(NewsNation) — U.S. Department of Transportation Sean Duffy has invited a man who stopped a truck driving in the wrong direction along the Indiana-Ohio border to Washington, D.C.
Trucker Tim O’Friel recorded the moments he pulled over and confronted a fellow trucker who was driving the wrong way on the highway.
“You are going the wrong way down the freeway,” O’Friel tells the wrong-way driver in the video. “You are committing a felony right now.”
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Duffy, who shared the video on Facebook, said the wrong-way driver was “foreign.”
“Foreign truck drivers not being able to understand the rules of our roads is a crisis that is putting lives in danger. The U.S. Department of Transportation is doing the work to fix it and SAVE LIVES!” he said.
O’Friel told NewsNation the video he captured is just a snapshot of the unsafe driving he witnesses.
“The amount of dangerous driving that a lot of these drivers do when they think no one is looking … it’s primarily foreign drivers, or people who don’t respect the law,” he said.
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O’Friel told NewsNation he plans to discuss past legislation that, he believes, has made the industry less safe for drivers and others on the road.
The Transportation Department announced last week it was withholding more than $40 million in federal highway safety funding from California over the state failing to comply with English language proficiency guidelines for commercial drivers.
In April, President Trump signed an executive order requiring commercial truck drivers to be proficient in English, nearly two months after he signed an order designating English as the national language.
