WASHINGTON — Federal officials have extended an exemption giving Wilson Logistics increased team-driver flexibility while acknowledging allegations from a former company official that the company’s driver training data may be inaccurate.
The exemption renewal, which allows Wilson Logistics drivers with a commercial learner’s permit (CLP) to work as team drivers during the period between passing the CDL skills test and receiving their CDL – without requiring the accompanying CDL holders to be on duty in the front seat – could have been derailed based on assertions from Bruce Stockton, the carrier’s former chief safety officer.
Stockton, who applied for the extension on behalf of the Strafford, Missouri-based company last year, subsequently warned the agency that he had since obtained “personal knowledge” that there may be “incorrect or false data” in the renewal application…