MIAMI, Fla. — If you or anybody driving for you winds up being tailgated or otherwise irritated by lousy truck drivers while going through the Sunshine State, don’t be surprised.

There’s more than a few untrained tractor-trailer drivers at work here.
Miami cops have just busted a local man for distributing about 200 fake driver-qualification certificates.

According to the Miami Herald, the man, a sergeant with the Army National Guard was in possession of military-issued vouchers that excuse drivers from taking the state of Florida’s commercial vehicle competency exam. The man was selling the vouchers for $4,300 each.

Steven Baez has pleaded guilty to the scam and will be sentenced later this month. And now the police are concentrating on tracking down the drivers who purchased the vouchers.

According to the Herald, the U.S. Army issues vouchers to prove the bearer was trained to drive heavy equipment in the military. It exempts them from civilian training.

Most, if not all, of the people to whom Baez sold vouchers, had no military service and some had already flunked their state trucker’s exams.

So far, the police have taken more than 40 of the voucher purchasers off the road.

— from the Miami Herald