The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration announced this week its intentions to survey recently licensed truck operators as part of the data gathering process in producing an entry level driver training rule.
The agency says it seeks to determine what type of entry-level training truck operators received to obtain a CDL and what additional training hazmat haulers received. The agency is looking to survey drivers licensed within the past three years.
FMCSA says it also will survey motorcoach and bus drivers.
Drivers surveyed must also have received an inspection within the past 12 months, which will verify they still drive for a living, the agnecy says in its announcement.
The agency says the survey will take between 12 and 21 minutes to complete and will be done online on a secure website. The agency will send invitations to participate to roughly 82,000 CDL holders. The survey will be confidential, it says.
The research is part of broader research being done for the rulemaking, FMCSA says.
“The goal is to obtain a better understanding of the amount and type of total training they received, and its composition between that received before obtaining the CDL, and that received after obtaining the CDL,” according to the agency’s Federal Register announcement.
