Efforts are underway in New York to enable more people to conduct road tests for commercial driver licenses to reduce a long backlog exacerbated by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
The New York State Department of Motor Vehicles is slated to convene a public hearing Jan. 26 soliciting comments on Gov. Kathy Hochul’s new plan to address a critical shortage of truck and bus drivers. The goal is to expand road-test availability to qualified third parties and open testing to new non-DMV locations in the state, such as trucking schools.