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Monday, February 07, 2005
Scrutiny falls on license testing
Post / Cyrus McCrimmon
Richard Lammers, president of U.S. Truck Driving Schools in Wheat Ridge, says his company hires experienced instructors and screens students well. He says that’s why Motor Vehicles Division records show relatively few problems at his school.
The Somalis came to Colorado by the dozens over a three-year stretch, seeking something they were having trouble getting in their home state of Minnesota: driver's licenses.
They streamed to a Denver driving school and so-called third-party tester, which trains drivers, tests them and then certifies to Colorado officials that they are ready to drive.
The federal investigation of illegal driver's-license sales in Colorado has cast intense new scrutiny on such companies and individuals who perform road tests on the state's behalf.
These so-called third-party testers have the state's blessing to train and then test people for truck-driving and ordinary licenses.
But critics say third-party testers vary widely in quality and are too susceptible to manipulation, sometimes allegedly taking cash to wave drivers through and in other cases failing to live up to the letter of state regulations.
Richard Lammers, president of U.S. Truck Driving Schools in Wheat Ridge, says his company hires experienced instructors and screens students well. He says that’s why Motor Vehicles Division records show relatively few problems at his school.
The Somalis came to Colorado by the dozens over a three-year stretch, seeking something they were having trouble getting in their home state of Minnesota: driver's licenses.
They streamed to a Denver driving school and so-called third-party tester, which trains drivers, tests them and then certifies to Colorado officials that they are ready to drive.
The federal investigation of illegal driver's-license sales in Colorado has cast intense new scrutiny on such companies and individuals who perform road tests on the state's behalf.
These so-called third-party testers have the state's blessing to train and then test people for truck-driving and ordinary licenses.
But critics say third-party testers vary widely in quality and are too susceptible to manipulation, sometimes allegedly taking cash to wave drivers through and in other cases failing to live up to the letter of state regulations.
