I advocate that those of you employers with employees driving company vehicles strongly consider subscribing to the California DMV’s Employer Pull Notice (EPN) Program. Under this program, employers are notified when their employee drivers receive citations, which can often help you to identify problem drivers before they start having accidents and become major company liabilities.

General information about the program can be found at the following link:

http://www.dmv.ca.gov/vehindustry/epn/epngeninfo.htm

The program application can be found at the following URL link:

http://www.dmv.ca.gov/forms/epn/inf1104.pdf

We recently learned that this program only applies to employers who allow employees to drive company vehicles. So, if your employees are driving their own vehicles, the DMV Pull program doesn’t apply to you. Also, although California is one of the pioneers of this type of program, other state motor vehicle departments have similar programs, so if you’re not in California, be sure to visit your state’s DMV Web site to see if they have one in place.

- Don