Transport committee  If they were denied, do you mean?

Transport committee  Not on this program. In the U.S. there have been several attempts by various agencies to prohibit certain types of background checks, but not on this program, that we're aware of. In fact, the industry--American Trucking Association, the regional motor carriers association--got o

Transport committee  Out of the 800,000 applicants to haul hazardous materials.

Transport committee  The good news is, I cannot think of one incident that has occurred in the transportation of dangerous goods since the inception of the hazardous materials program in November of 2004. So while we do not, as we've talked about here today, see the actual results of the history or t

Transport committee  If there's a criminal history, the FBI keeps that data. If there is no criminal history, the fingerprints are purged. They never appear again. They're not kept on file.

Transport committee  No, if they were rejected, it's kept on file.

Transport committee  I don't know if TSA is allowed to share that with other agencies.

Transport committee  I think that means they're a threat, if they're considered a threat.

Transport committee  A very large percentage have criminal histories that caused them to be rejected. I should point out, however, that when a transport worker is initially rejected by TSA they have the full ability to appeal and to challenge that decision. They involve their state jurisdiction in th

Transport committee  It has been said you can only gauge what a person might do in the future based upon their past. That's really the only thing the criminal history search can do: whether it's name-based or fingerprint-based, the criminal history in itself is what they use.

Transport committee  I don't know the definition of minor offence, but 50 million sets of criminal fingerprints are in the criminal history of the FBI; 50 million Americans have a criminal history, and it's not jaywalking. These are criteria felonies. Therefore when a felony offence is pulled up on t

Transport committee  TSA does all the accepting or rejecting, and we provide the data to them only. They do not share with us every way they reject transport workers from hauling hazardous materials, but our understanding is that could be a part of the security threat assessment judgment that TSA vet

Transport committee  I don't know.

Transport committee  However, what you just said about them going further with their vetting process other than just.... Just because there's a clean criminal history doesn't mean they'll be allowed to transport hazardous materials. They have other vetting processes. That's only one piece of the puzz

Transport committee  No. To go back to your original question on the HAZMAT endorsement, if the drivers don't have the HAZMAT endorsement on their commercial driver's licence, the companies prevent them from hauling hazardous materials; therefore, they cannot even be on a vehicle that has been used