FMCSA bans Canadian truck driver from operating in the U.S.
The U.S. Department of Transportation’sFederal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has declared Ontario, Canada-licensed truck driver Inderjit Singh Gill to be an imminent hazard to public safety, prohibiting him from operating any commercial motor vehicle in the United States. Gill, an Ontario, Canada Class A commercial driver’s license (CDL) holder, was served the FMCSA order on March 9, 2016.
On four separate occasions over the course of four days in March 2016, Gill was ordered out-of-service by state roadside safety inspectors for falsifying records of duty status and egregiously violating hours of service limitations designed to prevent fatigued driving. In each of the first three instances, Gill willfully disregarded the out-of-service order and continued operating his commercial truck – including surreptitiously removing the vehicle from a storage facility where it had been towed.