Strategy #50
Establishing Identification of Individuals with Commercial Driver's Licenses
Use technology to achieve consistency for establishing one license, one record, and one identity for individuals who hold a commercial driver’s license.
Background
Currently, commercial drivers can purchase fraudulent or duplicate driver’s licenses. Additionally, some commercial drivers in good standing are selling their “identities” and good records to drivers who do not meet commercial driver’s license requirements. These practices circumvent the intent of establishing standards for commercial drivers.
Actions
- Support the development of technology that would facilitate capturing and sharing viable information, such as fingerprints, and allow the digital transfer of such data for database verification.
- Support sharing this information among states.
- Support enabling legislation if necessary.
Benefits
- Reduce or eliminate the possibility of drivers whose commercial driver’s licenses have been suspended or revoked in one state from acquiring a license in another.
- Reduce or eliminate the practice of selling “identities” to drivers who do not meet criteria to obtain a commercial driver’s license.
- Reduce or eliminate the number of drivers who hold multiple valid commercial driver’s licenses to use in various states/situations.
- Improve safety by removing drivers who are not qualified to drive commercial vehicles.
- Verify that a licensed presenter is indeed the authorized license holder.
Other Considerations
- Cost of the technology.
- Increased skills, expertise and training for personnel to support and operate.
- Accuracy and reliability of technology.
- Constitutional requirements.