Eight checks have to clear before a CDL driver touches a truck, and three more are owed within 30 days of the first day. The rule and the deadline for each, plus the widely-run checks no federal regulation actually requires.
Screening
Who is this driver?
A working procedure for the gap between what a driver has to disclose and what you have to investigate: the mandatory call list, the notices that come first, and the record that has to exist when nobody calls you back.
49 CFR 391.23(a)(1) answers this in one line: the pre-employment record must cover the driver's prior 3-year driving history, and it must come from every state that licensed him during those three years. How much further back a state record reaches is state law.
The FMCSRs put a 30-day clock on the carrier, not on the licensing authority. What 391.23(a)(1) and (b) actually require, what to do when the record has not arrived, and the one MVR that cannot wait 30 days at all.
Who you must ask, what the request has to contain, which 30-day clock is which, and where the answers are legally required to live.
A working procedure for the afternoon a DAC report comes back flagged, thin, or flatly contradicted by the driver sitting in your office.
A working procedure for the driver whose record came back too short: which jurisdictions you actually owe, how to reconcile the timelines, and how to run the annual review so it stops being a fire drill.
Everything a carrier needs on the FMCSA Pre-Employment Screening Program: what the report contains, what it costs, how to build it into hiring without stalling anybody, and how to read the mixed report that eats your afternoon.
A scoring method for truck driver reviews: provenance first, pattern second, and a tie-breaker for reviews that contradict each other.