Panel: Oversight of Licensers Needed

September 19, 2000 9:30 AM, EDT

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — A panel appointed by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to look into commercial driver license bribery in the Chicago area found driver licensers were not being adequately monitored in Illinois and nationwide.

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The panel’s report is still getting the required approvals from within FMCSA, but Kevin O’Brien, a member of the panel, provided some insight into the findings.

O’Brien spoke at a CDL symposium hosted by the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators that was held Sept. 9, before the annual meeting of the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance, in Grand Rapids, Mich.

“Monitoring [of third party testers] is grossly inadequate, but I don’t think we would find much different being done in other states,” he said. “Not that it is happening elsewhere, but the vulnerability is there.”

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