Sh0eless

I was station in Germany for 11 years and maintained my Mississippi drivers license. The Army provides a USAREUR license which basically gives you driving privaleges in Gemrnay as long as you maintain a current U.S. license. Europe has a lot of speeding cameras so I picked up a few speeding tickets from mobile and stationary cameras. My question is, on an application will I only need to report driving infractions listed on my Mississippi license (none) or will the airline know I was stationed in Europe, had a military issued license and want to see that driving record as well. Thanks for any information you can provide.

JohnBurke

When an airline looks at your driving record, generally they are looking at the National Driver Register, which is a database to which all states report driving license suspensions and revocations, as well as major offenses such as DUI's. While all states participate in the NDR, there is also the Driver License Compact, agreements between some states, but not all. The upshot is that one can get a speeding ticket in one state and another won't know about it, because one or the other may not be part of the Compact.

While your USAREUR was based on a US license, tickets in europe will not be reported through the compact, and will not appear on the Naitona Driver Registry. However, it's always a wise idea to gain our own verification. You can typically get your local police department to run a criminal history and wants check, and any significant driving infractions will turn up there, too, as it's going through your state bureau of criminal investigation, the national crime informatino computer system and additional databases (there are about thirty). You can contact the NDR directly with a records request. Whether minor driving offenses will be available depends on where they occurred and which state you're asking, as those will be a function of the Compact. Only the big stuff is typically listed through the NDR, which is where the airline will be specifically looking.

For your name and personal identifiable information (PII) to be in the NDR, you'd need to have had your driver license suspended, revoked, cancelled (or denied), or you'd need to have been convicted of a serious traffic offense (not a minor offense).

The military doesn't report to either, particualrly with tickets via a foreign nation. The military does find offenses on those databases, however (DUI's, for example).

You can contact the National Driver Register by mail at:
National Driver Register

1200 New Jersey Avenue, S.E.
NVS-422
Washington, D.C. 20590

You should include your driver license information (state, number), plus name, height, weight, etc. The more information you include, the more accurate the response (SSN, weight, height, eye color, etc). Requests must be made in writing, via notarized letter.

https://www.nhtsa.gov/sites/nhtsa.go...q-11122015.pdf

rickair7777

JB gave good advice, but I seriously doubt that any traffic infractions overseas would ever appear in US systems, unless those to criminal levels (DUI, reckless endangerment, etc).