Driver Qualification File: Do I Need One?

If you are in Kansas you "should" have been asked on the KTRANS site to attend a seminar put on by the KDOT, at that seminar they will give you a VERY nicely laid out booklet on how everything needs to be.

 

The FMCSA has a little "kit" with the forms you need, including an app. Even though you own the truck, you still have to qualify as a driver even with your own authority.

 

You are two people in the same body.
The first person is the business owner.
The second is the truck driver.

The business owner needs to keep records on all truck drivers, so yes you have to make out an application for yourself. Silly to think of it that way sure, but separating the two it does make sense. You can own a company and not drive, or be a driver and not own the company. The regulations take all into account.

And here is the like for the driver kit @Ridgeline was talking about (I believe)
New Driver Application Package

 

Yeah they should be tagging you, as all new entrants need to go to the seminar, Ive have had my Interstate authority for 25 years but when I recently applied to add Intrastate auth. I had to retake the course, all in all its well worth the 6 hours you spend there.

 

Pretty sure its all by email, at least that is how I get all my notifications.