How can MVR Monitoring Can Help Protect Your Business?

As a Department of Transportation-regulated business, you are well-accustomed to the process of pulling annual Motor Vehicle Reports (MVRs) for every driver you employ or utilize. Simply put, you must do so to meet federal recordkeeping requirements.

Still this process doesn’t just check a box to ensure your compliance as a motor carrier – it is an important step to make sure that safe, qualified drivers are behind the wheel. This ultimately helps protect our business, your drivers, and other motorists.

The only problem is what happens when one of your drivers gets a DUI or commits a serious traffic or safety violation a day, week, or a month later AFTER you pull their annual report?

Or if their license has been suspended for another significant offense? It can be difficult to keep track of all your drivers, all of the time. And unless they voluntarily come clean with the new information on the infraction or violations, you will be in the dark until the next annual review or audit.

For a growing number of motor carriers, the solution is MVR Monitoring such as CDL Legal & Carrier Guard, which are endorsed services by the NorthAmerican Transportation Association.

These automated programs actively monitor the MVRs for CDL drivers on an ongoing basis too help businesses more easily identify problems, address concerns, and put corrective action plans into place (if needed) before an out-of-service issue arrives.

Don’t get caught off guard, not by not knowing what’s going on in regards to your drivers. This could have very serious ramifications for your business.

For example, A Nassau County, Fla., jury on Aug. 20, 2021 issued a total of $1 billion in monetary damages against two motor carriers that were declared negligent for their role in a pair of 2017 crashes on the same night and near the same location.

Prior to the crash, one truck driver had already amassed a long list of moving violations, including running weigh stations, logbook violations, rear-end crashes, distracted driving, following too closely, and a speeding violation for traveling 95 mph on I-95, according to plaintiff attorney Curry Pajcic of Jacksonville, FL

Much as the name suggests, a good MVR monitoring program keeps tab on drivers by constantly monitoring their driving records and looking for new information. And as soon as there is any change, or “hit” found on a driver’s record, an updated MVR is pulled and evaluated for accuracy. Employers and motor carriers are immediately alerted to any “hit” and receive the updated MVR for review.

For more information go to: https://www.ntassoc.com/cdllegal and https://cdllegal.com/carrierguard/