"The TSA has determined that you are a threat to the security of the United States of America"
Those were the ominous words in a TSA letter response to Rene's $94 background check request required to renew her CDL. Needless to say, we were alarmed at this bit of news because it meant that she could not get a Hazmat endorsement on a CDL which would also mean she could not drive for our carrier. Of even greater impact, we think, would be that her name would be included on the "no-fly list" maintained by the TSA.
We appealed the TSA's ruling and asked that they give us a copy of any releasable documents they may have used to make their initial determination, or their follow-on determinartion in the event that our appeal was unsuccessful. Our appeal was successful, but we had some anxious moment waiting for a Governmenet decision.
This whole ordeal occurred over about six weeks, a rather rapid remedy considering the usual pace of our bureaucratic paper mill. The moral of this story is apply early, well before you CDL expires.
Those were the ominous words in a TSA letter response to Rene's $94 background check request required to renew her CDL. Needless to say, we were alarmed at this bit of news because it meant that she could not get a Hazmat endorsement on a CDL which would also mean she could not drive for our carrier. Of even greater impact, we think, would be that her name would be included on the "no-fly list" maintained by the TSA.
We appealed the TSA's ruling and asked that they give us a copy of any releasable documents they may have used to make their initial determination, or their follow-on determinartion in the event that our appeal was unsuccessful. Our appeal was successful, but we had some anxious moment waiting for a Governmenet decision.
This whole ordeal occurred over about six weeks, a rather rapid remedy considering the usual pace of our bureaucratic paper mill. The moral of this story is apply early, well before you CDL expires.
