{"id":6193,"date":"2022-02-04T20:33:56","date_gmt":"2022-02-04T20:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/?p=6193"},"modified":"2022-02-04T20:33:56","modified_gmt":"2022-02-04T20:33:56","slug":"fmcsa-updates-guidance-on-cdl-knowledge-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/fmcsa-updates-guidance-on-cdl-knowledge-tests\/","title":{"rendered":"FMCSA updates guidance on CDL knowledge tests"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Trucking regulators have issued new guidance that strips away confusion over CDL testing standards and could help deploy entry-level drivers faster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is amending its regulatory guidance to clarify that the regulations do not prohibit third-party testers from administering the commercial <a href=\"http:\/\/findfreightloads.com\">driver\u2019s <\/a>license knowledge tests for all classes and endorsements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>FMCSA\u2019s regulatory guidance notice is scheduled to be published in the Federal Register on Thursday, Feb. 3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cState driver licensing agencies may accept the results of knowledge tests administered by third-party testers in accordance with existing knowledge test standards and requirements,\u201d the FMCSA wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The updated guidance is in response to an exemption request made by the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles in April 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>FMCSA responded to Virginia\u2019s request at the time and said the regulations do not prohibit the use of third-party testers. In addition, the agency indicated it would revise the existing guidance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Regulatory guidance that was issued as recently as 2019 said that the third-party testing provision applied only to the skills portion of the testing procedure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, FMCSA says it has reconsidered that guidance and concluded that \u201cnothing in the agency\u2019s current authorities prohibit states from permitting third-party testers to administer CDL knowledge tests.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Growth + Change = Opportunity!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trucking regulators have issued new guidance that strips away confusion over CDL testing standards and could help deploy entry-level drivers faster. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is amending its regulatory guidance to clarify that the regulations do not prohibit third-party testers from administering the commercial driver\u2019s license knowledge tests for all classes and endorsements. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6195,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6193"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6196,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6193\/revisions\/6196"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}