THE BELOW DISCLOSURE AND AUTHORIZATION LANGUAGE IS FOR MANDATORY USE BY
ALL ACCOUNT HOLDERS
IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE
REGARDING BACKGROUND REPORTS FROM THE PSP Online Service
In connection with your application for employment with K & S CARRIERS, LLC
("Prospective Employer"), Prospective
Employer, its employees. agents or contractors may obtain one or more reports regarding your driving, and safety
inspection history from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA).
When the application for employment is submitted in person, if the Prospective Employer uses any information it
obtains from FMCSA in a decision to not hire you or to make any other adverse employment decision regarding you,
the Prospective Employer will provide you with a copy of the report upon which its decision was based and a
written summary of your rights under the Fair Credit Reporting Act before taking any final adverse action. If
any final adverse action is taken against you based upon your driving history or safety report, the Prospective
Employer will notify you that the action has been taken and that the action was based in part or in whole on
this report.
When the application for employment is submitted by mail. telephone, computer, or other similar means, if the
Prospective Employer uses any information it obtains from FMCSA in a decision to not hire you or to make any
other adverse employment decision regarding you. the Prospective Employer must provide you within three business
days of taking adverse action oral, written or electronic notification: that adverse action has been taken based
in whole or in part on information obtained from FMCSA; the name, address, and the toll free telephone number of
FMCSA; that the FMCSA did not make the decision to take the adverse action and is unable to provide you the
specific reasons why the adverse action was taken; and that you may, upon providing proper identification,
request a free copy of the report and may dispute with the FMCSA the accuracy or completeness of any information
or report. If you request a copy of a driver record from the Prospective Employer who procured the report, then,
within 3 business days of receiving your request, together with proper identification, the Prospective Employer
must send or provide to you a copy of your report and a summary of your rights under the Fair Credit Reporting
Act.
Neither the Prospective Employer nor the FMCSA contractor supplying the crash and safety information has the
capability to correct any safety data that appears to be incorrect. You may challenge the accuracy of the data
by submitting a request to https://dataqs.fmcsa.dot.gov. if you challenge crash or inspection information
reported by a State, FMCSA cannot change or correct this data. Your request will be forwarded by the DataQs
system to the appropriate State for adjudication.
Any crash or inspection in which you were involved will display on your PSP report. Since the PSP report does
not report, or assign, or imply fault, it will include all Commercial Motor Vehicle (CMV) crashes where you were
a driver or co-driver and where those crashes were reported to FMCSA, regardless of fault. Similarly, all
inspections, with or without violations, appear on the PSP report. State citations associated with Federal Motor
Carrier Safety Regulations (FMCSR) violations that have been adjudicated by a court of law will also appear, and
remain, on a PSP report.
The Prospective Employer cannot obtain background reports from FMCSA without your authorization.
AUTHORIZATION
If you agree that the Prospective Employer may obtain such background reports, please read the following and
sign below:
I authorize K & S CARRIERS, LLC ("Prospective Employer") to access the
FMCSA Pre-Employment Screening Program (PSP) system to seek information regarding my commercial driving safety
record and information regarding my safety inspection history. I understand that I am authorizing the release of
safety performance information including crash data from the previous five (5) years and inspection history from
the previous three (3) years. I understand and acknowledge that this release of information may assist
the Prospective Employer to make a determination regarding my suitability as an employee.
I further understand that neither the Prospective Employer nor the FMCSA contractor supplying the crash and
safety information has
the capability to correct any safety data that appears to be incorrect. I understand I may challenge the
accuracy of the data by submitting a request to https://dataqs.fmcsa.dot.gov.
If I challenge crash or inspection information reported by a State, FMCSA cannot change or correct this data. I
understand my request will he forwarded by the DataQs system to the appropriate State for adjudication.
understand that any crash or inspection in which I was involved will display on my PSP report. Since the PSP
report does not
report, or assign, or imply fault, I acknowledge it will include all CMV crashes where I was a driver or
co-driver and where those
crashes were reported to FMCSA, regardless of fault. Similarly, I understand all inspections, with or without
violations, will appear
on my PSP report, and State citations associated with FMCSR violations that have been adjudicated by a court of
law will also appear, and remain, on my PSP report. I have read the above Disclosure Regarding Background
Reports provided to me by Prospective Employer and I understand that if I sign this Disclosure and
Authorization, Prospective Employer may obtain a report of my crash and inspection history. I hereby authorize
Prospective Employer and its employees, authorized agents, and/or affiliates to obtain the information
authorized above.
NOTICE This form is made available to monthly account holders by N1C on behalf of the U.S Department of Transportation, Federal Motor Canter Safety Administration (FMCSA) Account holders are required by federal law to obtain an Applicant's written or electronic consent prior to accessing the Applicant's PSP report. Further, account holders are required by FMCSA to use the language contained in this Disclosure and Authorization form to obtain an Applicant's consent The language must be used in whole, exactly as provided Further, the language on this form must exist as one stand-alone document The language may NOT be included with other consent forms or any other language