Veterans’ Transition to Trucking Act of 2025
Current understanding
Proposed legislation that would authorize the Department of Veterans Affairs to serve as a state approving agency for multi-state apprenticeship programs, allowing veterans to apply GI Bill and other VA educational assistance benefits toward trucking apprenticeships that operate across state lines. The bill targets a current administrative gap in which multi-state apprenticeships must be individually approved by each state’s approving agency, complicating veteran participation in interstate trucking training pipelines. Status: introduced.
Evidence log
- 2025-12-01 — DRIVE-SAFE Act: cross-connection with drive-safe-act: Both bills expand pathways into interstate commercial trucking, with DRIVE-SAFE focusing on under-21 apprentices and the Veterans’ Transition act targeting military-to-CDL transition. (novelty: 2)
- 2025-03-06 — Guaranteeing Overtime for Truckers Act: cross-connection with guaranteeing-overtime-for-truckers-act: Both bills target the trucking labor pipeline — one via wage protections, the other via workforce entry pathways. (novelty: 2)