Background checks for Hazmat truckers  

The U.S.A. Patriot Act, mandates background checks for all HAZMAT truckers.


Background checks for HAZMAT truckers also include FBI fingerprinting. Under the Patriot Act, it is essential all drivers report past felonies including murder, bribery, illegal substance transport, immigration violations, unlawful possession of firearms, lack of valid U.S. citizenship, and identity fraud to their supervisors and/or employers.

Additional criminal checks by the FBI may be included in the background checks for HAZMAT truckers. Every five years it is the truckers responsibility to renew his/or her HAZMAT endorsement. Failing to renew endorsements, or report prior crimes may result in potential problems.

Every day in the United States, more than three million truckers transporting approximately 800,000 shipments of various hazardous materials. In the wake of 9/11, background checks for HAZMAT trucker should not come as a surprise. Ground transport of hazardous materials, including but are not limited to gasoline, asphalt, cement, ammonia, fertilizer, propane, oxygen, chlorine all of which can be prime targets for terrorists. After 9/11, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) began revising and implementing new rules and regulations governing airport screening, cargo planes, and shipping containers.

Today trucking companies have to invest time, money, and effort creating security plans, which directly address the concerns of their industries security. Mandatory background checks on all applicants, as well as current employees should be implemented. Today in our country there is no room for error.