Third-party Louisiana CDL tester doctored skills tests

rookietrucker · Mar 16, 2010

Third-party Louisiana CDL tester doctored skills tests

A former third-party CDL tester in Louisiana traded positive driving skills test documents for cash bribes for more than a year, and now faces up to five years in prison.

On Feb. 23, Harold G. Stewart pleaded guilty in Federal Court to one count of lying about his falsifying 250 CDL skills tests in 2007 and 2008. Authorities began investigating Stewart after an extremely low number of skills tests were failed.

Rather than properly administer the commercial drivers license skills test as required, Stewart accepted cash payments from various third-party applicants in lieu of administering the test, court documents state.

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rookietrucker · Jun 28, 2010

Louisiana CDL tester sentenced

Harold G. Stewart was sentenced June 17 in U.S. District Court in Baton Rouge, La., to serve five years probation and 25 hours of community service, assessed a $500 fine and ordered to make restitution of $7,316.03 to the State of Louisianas Department of Public Safety for expenses the state incurred to recall and retest the drivers who obtained commercial drivers licenses through Stewart.

Stewart previously pled guilty to making a false statement for his role in the falsification of 250 out of 320 CDL skills tests he conducted. Stewart, a third-party examiner for Stewart Auto Sales & Salvage of Zwolle, was authorized by the state to administer CDL skills tests for CDL driver candidates.

The U.S. Department of Transportations Office of the Inspector General said the investigation began following a state compliance review in which it was discovered Stewart tested a large number of CDL candidates with no failure ratings, which was a fraud indicator. During DOT-OIGs interview of Stewart, he admitted to falsifying the skills test for 250 CDL candidates for which he was paid about $200 per test. The state recalled and retested all 320 CDL drivers.

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