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Transportation

Hire commercial drivers based on driving record and verified credentials

  • Promote safety on the road
  • Comply with the Department of Transportation (DOT) regulations
  • Reduce liability exposure 

Screen potential drivers quickly and easily  

Transportation companies face a fast-changing labor market, with growing demand for many kinds of services.

Registration with  Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) using your USDOT Number and Drug and Alcohol Clearinghouse is required for certain product offerings

What transportation companies say they want  

Transportation companies we’ve worked with have these main criteria for choosing a provider or screening services:

  • Thoroughness of results
  • Fast turnaround
  • Regulatory compliance tools
  • Low cost

In addition, they want:

  • Easy-to-use self-service desktop and mobile apps
  • Reliable delivery  
  • Efficient ordering and easy account management
  • Plenty of support when they want it

THE SOLUTION

Choose a pre-employment screening package tailored for transportation companies

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PRE-EMPLOYMENT
PRE-EMPLOYMENT + CRIMINAL
PRE-EMPLOYMENT, CDLIS + CRIMINAL
DOT Driving Record Report provides access to motor vehicle records from 50 states plus the District of Columbia.
DOT Driving Record Report provides access to motor vehicle records from 50 states plus the District of Columbia.
DOT Driving Record Report provides access to motor vehicle records from 50 states plus the District of Columbia.
DOT Compliance Employment Verification provides three years of employment history for DOT regulated positions
DOT Compliance Employment Verification provides three years of employment history for DOT regulated positions
DOT Compliance Employment Verification provides three years of employment history for DOT regulated positions
DOT Drug & Alcohol Employment Verification checks a driver’s drug and alcohol violation history with each employer for the past three years, including violations of alcohol and controlled substances prohibitions
DOT Drug & Alcohol Employment Verification checks a driver’s drug and alcohol violation history with each employer for the past three years, including violations of alcohol and controlled substances prohibitions
DOT Drug & Alcohol Employment Verification checks a driver’s drug and alcohol violation history with each employer for the past three years, including violations of alcohol and controlled substances prohibitions
Drug & Alcohol Clearinghouse Pre-Employment Full Query queries the FMCSA database for any information about a driver’s drug and alcohol program violations.
Drug & Alcohol Clearinghouse Pre-Employment Full Query queries the FMCSA database for any information about a driver’s drug and alcohol program violations.
Drug & Alcohol Clearinghouse Pre-Employment Full Query queries the FMCSA database for any information about a driver’s drug and alcohol program violations.
Instant Criminal+
Instant Criminal+
CDLIS searches the Commercial Driver’s License Information System to verify the current state and license number of a driver

Get the verifications you need

In choosing your background checks, you have several options to meet your needs.


  • Pick from 3 pre-configured transportation packages or order a la carte products. 
  • Create your own custom packages.
  • Get annual current employment screening. 
  • Screen driving record only then automatically add more products if candidate passes.
  • Add optional screening from a menu of more than 15 services. 
  • You can also arrange for volume discounts.

Choose an annual screening package tailored for transportation companies

 

Provide simplicity of compliance with CFR 49 § 391.25 for annual driving record review and CFR 49 § 382.701 for annual drug and alcohol clearinghouse query

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DOT Driving Record Report provides access to motor vehicle records from 50 states plus the District of Columbia.
Instant Criminal+
Drug & Alcohol Clearinghouse Annual Employment Limited Query fulfills the annual requirement for querying the FMCSA database
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Order high-volume searches efficiently

The technology and service platform behind backgroundchecks.com makes it easy for you to...

  • Manage your account with as little or as much help as you want from us.
  • Execute large volumes of searches.

Get your searches from the industry's most convenient and reliable source.

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Perform reliable searches and checks

With backgroundchecks.com, you have access to over 650 million records. It’s the top criminal conviction database in the industry. 

We also search for updated records for the criminal database.

Why do we do this?
To provide cleaner, more consistent and up-to-date searches of criminal records.

Get help in choosing the right checks and reports

Sometimes it’s hard to know what checks and reports you need for different levels of hiring. 

Don’t worry. We have you covered. 

Depending on whom you’re hiring, we’ll suggest a standard transportation or custom package that meets all your needs.

Set up efficient, scalable processes for hiring fast and at volume

Once you’ve chosen the checks you need for each role in your organization, make your processes fast, easy, and consistent. 

You can do so through our self-service portal, which works through desktop or mobile devices. 

It enables authorized users to run the same processes over and over, from wherever you may be.  

You can also check progress and results from mobile devices.

Get answers to your common questions – including information about compliance

If you have questions about compliance requirements, you’ll find answers to common questions in our self-service Learning Center. 

If you don’t find what you’re looking for, just contact our team with your questions. We’ll help you get answers fast.

Customize your checks and reports

If the screening you want isn’t available in a standard package, you can build your own. 

You can build different custom packages for different positions.

We help you get exactly the background checks you need or want.

Receive fast, reliable results

Some of our checks return instant results.

More detailed and thorough searches may take from 1 to 3 days.

When you order, we tell you the estimated turnaround time for each product you’ve chosen.

Our systems also help you manage your workflow and downloaded reports.

Be sure. Be confident. Be fast, efficient, and consistent.

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More than 17,000 small and mid-sized businesses screen job candidates through backgroundchecks.com