Companies that operate the kind of business that requires them to have employees who drive for business purposes must deal with a greater risk and liability than companies that don’t include driving as an aspect of their routine. An employee that is being trusted to drive for business reasons must be screened even further than a typical employee. If you’ve utilized AAA Credit Screening Services in the past for your employee background checks, you’re already aware of how valuable we are to the hiring process.

With a background screening, you have access to critical information about someone you are considering for employment, which includes things such as employment verification, a credit check and a criminal check so that you can be sure that not only is the information that this individual has provided is complete and accurate but that they aren’t hiding something that should disqualify them from consideration. This same information should be acquired when screening an employee for a position that will require them to drive but in addition, you’ll also want to obtain their motor vehicle records.

If a person that has a poor driving history, a record of violations and accidents or even past suspensions of their driver’s license, it might reflect poorly on their character but wouldn’t necessarily make them unqualified for a position in your company if they’ll never be asked to do any driving. However, all of this information should be taken into account if you’re screening employees that will be driving for you. This can apply to both totally new employees as well as existing employees that will now be doing some driving.

Many companies think they should only obtain someone’s motor vehicle records if they’re going to be doing a job that has them doing mostly driving, such as a truck driver or delivery driver. But your company is also at risk when someone is simply running small errands or transporting clients. How embarrassing would it be to find that an employee was involved in accident or received a traffic ticket while with a client? It’ll be even more regrettable if you discover that person probably shouldn’t have been driving those clients anyway based on their driving history. You don’t have to take those risks when you view someone’s motor vehicle records before you ask them to drive for your company. You’ll know if someone has a clean driving record or if you should choose someone else to do the driving.

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