TSA to miss fingerprint deadline
SAN ANTONIO, Calif. The Transportation Security Administration won’t meet its own deadline to start conducting fingerprint background checks for U.S. hazmat drivers.
"We are not in a position to start 16 days from now," Justin Oberman, director of TSA’s credentialing unit, told trucking executives at the ATA Management Conference & Exhibition in San Antonio Oct. 20.
The deadline set by the agency for states to begin fingerprinting anyone renewing or applying for a new commercial driver license with a hazmat endorsement was originally Nov. 3. There are an estimated 3.2-million drivers who currently haul hazardous materials. About five million drivers have hazmat certifications on their commercial drivers licenses.
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