The Hoosier State on April 1 acted on a recently passed state law and revoked all non-domiciled CDLs for undocumented aliens.
That resulted in "nearly all" non-domiciled CDL drivers losing their licenses.
"Nearly all non-domiciled CDL drivers have lost their CDL privileges with the passage of [state law] HEA 1200," said Greg Dunn, executive director of communications at Indiana's Bureau of Motor Vehicles.
Indiana BMV notified 1,790 drivers by mail on March 16 their license would be revoked in 15 days, on on April 1, the day came, no joke.
Indiana back in July 2025 reported to Overdrive that it, like most other states, had begun issuing a growing number of non-domiciled CDLs -- About 1,900 in 2024, up from just about 130 in 2018.
By September, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration pulled the plug on non-domiciled CDLs for almost every group of non-citizen.
At that time, Indiana fell in line and stopped issuing non-domiciled CDLs, with a tally of about 3,100 such licenses in force, said Dunn.
Since September, that number has dwindled on its own, and now with the 1,790 revoked on April 1, very few non-domiciled CDLs remain in force.
The state law, HEA 1200, that required the purge followed a handful of fatal crashes involving non-domiciled drivers and what Department of Homeland Security described as a "disturbing trend of illegal aliens driving 18 wheelers."
Scenes from Indiana's Amish country after non-domiciled CDL holder Bekzhan Beishekeev of Kyrgyzstan crashed and killed four in early February.
The law required BMV to "revoke an individual's non-domiciled commercial driver's license if the individual no longer possesses the legal status or documentation that was required at the time the individual's non-domiciled commercial driver's license was granted."
Apparently almost all of Indiana's non-domiciled CDL holders failed that test.
The bill further required BMV to investigate any reports of when a non-domiciled CDL holder's documents may have lapsed. Additionally, BMV must now periodically consult with DHS to see if any non-domiciled CDL holders may be subject to revocation.
On March 16, the same day BMV sent out letters of notice, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's Final Rule essentially banning non-domiciled CDLs took effect.
At the Mid-America Trucking Show in Lousiville, Kentucky, in March, federal regulators talked at length about the move to ban non-citizen drivers, with Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy even going as far as to say the capacity purge of up to 200,000 drivers would likely drive up rates.
On Twitter, Duffy praised Indiana Governor Mike Braun for signing the law.
