The changes announced last Friday by the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles follow a crackdown on non-English speaking commercial truck drivers after a tragic crash last year.

PolitiFact found no conclusive, large-scale studies measuring whether people who take driving exams in a foreign language pose a higher risk on the road. The Florida Department of Highway Safety and ...

FLORIDA, USA — Driver's license exams in Florida will begin being administered only in English beginning in February, the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles announced Friday.

WLRN has partnered with PolitiFact to fact-check Florida politicians. The Pulitzer Prize-winning team seeks to present the true facts, unaffected by agenda or biases. In August 2025, a tractor-trailer ...

Effective February 6, 2026, the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles now requires all driver's license exams to be administered exclusively in English. The policy removes all ...

In August 2025, a tractor-trailer driver attempted to make an illegal U-turn on Florida’s Turnpike, killing three people. The driver, Harjinder Singh, an immigrant in the U.S. illegally who received ...

Florida officials said all driver’s license exams will be administered exclusively in English — without the option of an interpreter or translator — starting Feb. 6. State officials who favor the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles announced Friday afternoon it would soon issue all driver license ...

The Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles announced Jan. 30 it would soon issue all driver license exams in English only. Previously, knowledge exams for most non-commercial driver ...