ambulance companies checking driving record

[Richard B the EMT]

Take a defensive driving course. I think you get points when you complete driver education programs.

Actually, if you have points, they get reduced by taking these courses, and your personal auto insurance will go down even with NO points on your driver's insurance.

[FormerEMSLT297]

Most states today use the NCIC system which has drivers records back 11, yes eleven years,

Speeding tickets & moving violations will show , and crashes will only show if you were issued citations. Your record from other states will also be there .

Moving violations and property loss accidents might tend to make an insurance company not want you to be an operator and that is what will decide if a company hires you.

DUI's & criminal speed will also get you rejected by most reputable firms risk management dept's.

Sorry Island emt but this is just wrong information. NCIC (National Crime Information Center) is a federally run data base on Stolen vehicles, tags, guns, missing persons, wanted criminals etc, and HAS NOTHING to do with DMV.

Each state has its own DMV, which is linked to each other thru a sytem called NLETS National Law Enforcement Telegraph System. This system allows each state to enter driving records, and vehicle registration records for all vehicles registerd in that state. It also allows an officer from one state, to communicate via NLETS, and check a driving record of anyone.

This system is RESTRICTED to official LE purposes only, and is not used by MOST private ambulance and EMS companies to get "driving historys".. Usually an employee will ask you to fill out a waiver and send away to DMV for you record, (it costs about 5-10 bucks) or if they are a town FD, or City EMS, they will ask to local PD to run it for them as part of a pre-employment background check, or a continuing check every X number of years.

I know of some pvt ems agencies that required you to bring a driving record with you when you submitted you application.

NYC-EMS used to check it every 3 years (when you went to refresher) simply make sure your license was not SUSPENDED or REVOKED. every time they ran a check they found several employees who were. Most were not fired , but merely prohibited from driving until the got a clearance.

Bottom line there are MANY ways of checking your driving record, but if a PD does its thru NLETS, not NCIC, also differnet states go back different number of years..

For Example, NYS registers a lot more cars than Rhode Island so you might get a history from RI for 11 years, NYS make only go back 7, it all depends how their data base is set up....

As for NCIC, once a Stolen, Missing person, wanted person or Unidentified person is entered into NCIC, it become a PERMANENT record, and CAN NOT BE DELETED until removed by the agency that entered the case into the system.

I hope this clears things up.

Stay safe ... FormerEMSLT and current NCIC terminal operator.