For carriers on a regular tender panel, yes. A clean carrier with a weak driver pool is functionally a weak carrier. Driver-side reports — the Pre-Employment Screening Program (PSP) report, the Motor Vehicle Record (MVR), and the CDLIS report — give visibility into the actual drivers operating under a carrier’s authority. They do not replace the carrier-level vetting on SAFER and Licensing and Insurance, but they add a layer that catches problems the carrier-level view cannot. A carrier whose drivers do not appear consistently in a CDLIS lookup, whose MVRs reveal high turnover, or whose PSP reports show patterns of violations is a carrier worth re-vetting before the next tender.
