New Delhi, Aug. 5 -- The US government has cancelled the commercial truck driver licences (CDLs) of around 28,000 non-citizens as it launched an initiative to replace these drivers with US military veterans.

This programme was confirmed by White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt on Tuesday.

The new campaign was launched last week and will promote programs that allow veterans with experience driving large vehicles to skip the required skill tests to obtain a commercial driver's licence, Breitbart.com reported.

The report said that federal officials have worked in tandem with their state counterparts to cancel the licences of non-citizen truck drivers who are not proficient in either reading or speaking English.

The US Transportati...