The federal government is moving forward with a plan to let teenagers age 18 to 20 drive big rigs in a test program designed to ease driver shortages. Currently, truckers must be at least 21 to cross state lines.
FILE - Trucks line up to enter a Port of Oakland shipping terminal on Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2021, in Oakland, Calif. The federal government is moving forward with a plan to let teenagers drive big rigs from state to state in a test program. Currently, truckers who cross state lines have to be at least 21 years old, but an apprenticeship program required by Congress to help ease supply chain backlogs would let 18-to-20-year-old truckers drive outside their home states.
DETROIT — The federal government is moving forward with a plan to let teenagers drive big rigs from state to state in a test program. The pilot program, detailed Thursday in a proposed regulation from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, would screen the teens, barring any with driving-while-impaired violations or traffic tickets for causing a crash.
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