Commercial Driver's License Information System
Mandated by the Commercial Motor Vehicle Safety Act 1986 (CMVSA), CDLIS helps control issuance of a Commercial driver's license (CDL) and the withdrawal of a commercial driver by the CDLIS jurisdictions (the 50 U.S. States and the District of Columbia). The purpose of CDLIS is to keep a record of each driver nationwide and help ensure only one driver license and one record for each driver and to enable authorized users to check whether a driver is withdrawn, through the cooperative exchange of commercial driver information between the CDLIS jurisdictions.
CDLIS has operated in all 51 CDLIS jurisdictions since April 1, 1992. As of August 31, 2006, CDLIS had 12.9 million driver records, growing at an average rate of nearly 40,000 new records per month.
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