Notice2025-06473
Agency Information Collection Activities; Approval of an Information Collection Request: Commercial Driver Licensing and Testing Standards
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Published
April 16, 2025
Issuing agencies
Transportation DepartmentFederal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
Abstract
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, FMCSA announces its plan to submit the Information Collection Request (ICR) described below to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval. FMCSA requests approval to renew an ICR titled, "Commercial Driver Licensing and Test Standards." This ICR is needed to ensure that drivers, motor carriers, and the States are complying with notification and recordkeeping requirements for information related to testing, licensing, violations, convictions, and disqualifications and that the information is accurate, complete, transmitted, and recorded within certain time periods as required by the Commercial Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1986 (CMVSA or the Act), as amended.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 72 (Wednesday, April 16, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 16061-16062]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-06473]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
[Docket No. FMCSA-2023-0115]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Approval of an
Information Collection Request: Commercial Driver Licensing and Testing
Standards
AGENCY: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), Department
of Transportation (DOT).
ACTION: Notice and request for comments.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, FMCSA
announces its plan to submit the Information Collection Request (ICR)
described below to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review
and approval. FMCSA requests approval to renew an ICR titled,
``Commercial Driver Licensing and Test Standards.'' This ICR is needed
to ensure that drivers, motor carriers, and the States are complying
with notification and recordkeeping requirements for information
related to testing, licensing, violations, convictions, and
disqualifications and that the information is accurate, complete,
transmitted, and recorded within certain time periods as required by
the Commercial Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1986 (CMVSA or the Act), as
amended.
DATES: Comments must be received on or before May 16, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be submitted within 30 days of
publication of this notice to <a href="http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain">www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain</a>. Find
this information collection by selecting ``Currently under 30-day
Review--Open for Public Comments'' or by using the search function.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Isabella Marra, Transportation
Specialist, Office of Safety Programs, Commercial Driver's License
Division, DOT, FMCSA, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20590-
0001; 202-843-2454; <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#d4bda7b5b6b1b8b8b5fab9b5a6a6b594b0bba0fab3bba2"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="e58c96848780898984cb8884979784a5818a91cb828a93">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Commercial Driver Licensing and Test Standards.
OMB Control Number: 2126-0011.
Type of Request: Renewal of a currently approved ICR.
Respondents: Drivers with a commercial learner's permit (CLP) or
commercial driver's license (CDL) and State driver licensing agencies.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 7,748,964, consisting of 7,712,074
driver respondents and 36,890 State respondents.
Estimated Time per Response: Varies from 5 seconds to 40 hours.
Expiration Date: April 30, 2025.
Frequency of Response: Varies.
Estimated Total Annual Burden: 2,806,735, which is the total of
four tasks for CDL drivers (2,067,271 hours), added to a total of eight
tasks for State driver licensing agency CDL activities (739,464 hours).
Background: The licensed drivers in the United States deserve
reasonable assurances that their fellow motorists are properly
qualified to drive the vehicles they operate. Before the CMVSA (Pub. L.
99-570, Title XII, 100 Stat. 3207-170, codified at 49 U.S.C. chapter
313) was signed by the President on October 27, 1986, 18 States and the
District of Columbia authorized any person licensed to drive an
automobile to also legally drive a large truck or bus. No special
training or special license was required to drive these vehicles, even
though it was widely recognized that operation of certain types of
vehicles called for special skills, knowledge, and training. Even in
the 32 States that had a classified driver licensing system in place,
only 12 of those States required an applicant to take a skills test in
a representative vehicle. Equally serious was the problem of drivers
possessing multiple driver's licenses. By spreading their convictions
among several States, commercial motor vehicle (CMV) drivers could
avoid punishment for their infringements and stay behind the wheel.
The CMVSA addressed these problems by requiring the Federal
government to act and place minimum standards on all jurisdictions,
including the District of Columbia. Section 12002 of the Act made it
illegal for a CMV operator to have more than one driver's license.
Section 12003 required the CMV driver conducting operations in commerce
to notify both the designated State of licensure official and the
driver's employer of any convictions of State or local laws relating to
traffic control (except parking tickets). This section also required
the promulgation of regulations to ensure each person who applies for
employment as a CMV operator notifies prospective employers of all
previous employment as a CMV operator for at least the previous 10
years. In section 12005 of the Act, the Secretary of Transportation
(Secretary) is required to develop minimum Federal standards for
testing and licensing of operators of CMVs. Section 12007 of the Act
also directed the Secretary, in cooperation with the States, to develop
a clearinghouse to aid the States in implementing the one driver, one
license, and one driving record requirement. This clearinghouse is
known as the Commercial Driver's License Information System. The CMVSA
further required each person who has their CDL suspended, revoked, or
canceled by a State, or who is disqualified from operating a CMV for
any period, to notify his or her employer
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of such actions. Drivers of CMVs must notify their employers within 1
business day of being notified of the license suspension, revocation,
and cancellation, or of the lost right to operate or disqualification.
These requirements are reflected in 49 CFR part 383, titled
``Commercial Driver's License Standards; Requirements and Penalties.''
Specifically, Sec. 383.21 prohibits a person from having more than one
license; Sec. 383.31 requires notification of convictions for driver
violations; Sec. 383.33 requires notification of driver's license
suspensions; Sec. 383.35 requires notification of previous employment;
and Sec. 383.37 outlines employer responsibilities. Section 383.111
requires the passing of a knowledge test by the driver and Sec.
383.113 requires the passing of a skills test by the driver. Section
383.115 contains the requirement for the double/triple trailer
endorsement; Sec. 383.117 contains the requirement for the passenger
endorsement; Sec. 383.119 contains the requirement for the tank
vehicle endorsement; and Sec. 383.121 contains the requirement for the
hazardous materials endorsement. The 10-year employment history
information supplied by the CDL holder to the employer upon application
for employment (Sec. 383.35) is used to assist the employer in meeting
his/her responsibilities to ensure that the applicant does not have a
history of high safety risk behavior. State officials use the
information collected on the license application form (Sec. 383.71),
the medical certificate information that is posted to the driving
record, and the conviction and disqualification data posted to the
driving record (Sec. 383.73) to prevent unqualified and/or
disqualified CDL holders from operating CMVs on the nation's highways.
State officials are required to adopt and administer an FMCSA approved
program for testing and ensuring the fitness of persons to operate CMVs
(Sec. 384.201). State officials are also required to administer
knowledge and skills tests to CDL driver applicants (Sec. 384.202).
The driver applicant is required to correctly answer at least 80
percent of the questions on each knowledge test to achieve a passing
score on that test. To achieve a passing score on the skills test, the
driver applicant must demonstrate that he/she can successfully perform
all the skills listed in the regulations. During State CDL program
reviews, FMCSA officials review this information to ensure that the
provisions of the regulations are being carried out. Without the
aforementioned requirements, there would be no uniform control over
driver licensing practices to prevent unqualified and/or disqualified
drivers from being issued a CDL and to prevent unsafe drivers from
spreading their convictions among several licenses in several States
and remaining behind the wheel of a CMV. Failure to collect this
information would render the regulations unenforceable.
On February 2, 2024, FMCSA published an NPRM titled ``Amendments to
the Commercial Driver's License Requirements; Increased Flexibility for
Testing and for Drivers After Passing the Skills Test'' (89 FR 7327)
with a 60-day comment period announcing its intention to seek OMB
review and approval to update this ICR. The comment period closed on
April 2, 2024, and 646 comments were received. In accordance with 5 CFR
1320.11, the NPRM served as the 60-day ICR notice. Because FMCSA has
not yet finalized the NPRM, today's notice serves as the 30-day notice
required under 5 CFR 1320.10, and it covers only the renewal of the
existing information collection, not the revisions proposed in the
NPRM.
FMCSA received one comment in reference to the original ICR itself,
as opposed to the comments on the impacts of the NPRM on the ICR. That
commenter, the National Propane Gas Association, stated they had no
objections to the information collection requirements. Comments
received in reference to the proposed changes in the NPRM are not
included in this ICR, but will be addressed in the final rule, assuming
a final rule is to be published.
Public Comments Invited: You are asked to comment on any aspect of
this information collection, including: (1) whether the proposed
collection is necessary for the performance of FMCSA's functions; (2)
the accuracy of the estimated burden; (3) ways for FMCSA to enhance the
quality, usefulness, and clarity of the collected information; and (4)
ways that the burden could be minimized without reducing the quality of
the collected information.
Issued under the authority of 49 CFR 1.87.
Kenneth Riddle,
Acting Associate Administrator, Office of Research and Registration.
[FR Doc. 2025-06473 Filed 4-15-25; 8:45 am]
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