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Aug 12, 2009

CDL convictions * USA - Too much lag time in reporting

The OIG found that neither FMCSA nor AAMVA has completely lived up to its responsibility of securing the conviction data systems on commercial drivers

Washington,DC,USA -The Trucker News Services —11 Aug 2009: -- While some steps have been taken to strengthen the national Commercial Drivers License database, there are still too many holes in the system, letting unsafe drivers continue to be on the road with prior driving convictions, an audit of the Office of Inspector General has found... No. 1, there’s too long a lag time in posting convictions to driver history records, stated the OIG report... Second, it continued, individual states “lag in developing and implementing comprehensive security policies and procedures to better protect DMV systems”... Thirdly, there is no contingency plan to protect the Commercial Driver’s License Information System (CDLIS) and state DMV systems in the event of emergency disruption, the OIG concluded... The Commercial Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1986 directed the Department of Transportation to set minimum standards for licensing, testing, qualification and classification of commercial drivers...

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Jan 21, 2009

License Testing Shutdown * USA - Leaves “thousands” of drivers in limbo

Thousands of truckers may soon be traveling U.S. highways on expired CDLs without even knowing it

TENN,USA -Land Line Magazine, by Charlie Morasch -January 20, 2009: -- Drivers who obtained a commercial driver’s license through an unnamed third-party tester in Tennessee between May 2005 and January 2008 may be required to do a complete retest, according to the Tennessee Department of Safety... Tennessee has mailed letters to the approximately 1,300 CDL-holders in that state who obtained CDLs from the third-party tester – one the state declines to name – between May 2005 and January 2008, said Laura McPherson, a spokesman for the Tennessee Department of Safety... The department has a breakdown of affected drivers by state, McPherson said, including about 1,200 from Georgia and likely at least 5,000 nationally who were issued CDLs from the third-party tester during that 32-month span...

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