSA found, what the February 2026 Non-Domiciled CDL Final Rule requires, and the exact steps carriers must take now — including pulling MVRs, verifying CDL expiration dates against work authorization, and documenting findings in your DQ files. New York is not alone: California, Illinois, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania have all faced federal scrutiny over the same issue. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔗 LINKS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📰 Full Article: https://trucksafe.com/post/new-york-c... 🎓 Trucksafe Academy: https://trucksafe.com/academy 📧 Newsletter: https://trucksafe.com/subscribe 🌐 Website: https://trucksafe.com 💼 Compliance+: https://trucksafe.com/complianceplus 🎯 Fleet Compliance Bootcamp: https://trucksafe.com/bootcamp 📺 Trucksafe LIVE!: https://trucksafe.com/live 📱 YouTube:    / @trucksafe   #TrucksafeConsulting #DOTCompliance #DriverQualification #NonDomiciledCDL #FMCSACompliance #NewYorkCDL #MotorCarrierCompliance #TruckingCompliance #CDLVerification #FleetSafety