{"id":1373,"date":"2025-10-20T20:16:27","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T20:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/?p=1373"},"modified":"2025-10-27T08:57:34","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T08:57:34","slug":"duffy-responds-to-video-of-trucker-driving-wrong-direction-on-freeway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/20\/duffy-responds-to-video-of-trucker-driving-wrong-direction-on-freeway\/","title":{"rendered":"Duffy responds to video of trucker driving wrong direction on freeway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy raised concern about &#8220;foreign truck drivers not being able to understand the rules&#8221; in response to a viral video showing a truck going the wrong direction on a freeway.<\/p>\n<p>Duffy <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SecDuffy\/status\/1979701617906586058\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">shared a video<\/a> on social platform X over the weekend showing an English-speaking truck driver confronting another trucker going the wrong direction. In the video, the other driver can be heard expressing confusion before apologizing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy team has reached out to the trucker who recorded this chilling video. He did the right thing reporting the trucker driving the wrong way to police. This easily could have ended in disaster,\u201d Duffy posted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cForeign truck drivers not being able to understand the rules of our roads is a crisis that is putting lives in danger,\u201d the secretary continued. \u201c@USDOT is doing the work to fix it and SAVE LIVES!\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"sailthru_shortcode\">\n<div class=\"sailthru-signup-widget sailthru-signup-display-area sailthru-signup-hill-position-main\">\n\t\t<span class=\"sailthru-signup-widget-close\"><a href=\"#sailthru-signup-widget\">Close<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"sailthru_form\">\n<div class=\"sailthru-signup-success-message\">\n<div class=\"icon\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"thanks\">Thank you for signing up!<\/p>\n<p class=\"watch\">Subscribe to more newsletters <a href=\"http:\/\/nxslink.thehill.com\/join\/7aa\/signup\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"sailthru-subscribe-grid-display\">\n<div class=\"sailthru-signup-display-message-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"sailthru-signup-display-logo\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"sailthru-signup-display-message\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span>The latest in politics and policy.<br \/>\nDirect to your inbox.<br \/>\nSign up for the Evening Report newsletter<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"sailthru_form_input form-group\">\n<div class=\"sailthru-add-subscriber-errors\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<span class=\"input-group-btn\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<button class=\"sailthru-signup-display-button\" type=\"submit\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSubscribe<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/button><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\tif ( window.checkSizeClasses &amp;&amp; window.checkSizeClasses instanceof Function) {<br \/>\n\t\t\t\twindow.checkSizeClasses();<br \/>\n\t\t\t}<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The video, captured on a dash camera, shows the second trucker going the wrong direction near a toll plaza while his hazard lights flash.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou have got to be f\u2011\u2011\u2011ing kidding me. I mean, what the f\u2011\u2011\u2011 are \u2014 who? What?\u201d the man who recorded the incident is heard saying aloud to himself as he pulled over near the other truck, which approached slowly going the opposite direction.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat are you doing?\u201d the first trucker asked the other driver, who responded in broken English.<\/p>\n<p>The other trucker signaled he was planning to make a U-turn to drive on the other side.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet me ask you a question, man. You are going the wrong way down the freeway. You are committing a felony right now,\u201d the first trucker said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOK. What [am I] doing, sir?\u201d the other trucker asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, one, why the f\u2011\u2011\u2011 are you going the wrong way down the freeway?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The other driver gave an unintelligible response, before apologizing and appearing to elaborate on why he was going the wrong direction. He then indicated he planned to turn around.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Un f\u2011\u2011\u2011ing real,&#8221; the first driver says aloud to himself while pulling away.<\/p>\n<p>NewsNation, The Hill&#8217;s sister channel, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsnationnow.com\/us-news\/midwest\/trucker-confronts-wrong-way-driver\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.newsnationnow.com\/us-news\/midwest\/trucker-confronts-wrong-way-driver\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported that the incident<\/a> occurred along the Indiana-Ohio border.<\/p>\n<p>The Hill has reached out to the DOT for further comment.<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration has sought to crack down on drivers who don&#8217;t speak English. President Trump signed an <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/5271893-trump-executive-order-truck-drivers-speak-english\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/5271893-trump-executive-order-truck-drivers-speak-english\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">executive order<\/a> in April requiring commercial truck drivers in the U.S. to be proficient in English.<\/p>\n<p>The DOT <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/transportation\/5557644-duffy-pulls-40m-california-english-only-trucker-rule\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/transportation\/5557644-duffy-pulls-40m-california-english-only-trucker-rule\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">announced last week<\/a> it would also withhold more than $40 million in federal highway safety funds from California over the state failing to comply with English proficiency guidelines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy raised concern about &#8220;foreign truck drivers not being able to understand the rules&#8221; in ...<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1375,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1374,"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373\/revisions\/1374"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}