Oklahoma Corporation Commissioners will take up more issues concerning motor carrier enforcement responsibilities when they hold a regular meeting on Wednesday.
Proposed changes were raised during the commission’s first hearing held last week into a Notice of Inquiry into “Motor Carrier Enforcement Practices and Efficiencies.”
It was the agency’s Motor Carrier Enforcement officers who assisted ICE agents and the Highway Patrol last week in the arrests of 130 illegal commercial truckers caught in an operation at the Port of Entry at Sayre in western Oklahoma.
Gov. Kevin Stitt’s office issued an announcement indicating the operation handled by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Oklahoma Highway Patrol (OHP) targeted enforcement along I-40 in western Oklahoma with numerous commercial truck drivers utilizing licensures issued by sanctuary states from multiple countries, including India, Uzbekistan, China, Russia, Georgia, Turkey, Tajikistan, Ukraine, and Mauritania.
OHP says, one license listed “No Name Given.”
The governor made it clear such licenses won’t pass the test in Oklahoma and neither will drivers holding such licenses.
“If New York wants to hand out CDLs to illegal immigrants with ‘No Name Given,’ that’s on them. The moment they cross into Oklahoma, they answer to our laws,” said Governor Stitt. “I want to thank our troopers and ICE officials for their hard work. This is about keeping Oklahomans safe.”
The joint operation had the support of the Corporation Commissioners who issued statements on Monday revealing the recent arrests.
“Oklahomans deserve safe highways,” said Corporation Commission Chair Kim David. “We appreciate the opportunity to assist ICE and DPS Troop S by removing non-compliant and dangerous drivers from our roads. By working together as law enforcement partners, we’re reducing risks for every driver.”
Wednesday’s meeting will begin at 1:30 p.m.
I. A. Call to order
B. Announcement concerning public notice
C. Determination of quorum
II. Approval of minutes of prior meeting(s) III. Consideration of and possible vote(s) on proposed or potential orders in cases on the daily signing agenda docket. The Commission may discuss and consider alterations, revisions, or amendments to the proposed or potential orders. (Votes may be taken on individual cases, on the daily signing agenda docket as a whole, or both by individual cases and the remaining docket. The vote on daily signing agenda cases may be combined with the vote on 24-hour signing agenda cases.)
IV. Consideration of and possible vote(s) on proposed or potential orders in cases on attached 24-hour signing agenda docket. The Commission may discuss and consider alterations, revisions, or amendments to the proposed or potential orders. (Votes may be taken on individual cases on the 24-hour signing agenda docket as a whole, or both by individual cases and the remaining docket.)
V. Possible public comment, discussion and consideration of issues presented and comments received in Case No. GD2025-000003, In re: Inquiry of the Oklahoma Corporation Commission to Examine Motor Carrier Enforcement Practices and Efficiencies Under the Commission’s Jurisdiction
VI. New business
A. Any matter not known about and which could not have been reasonably foreseen 24 hours before the meeting
B. Possible vote(s) on matters of new business
VII. Adjournment