Previous Employer: The below driver has made application with our Company and states that s/he worked for you in the past.
We appreciate your time completing, in confidence, the information requested below.
I hereby authorize release of information from my Department of Transportation regulated drug & alcohol testing records by my previous employer, listed above, to the POTENTIAL motor carrier. This release is in accordance with DOT Regulation 49 CFR Part 40, Section 40.25. I understand that information to be released by my previous employer, is limited to the following DOT-regulated testing items: 1. Alcohol tests with a result of 0.04 or higher; 2. Verified positive drug tests; 3. Refusals to be tested; 4. Other violations of DOT agency drug and alcohol testing regulations; 5. Information obtained from previous employers of a drug and alcohol rule violation; 6. Documentation, if any, of completion of the return-to-duty process following a rule violation.
I further authorize my former employer to release my safety performance history information to my prospective employer for investigation purposes as required by FMCSR 391.23, 382.405 (f) & 382.413(b) for the 3 years preceding this release. You are released from any and all liability that may result from furnishing such information. A photocopy of this release shall be as valid as the original.
Important Disclosure
REGARDING BACKGROUND REPORTS FROM THE PSP Online Service
In connection with your application for employment with J.T Barrier LLC (“Prospective Employer”), Prospective Employer, its employees, agents or contractors may obtain one or more reports regarding your driving, and safety inspection historyfrom the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA).
When the application for employment is submitted in person, if the Prospective Employer uses any information it obtains from FMCSA in a decision to not hire you or to make any other adverse employment decision regarding you, the Prospective Employer will provide you with a copy of the report upon which its decision was based and a written summary of your rights under the Fair Credit Reporting Act before taking any final adverse action. If any final adverse action is taken against you based upon your driving history or safety report, the Prospective Employer will notify you that the action has been taken and that the action was based in part or in whole on this report.
When the application for employment is submitted by mail, telephone, computer, or other similar means, if the Prospective Employer uses any information it obtains from FMCSA in a decision to not hire you or to make any other adverse employment decision regarding you, the Prospective Employer must provide you within three business days of taking adverse action oral, written or electronic notification: that adverse action has been taken based in whole or in part on information obtained from FMCSA; the name, address, and the toll free telephone number of FMCSA; that the FMCSA did not make the decision to take the adverse action and is unable to provide you the specific reasons why the adverse action was taken; and that you may, upon providing proper identification, request a free copy of the report and may dispute with the FMCSA the accuracy or completeness of any information or report. If you request a copy of a driver record from the Prospective Employer who procured the report, then, within 3 business days of receiving your request, together with proper identification, the Prospective Employer must send or provide to you a copy of your report and a summary of your rights under the Fair Credit Reporting Act.
Neither the Prospective Employer nor the FMCSA contractor supplying the crash and safety information has the capability to correct any safety data that appears to be incorrect. You may challenge the accuracy of the data by submitting a request to
https://dataqs.fmcsa.dot.gov. If you challenge crash or inspection information reported by a State, FMCSA cannot change or correctthis data. Your request will be forwarded by the DataQs system to the appropriate State for adjudication.
Any crash or inspection in which you were involved will display on your PSP report. Since the PSP report does not report, or assign, or imply fault, it will include all Commercial Motor Vehicle (CMV) crashes where you were a driver or co-driver and where those crashes were reported to FMCSA, regardless of fault. Similarly, all inspections, with or without violations, appear on the PSP report. State citations associated with Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations (FMCSR) violations that have been adjudicated by a court of law will also appear, and remain, on a PSP report.
The Prospective Employer cannot obtain background reports from FMCSA without your authorization.
NOTICE: This form is made available to monthly account holders by NIC on behalf of the U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA). Account holders are required by federal law to obtain an Applicant’s written or electronic consent prior to accessing the Applicant’s PSP report. Further, account holders are required by FMCSA to use the language contained in this Disclosure and Authorization form to obtain an Applicant’s consent. The language must be used in whole, exactly as provided. Further, the language on this form must exist as one stand-alone document. The language may NOT be included with other consent forms or any other language.
NOTICE: The prospective employment concept referenced in this form contemplates the definition of “employee” contained at 49 C.F.R. 383.5.