Tickets?

You can get a 7 year MVR to see if the 100 is gone. Obviously, the 20 over will still be on it and will probably cause you some problems for a while. If either was written as reckless driving, they may be on your DAC Report, depending on the state and how it writes it up? Virginia would report it as reckless driving (either of them). You can get a copy of your DAC Report for free at www.hireright.com. If you did not have a cdl for either of them, they may not show up on your DAC, even if they were reckless driving? Id make sure you tell potential employers about any that you find on your record because they will find it out anyway, then theyd probably toss your app for not telling them?

 

My MVR from california has a few minor tickets, and most of them can be purged 3 years post conviction, but since I converted to a CDL, they must remain for 5 years...

 

Tim, If it was a true Emergemcy Life/Death scenario...That Cop would have lost his job, And No ticket issued.

Im assuming it wasn't an "emergency"

If he held you there to write a ticket...Nobody was dying or giving birth

 

No doubt, each state has its own rules, in addition to the Federal Rules.

 

Most trucking companies just go back 3 years, some go back 7 so when they obtain a report of 3 or 7 years anything that is 8 years old will not be seen by them. When you move from one state to the other and update your license for your current state, your driving history is usually transferred to the new license (I think for the past 10 years). While the DMV will see the big ticket, the trucking companies very seldom go back that far. Thats how it worked when I moved to TN from Ga anyway- they just transferred what was on my GA License to my TN License. They created that central database that tied all states together in 92 to stop these drivers who would get licenses in several different states. Before that, drivers who got in trouble with points in one state would just go to another state and get a license.

 

The FMCSA does NOT require any checks. It requires the carriers to ask for and the driver to give them a 10 year driving history, but does not say the carrier has to check. FYI the rule where that 10 year driving history is required has no where in it anything that says 3 years. It is simply not there. What some carriers do is want a 3 year general employment history if you are a new hire who has no driving history.

 

Youre right. The 3 year violation history is more of an insurance requirement than anything.