Earlier this month, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced that carriers will be given access to the Motor Carrier Management Information System (MCMIS) database used by roadside inspectors and police to check on drivers. TruckingInfo reports that trucking companies will be able to purchase reports with the MCMIS data on individual drivers beginning in December, which will give carriers much more information that they currently have access to, providing details on accident reports and even logbook violations. While trucking companies consider this to be great news, drivers have reason to be wary.
Cause For Concern
Drivers already know the potentially career-ending trouble that can be caused by false information on DAC reports. MCMIS reports will be another potential source of erroneous information that needs to be monitored and fixed.
Potential Upsides
Details are still scarce, but MCMIS reports will likely differ from DAC Reports in that MCMIS reports contain more information on accidents and violations as recorded by government workers, instead of the often biased information placed by companies on DAC reports.
Trucking companies will need the driver’s permission in order to pull a MCMIS report, but drivers can expect that this screening will become a standard pre-employment check, effectively making their consent a requirement for getting hired.
Derrick Belton says
how will adriver be able to get this personal report.
admin says
A third-party company will be responsible for pulling information from the MCMIS database into reports. Details about how to obtain your own report are not yet available, but we’ll write a guide when we have that information.
Michael Galde says
this sounds like one more way for the trucking co’s abuse drivers.
big al says
the ins get more stuff to keep the outs in there place
mike says
I feel a trucking CO. should only be given the fact sheet. They should not be able to modify or write there opinions. The DAC report of opinions should be outlawed. The only thing DAC reports do is screw up the economy, keeping good drivers off the road. An employer should have to give a written and signed reference and the driver should be mailed a copy at the same time.