The DER Role & Responsibilities
Who can serve as a Designated Employer Representative, which decisions are yours to make, and where your authority begins and ends.
- Who may be designated
- Decisions reserved to the DER
- Limits of DER authority
Curriculum
Every module is online and self-paced. Together they take about two hours and cover the responsibilities FMCSA expects a DER to understand.
Who can serve as a Designated Employer Representative, which decisions are yours to make, and where your authority begins and ends.
The federal rulebook for DOT testing — collection, laboratory, MRO, and reporting procedures every DER is expected to know.
Pre-employment, random, post-accident, reasonable-suspicion, and follow-up testing rules written specifically for CDL drivers.
Coordinating collections, interpreting results, and working with the MRO from the first notice through the final outcome.
What happens after a positive or a refusal, how the SAP process works, and the steps that return a driver to safety-sensitive duty.
Queries, reporting deadlines, and exactly which records you are required to retain — and for how long.
What's covered
Written in plain English, with the citations you need when an auditor asks where a requirement comes from.
The government-wide procedures for DOT drug and alcohol testing — who does what, in what order, and what makes a test valid.
The motor-carrier-specific rules layered on top of Part 40, written for CDL drivers in safety-sensitive functions.
Registration, pre-employment and annual queries, violation reporting, and the deadlines attached to each.
The records a DER is required to keep, how long to retain them, and what an auditor will ask to see.
Ready to start? The full course is a one-time $99 and takes about two hours.
Register now — $99