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Advocacy groups seek emergency freeze on CDL cancellations
The demand comes less than a week after a Superior Court allowed CDL holders to reapply immediately after cancellation, ensuring continuity in employment.
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Jeffin T. Kaleekal - Fri, 06, Mar 2026
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Community groups and legal advocates, including the Sikh Coalition, Asian Law Caucus and the Jakara Movement, have approached the California Supreme Court seeking an emergency order to halt the California DMV’s planned commercial driver’s license cancellations set for March 6.
The push comes a week after the Superior Court of California, Alameda County, ordered that the CA-DMV should ensure that CDL holders are able to reapply as soon as their licences get cancelled, ensuring continuity in employment.
“Thousands of drivers are about to lose their livelihoods because of the state’s own mistake—-and that is unacceptable. Drivers are fed up and scared, and we are seeking an emergency order to ensure that drivers can still wake up and do their jobs on March 7,” said Katherine Zhao, senior staff attorney at Asian Law Caucus.
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Zhao added, “These workers did everything the law required of them, yet they’re the ones being punished for a bureaucratic failure they didn’t create. The state cannot rip away people’s licenses first and figure out a fix later. These cancellations must be stopped now.”
Munmeeth Kaur, Sikh Coalition legal director, argued that the truckers deserve "better than the chaos of the last several months."
She added, "We're seeking this order to stop the DMV from forcing thousands of qualified drivers off the road and ensure compliance with the court’s previous order. In short, the DMV should be clarifying their processes and fixing their errors—not inflicting economic hardship on our communities.”
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