Well, of course it did — it was a rule promulgated by the Orange Man

Appeals court blocks Trump’s rules to stop illegal immigrants from getting truck driver permits

A federal appeals court put on hold Thursday the Trump administration’s new rules limiting commercial driver’s licenses, saying the Transportation Department cut too many corners in rushing the regulation out the door.

The Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, in a 2-1 decision, said the evidence shows the migrants targeted by the new rule actually have lower fatal accident rates than other drivers, undercutting the government’s justification.

That revelation, plus the hurried nature of the new rule, which was not shared with states in advance, makes it arbitrary and capricious, said Judges Florence Pan and Robert Wilkins, Biden and Obama appointees.

They also said the migrants themselves, as well as the economy, have come to rely on migrant drivers and that taking them off the road “would have public safety by forcing it to replace safer experienced drivers with less-safe new drivers.”

Judge Karen Henderson, a George H.W. Bush appointee, dissented, saying she thought the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration made a good showing of the need for the rule, which she said should have been good enough at this point in the litigation.

The rule at issue limited states’ ability to issue commercial driver’s licenses to people whose addresses were foreign domiciles but who live in the U.S.

The government said those drivers fell into a loophole.

Because much of their driving history exists in their home countries, states struggle to make determinations on whether they should be granted licenses.

Judge Henderson said that made sense, and it was an error for the court to substitute its judgment for the government.

“It should go without saying that our nation’s roadways are safer the fewer people there are operating eighteen-wheelers, buses and delivery trucks with unchecked driving histories,” she wrote.

She said the government also provided examples of five recent fatal crashes — which claimed 12 lives — involving foreign-domiciled commercial drivers. She said an audit of their foreign records might have denied them permits.

Search the web for answers to “why are Indians such bad drivers” and you’ll find literally hundreds of posts, from both natives of India and long term residents, and you get the same answer: complete disregard of traffic laws, no consideration of other drivers and pedestrians (thy’ll drive on sidewalks to avoid stalled traffic) and no demonstration of driving competency required for licensing. Here are just two examples:

Reddit question: What’s wrong with Indian drivers?

One answer:

Indian here. The main reason I feel is a lack of respect for traffic laws unless monetarily penalized. Leaving Apart city roads in many places, road infrastructure has developed a lot in the past decade, with 6 lane superhighways, model roads etc. The latest highways have a speed limit of 120-140 kph since the infrastructure is there to support it. However even then the roads will remain dangerous due to disregard for traffic laws. I'll give some examples of things that are standard in other nations but not in India:

Lane Obedience and sticking to rightmost for fastest and overtaking, leftmost for slowest and trucks

Indicators for switching lanes, for turning some people do use it and some people don't as far as I've seen

Respect for right of way or pedestrians (a huge issue imo)

Overloading of trucks and basically trucks being a nuisance overall

Lack of awareness of road signs and markings

All of this can be fixed by better driving training and license enforcements...almost anyone can get a license with a simple af test or some with none at all. Only a few modern driving test facilities exist as well. So we need better drivers to fix these issues.

Quora:

Why are people driving in India so bad?

Originally Answered: Why are people driving in India so bad?

What i have noticed is that no one uses blinkers for lane change, they dont care about traffic laws and signals, pedestrians dont cross safely ( they just do what they feel like, jaywalking and crossing when signal is green ), if one guy uses blinkers for stopping the car to a side ( people barely use ) immediately starts honking from the cars behind like theres a dog chasing them, overspeeding or going too slow, and the last one is honking for no reason.