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The Drug and Alcohol Clearinghouse

Query drivers before you hire and report violations on time

What you’ll learn

30 self-paced lessons · One-time price · Certificate of completion · Access never expires

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This course covers your Drug and Alcohol Clearinghouse obligations end to end: who has to register and how, including the identity verification and C/TPA designation steps built into registration, the pre-employment and annual queries you must run and the consent each one needs, what you report and how quickly, and what prohibited status means for a driver and for you. The course is organized into five modules of short lessons, followed by a final quiz.

1

What the Clearinghouse is

4 lessons

  • 1The problem it was built to solve
  • 2Who has to register
  • 3What counts as a violation
  • 4What "prohibited" means
2

Registering

10 lessons

  • 1What you need first
  • 2Choosing your role
  • 3Verifying your identity
  • 4The FMCSA Portal question
  • 5Two more questions in role selection
  • 6Registering as an employer
  • 7If you are an owner-operator
  • 8What drivers do
  • 9Designating a C/TPA
  • 10Buying a query plan
3

Queries

7 lessons

  • 1Two kinds of query
  • 2The pre-employment full query
  • 3The annual query
  • 4The rolling window
  • 5Consent
  • 6If consent is refused
  • 7The 24-hour rule
4

Violations and prohibited status

4 lessons

  • 1Reporting a violation
  • 2What happens to the driver
  • 3The CDL downgrade
  • 4The return-to-duty process
5

Staying compliant

5 lessons

  • 1Record retention
  • 2What an auditor looks at
  • 3Where carriers actually fail
  • 4If the record is wrong
  • 5What you can do now

Final Quiz

Covers the whole course