FMCSA enhances Drug and Alcohol Clearinghouse cybersecurity
FMCSA enhances Drug and Alcohol Clearinghouse cybersecurity
Publish Date: 2026-04-28 16:20:00
Source Domain: www.overdriveonline.com
Trucking news and briefs for Tuesday, April 28, 2026:
- Do you employ truck drivers in your small fleet? You may have to verify your ID in FMCSA’s drug, alcohol database after new steps to combat scammers gaining acccess to the Clearinghouse.
- Truck driver busted smuggling border crossers.
- Should fleets be allowed to use pulsating brake lights?
- “I would never just call 911 and keep going.” –Highway Angel Steve Miller
FMCSA adds ID verification requirement for employers to Clearinghouse
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) on Monday announced improvements to its Drug and Alcohol Clearinghouse online database.
New identity verification requirements for certain Clearinghouse users, including employers, will strengthen fraud prevention, improve record accuracy, and enhance accountability for over six million users in the database, the agency said.
The move follows early-year warnings from the agency about scammers convincing CDL holders to “share their commercial driver’s license (CDL) number, date of birth, and first and last names,” according to this January-posted notice in the Clearinghouse. “This may be under the guise of a Substance Abuse Professional (SAP) resolving open violations, or an employer willing to report a negative result for the return-to-duty (RTD) test or the SAP-prescribed follow-up tests.”
A small fleet owner Overdrive spoke to in March reported his driver experiencing a variant on the scenarios, with a refusal-to-test violation appearing on the driver’s record as if reported by an employer, putting the operator in prohibited-from-driving status.
Cold calls then came in offering to clear the record for payment, to which the driver agreed; the “refusal to test” vanished; and, sensing he was being scammed, the driver declined to pay for the “service.”
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