What shows on a PSP report?
A PSP (Pre-Employment Screening Program) report shows 5 years of FMCSA roadside inspections and 3 years of reportable DOT crashes on the driver. Each inspection entry lists the date, state, level (1-6), inspection result (no violations, warning, OOS), and any violations cited. Crashes show date, state, fatality/injury/tow-away status, and the assigned crash report number.
PSP is sourced from the FMCSA MCMIS (Motor Carrier Management Information System) database and is operated by FMCSA via NIC Federal under the SAFETEA-LU statutory authority. The report is driver-centric: a single PSP query returns every inspection event recorded against the driver, regardless of which carrier the driver was operating under at the time of the inspection. That makes PSP the single best source for cross-employer driving behavior.
The inspection section lists each event with the standard MCMIS fields: inspection date, state of inspection, inspection level (Level 1 full, Level 2 walk-around, Level 3 driver-only, Level 4 special, Level 5 vehicle-only with no driver, Level 6 enhanced for radioactive shipments), inspection result, any violations with the §392-§396 violation code, and whether any violations were OOS (out-of-service). Some violations are coded as "warning only" and don't affect the carrier's SMS scoring but still show on PSP.
The crash section lists every reportable DOT crash on the driver during the prior 3 years. A "reportable" crash under §390.5 is one resulting in a fatality, a tow-away, or an injury requiring medical attention away from the scene. Each entry shows the crash date, state, severity flags, and the FMCSA crash report number. PSP does NOT include carrier liability or fault assignment — those are not in MCMIS.
PSP does NOT include MVR data, license-status, court convictions, or Clearinghouse drug-and-alcohol violations. Those are separate sources (state DMV MVR, AAMVA CDLIS, FMCSA Clearinghouse). For a complete §391.23 file, the carrier runs PSP plus MVR plus CDLIS plus the Clearinghouse query. The four-source bundle is the operating standard for new-hire CDL screening.