The urging comes following a sting operation in which the owners of Truck Driver Placement – David Luck and Arthur Hammonds – were arrested and charged with unlawful issuance of a driver’s license and organized schemes to defraud.
Officials say as many as 1,200 drivers could unknowingly be driving around with fraudulent CDLs and may need to be retested. Most of those drivers should receive notices from the Highway Patrol.
The Jacksonville Times-Union reported that Luck and
However, undercover operatives working for the State Attorney’s office and the Highway Patrol found that the test was little more than a drive around the block.
Assistant state attorney Steve Siegel told The Times-Union one investigator even failed the test and was still issued a certificate by the company.
This isn’t the first time
Those arrests resulted from a five-month investigation that has
implicated a number of driver’s license examiners, as well as illegal
immigrants using the service to cross into the