States will now pay to check commercial driver licenses

The federal government proposes charging state agencies a fee for using the national commercial driver's license database. This means states will now cover some of the costs for a system they must use to issue and manage commercial driver licenses.

The federal government is moving the cost of running a national driver database onto the states. State agencies will now need to find money in their budgets for a new fee, just to do a required part of their job.