Pre-employment Screening Program (PSP) for Drivers is LIVE

Posted on December 17, 2010 by Morgan Adams

In case you missed it the PSP (Pre-employment screening program) is now live. PSP is designed to assist the motor carrier industry in assessing individual operators’ crash and serious safety violation history as a pre-employment condition.

Carriers should be using this program to check on all new drivers. The PSP website is located here. The cost to the company is only $10 per driver report. The PSP system allows motor carriers to search a driver’s history in multiple states. The fee remains $10 regardless of the number of states queried for a driver.

The Pre-Employment Screening Program is a screening tool that allows motor carriers and individual drivers to purchase driving records from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s (FMCSA) Motor Carrier Management Information System (MCMIS). Records are available for 24 hours a day via Web request.

Driver Information Resource records purchased through PSP contain the most recent 5 years of crash data and 3 years of roadside inspection data from the FMCSA MCMIS system on each driver.

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Roadcheck 2010 Over - Be Careful This Week!

Posted on June 16, 2010 by Morgan Adams

Roadcheck 2010 was June 8-10 this year. This is the industry, pre-announced, inspection that causes unsafe truck drivers to take vacations so they don't get inspected. This is true even though the increased inspections still only look at a fraction of the trucks on the road. Now that the inspection is over unsafe truckers will be back on the road, in droves, trying to make up for lost time.

Please be extra careful around trucks the next few weeks.

I personally believe that the 2 week period after Roadcheck is extremely dangerous. I think, if analyzed, the statistics would show an increase in the number of wrecks involving tractor trailers after Roadcheck as unsafe truck drivers returned to the roads. I am aware of no research into this idea and think it should be looked into by the government. If I am right there will be an uptick in wrecks following Roadcheck, and it will prove once and for all that the Roadcheck results (that show that 1 in every 5 trucks has a safety violation), under-counts the real numbers of unsafe trucks and truck drivers on our roads. 

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