Company Awarded FMCSA Contract to Screen Drivers

NIC Technologies LLC said Tuesday it has been awarded the contract to oversee the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s pre-employment screening system for truck and bus drivers.

The Olathe, Kan.-based company said the deal was a one-year contract with four, single-year renewals.

Harry Herington, chairman and chief executive officer of NIC, said the company has done similar records work for drivers at the state level, calling the new system “a natural fit.”

Announced earlier this month, the pre-employment screening system will allow fleets to examine the safety records of drivers.

In a speech Tuesday in Bethesda, Md., Acting FMCSA Administrator Rose McMurray said that the agency would launch the new program “by the end of this year.”

With the system, fleets will have “more safety information about commercial drivers so that they can use that information when they decide which commercial drivers they are going to hire for their companies.”

By Sean McNally
Senior Reporter