It all starts with a T-shirt—with a hole cut into it. First Coast News obtained photos and video exclusively, and they’re tied to a shocking cheating scheme happening in Jacksonville. Investigators say people have been rigging their way into commercial driver’s licenses, putting everyone on Florida highways at risk.
On August 12, a truck driver in South Florida was arrested after a crash that killed three people. The Florida Department of Transportation reported that the driver made an illegal U-turn across a median despite clear signage stating “Official Use Only – No U Turn.” DOT testing showed he could not identify three out of four road signs.
Police in New Mexico have released body cam footage showing the driver, from India, spoke in broken English during a traffic stop. The driver, Harjinder Singh, is charged in Florida with three count of vehicular homicide.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis called the situation alarming:
“They did an English test and he failed abysmally… not even close. But how ridiculous is it for someone to get a commercial driver’s license and not understand the language of this country and not understand road signs?”
