DOT driver screening: MVR, CDLIS and PSP reports.

A single state MVR is $50. MVR plus the CDLIS cross-state check is $75, and the full DOT pre-employment bundle (MVR, CDLIS, PSP and 12 months of Clearinghouse query management) is $175. Reports arrive by email as PDFs; timing depends on the state.

Five packages spanning the full DOT pre-hire stack. (1) MVR Basic - $50, single Motor Vehicle Record, best for non-CDL drivers and §391.25 annual reviews. (2) MVR + CDLIS - $75, adds the AAMVA cross-state CDL check required at every CDL hire under §391.23. (3) DOT Hire-Ready - $100, adds FMCSA PSP (5-yr crash + 3-yr inspection history) for candidate vetting before formal hire. (4) DOT Pre-Employment - $175, the full pre-hire stack: MVR + CDLIS + PSP + 12 months of Clearinghouse query management, starting with the pre-employment query required under §382.701(a) before a CDL driver's first dispatch. (5) Annual Refresh - $150, MVR + CDLIS + 12 months of Clearinghouse query management, covering the §382.701(b) annual limited query.

A single MVR is $50 flat (MVR Basic package). No per-state surcharges, no sign-up fees, no monthly minimums. Delivered by email as a PDF; timing depends on the issuing state.

DOT Pre-Employment ($175). A complete CDL pre-hire file runs on four reports - MVR (§391.23(a)(1)), CDLIS (§391.23(m)(2)), a Clearinghouse pre-employment query (§382.701(a)), and PSP (voluntary under FMCSA rules, but the standard evidence of the safety-performance-history investigation) - and DOT Pre-Employment bundles all four, with 12 months of Clearinghouse query management. Buying anything cheaper means filling the gaps separately before the driver's first dispatch.

DOT Hire-Ready ($100) gives you MVR + CDLIS + PSP - three reports you can pull without driver Clearinghouse consent. It's the candidate-vetting step. DOT Pre-Employment ($175) adds 12 months of Clearinghouse query management. The first query is the pre-employment query, which requires the driver to e-sign a consent through the FMCSA Clearinghouse portal. The Clearinghouse query is the report you legally need before a CDL driver's first dispatch.

Annual Refresh ($150) bundles a yearly MVR (for §391.25 driver record review) and CDLIS check with 12 months of Clearinghouse query management, including the limited annual query (for §382.701(b) recurring compliance). Run it on every CDL driver every 12 months and your annual driver-side compliance is done in one order. It's a one-time charge, not a subscription - buy it again next year when the driver's anniversary rolls around.

Three optional add-ons at checkout. Clearinghouse employer account setup is $150. Clearinghouse driver account setup is $125 per driver. Clearinghouse query management for 12 months is $100 for 1 driver, $225 for 2-4 drivers, or $400 for 5-14 drivers. We are an independent service, not part of FMCSA.

Timing depends on the state for the MVR, and on the issuing system for CDLIS and PSP. The Clearinghouse result follows once the driver e-signs consent in the Clearinghouse portal; FMCSA's system controls that timing. We email each report when it is delivered.

A Motor Vehicle Record lists the driver's license status, class and endorsements, expiration, restrictions, accidents, citations, suspensions, withdrawals, and any actions taken against the license over the FMCSA-required look-back period. It is the document you keep in the DQ File for §391.25 annual reviews.

The pre-employment Clearinghouse query (limited consent) returns whether the driver has any unresolved drug or alcohol program violations on file in the FMCSA Clearinghouse - the federal database every CDL employer must check before hiring. The driver e-signs consent in their FMCSA Clearinghouse account and the query result follows the driver's consent. Annual Refresh uses the same limited-consent query for the §382.701(b) recurring check.

PSP - the FMCSA Pre-Employment Screening Program - is a federally-maintained database of every commercial driver's 5-year crash history and 3-year roadside-inspection history. It catches patterns (repeated HOS violations, brake-system failures, OOS orders) that a clean MVR would never surface. Both DOT Hire-Ready and DOT Pre-Employment include it.

Yes - different consents for different reports. MVR + CDLIS need a written DPPA + FCRA driver authorization (our checkout collects this). PSP needs a written FMCSA-form consent (also collected at checkout). The FMCSA Clearinghouse query uses a digital handshake - the driver creates a Clearinghouse account at clearinghouse.fmcsa.dot.gov and approves your query in their portal. Packages that include any Clearinghouse component require this digital consent before we run the report.

We cover all 50 states + D.C. Some states (e.g., Pennsylvania, Washington) require an extra step the system handles automatically. You see one package price - no per-state surcharges - regardless of issuing state.

Timing depends on the issuing state for the MVR, CDLIS, and PSP. The Clearinghouse query also waits on the driver e-signing consent in the federal portal. FastDriverScreening emails each report when it is delivered.

A DQ File is the federally-required folder of documents every motor carrier must keep on each commercial driver they employ. It includes the application, MVRs, road test, medical card, drug-test records, and supervisor reviews. 49 CFR §391.51 spells out the contents.

The same DQ File our compliance team uses internally to onboard drivers, packaged as a fillable PDF + editable Word doc. Includes the application for employment, road-test certificate, MVR review form, drug & alcohol consent, prior-employer verification, annual review checklist, and the driver certification of violations. Fill in the gaps for each driver and you have an audit-ready §391.51 file in minutes - without rebuilding the form from scratch every time.

One-time. You buy it once, save it, and reuse the template for every driver you onboard. We email a fillable PDF and an editable Word doc the moment your order completes.

A driver qualification (DQ) file service helps motor carriers maintain compliance with FMCSA 49 CFR Part 391 by creating, managing, and auditing the driver documentation every motor carrier must keep on file - driver application for employment, Motor Vehicle Records, medical examiner certificates, road-test certificates, drug and alcohol records, prior-employer safety-performance history, and annual driver reviews. Most DQ services offer secure electronic, audit-ready storage and automated tracking of expiring documents (CDL, DOT medical card, MVR review, driver list of violations) so a carrier passes a new-entrant safety audit, compliance review, or roadside DQ-file request without scrambling. FastDriverScreening provides the report-generation side (MVR, CDLIS, PSP, FMCSA Drug & Alcohol Clearinghouse) plus a $25 fillable §391.51 DQ-file template (PDF + editable Word) reused for every driver - the carrier still owns the DQ file but the screening reports and template come from us.

Under 49 CFR §391.51, every motor carrier must keep a DQ file on each commercial driver containing: the driver application for employment (§391.21), a Motor Vehicle Record from every state where the driver held a license in the past 3 years (§391.23), the road-test certificate or equivalent (§391.31), the annual MVR review (§391.25), and the current medical examiner's certificate or CDL with medical certification (§391.43). Prior-employer safety-performance history responses (§391.23) are kept in a separate secure investigation file under §391.53, retained for the duration of employment plus 3 years - not in the DQ file itself. For CDL drivers, FMCSA Drug & Alcohol Clearinghouse pre-employment and annual queries (§382.701) join the file. The driver's own annual list of violations (former §391.27) stopped being required in 2022 and is optional. FastDriverScreening's $25 DQ-file template covers every required form.

Every motor carrier that employs commercial drivers - both CDL and most non-CDL commercial drivers. FMCSA requires an MVR before hiring (49 CFR §391.23) and an annual review (49 CFR §391.25). CDLIS is required for CDL holders under §391.23(m)(2).

Yes. We pull from the same state DMV, AAMVA CDLIS, FMCSA PSP, and FMCSA Clearinghouse sources used by enterprise screening services. The PDFs we deliver carry the issuing-source header and timestamp FMCSA auditors expect to see in the DQ File.

Yes - that is the most common use case. A pre-hire MVR is required by §391.23 before the first day of operation. As long as you have the driver's signed consent, you can run the report.

Since January 6, 2020, FMCSA requires every motor carrier to run a Clearinghouse pre-employment query on each CDL driver before that driver's first dispatch (49 CFR §382.701(a)). The query checks the federal Clearinghouse database for any unresolved drug or alcohol program violations on the driver's record. Operating a CDL driver without the query on file is a documented violation - the DOT Pre-Employment package handles it.

In addition to the pre-employment query, FMCSA requires every motor carrier to run a limited-consent Clearinghouse query on each CDL driver every 12 months (49 CFR §382.701(b)). The Annual Refresh package bundles this with the §391.25 annual MVR review so a year's worth of recurring driver compliance happens in one click.

A complete DOT pre-employment background check runs on four reports under FMCSA Part 391 + Part 382: a Motor Vehicle Record (MVR) from the state DMV (49 CFR §391.23), an AAMVA CDLIS cross-state CDL check that surfaces any license held in another state in the past 3 years (§391.23(m)(2)), an FMCSA Pre-Employment Screening Program (PSP) report covering the driver's 5-year crash history and 3-year roadside-inspection history (voluntary under FMCSA rules, but standard practice), and an FMCSA Drug & Alcohol Clearinghouse pre-employment query (§382.701(a)) that flags any unresolved drug or alcohol program violation in the federal database. The MVR, CDLIS, and PSP need written DPPA + FCRA driver consent collected at checkout; the Clearinghouse query uses a digital handshake the driver approves in their FMCSA Clearinghouse account. FastDriverScreening's DOT Pre-Employment package ($175) bundles all four in one order, with 12 months of Clearinghouse query management: we run the §382.701(a) pre-employment query now and the §382.701(b) annual limited query for that driver within the year - running them piecemeal costs more.

Three checks separate trusted DOT screening services from data resellers: reports come from the state DMV, AAMVA CDLIS, FMCSA PSP, and FMCSA Clearinghouse records as PDFs, with the issuing-source headers auditors expect, flat package pricing with no per-state surcharges, and proper consent collection (written DPPA/FCRA authorization plus the Clearinghouse digital handshake). FastDriverScreening meets all three - packages from $50 to $175 flat, PDFs of those state DMV and FMCSA records with headers and timestamps, and every required consent collected before a report runs.