Assessment of Commercial Driver's License (CDL) Holders' Traffic Violations, Convictions, and Suspensions

The study tracked the final disposition of a citation from issuance in several different States. This process determined if a major or serious traffic offense for a CDL holder resulted in a conviction, an exoneration, a suspension, or a non-suspension. The research also identified the process gaps when a conviction occurred that failed to result in the appropriate disqualification or suspension of a driver’s CDL. Process gaps could have included a court’s failure to transmit a disqualified or suspended CDL to the State Driver Licensing Agency (SDLA) or a SDLA’s failure to disqualify or suspend the CDL when required. The study investigated why courts were not promptly or accurately reporting convictions (related to major and serious traffic offenses) of CDL holders.

• Record URL:
  https://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/research-and-analysis/research/assessment-commercial-driver%E2%80%99s-license-cdl-holders%E2%80%99-traffic

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Completed
• Funding: $519,008.15
• Contract Numbers:

  DTMC7514D00009L-7001

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Managing Organizations:

  Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Project Managers:

  Michel, Nicole

• Performing Organizations:

  TransAnalytics, LLC

  Quakertown, PA  United States  18951

  Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute

  North Dakota State University
  1320 Albrecht Boulevard
  Fargo, ND  United States  581052

  Leidos

  11951 Freedom Drive
  Reston, Virginia  United States  20190
• Start Date: 20140000
• Expected Completion Date: 20160629
• Actual Completion Date: 20170106

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Bus drivers; Commercial drivers; Methodology; Offenders; Safety; Suspensions; Traffic; Traffic law enforcement; Truck drivers
• Identifier Terms: Commercial Driver'S License Program
• Subject Areas: Freight Transportation; Highways; Law; Public Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01594537
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
• Contract Numbers: DTMC7514D00009L-7001
• Files: RIP, USDOT
• Created Date: Mar 24 2016 2:29PM