• If a carrier receives a Driver Vehicle Examination Report and feels the report is incomplete or the information in it is incorrect, it can submit a challenge through DataQs.
• DataQs is the online system for drivers, motor carriers, federal and state agencies, the public, and industry to file concerns about federal and state data maintained in the MCMIS and released to the public by FMCSA.

The DataQs system is an electronic system for filing challenges, formally called Requests for Data Review or RDRs, to data maintained by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) in the Motor Carrier Management Information System (MCMIS). This database has all roadside inspection reports, DOT-recordable crash reports, and the results of any investigations in it. Many of these reports are provided to FMCSA by the states, as state officers typically conduct roadside inspections and complete crash reports. This data in turn feeds into all the FMCSA’s data systems and carrier scoring systems, including the Safety Measurement System (SMS) in the Compliance, Safety, Accountability (CSA) program.

DataQs can be used by drivers, motor carriers, federal and state agencies, the public, and industry to file concerns about federal and state data maintained in the MCMIS.

Once a driver, motor carrier, or other interested party submits an RDR to DataQs, the system automatically directs the challenge to the correct office and allows FMCSA to have visibility to the challenges that are being filed.

Why would a carrier need to challenge some of the data?

Here are common reasons:

• The event (roadside inspection or crash) involved another carrier.
• The carrier is missing a roadside inspection in its data (i.e., it has the report, but it is not showing up in the carrier’s data in FMCSA’s data systems).
• The driver was not presented with a roadside inspection report, the driver did not submit the driver copy of the report to the carrier, or the report was lost.
• The officer made an error and wrote a violation that was not a violation.
• There is an accident in the carrier’s data that did not involve a vehicle operating under its DOT number or that was not a DOT-recordable accident (i.e., no fatality, no injury requiring immediate treatment away from the scene, and no vehicle towed due to disabling damage).