#Dmv hearing office van nuys drivers#
#Dmv hearing office van nuys driver#

It is the DMV’s position that a person who cheats during a written examination must not possess the requisite knowledge to drive and that it would be dangerous to allow an unqualified driver to operate a motor vehicle especially a commercial vehicle transporting passengers. If a driver is involved in fraudulent activity while renewing an existing driver license, the DMV will act immediately to refuse, suspend or revoke the privilege regardless of the impact on the driver’s life. When the Office of Driver Safety received the referral from the local field office, our client’s driver license was immediately suspended for fraud.ĭMV’s Position: The California DMV’s position was crystal clear. The manager would later write a report that she saw the book on the desk and that when she walked up, she also found our client in possession of a “cheat sheet.” The manager claimed to have seized all the evidence and forwarded her report to the Driver Safety Office. The manager walked up, presumed he was using the book to cheat and stopped the testing. As he was taking his tests, a manager for the DMV was walking by and noticed the handbook on the desk. He began taking his written tests and never once touched, handled or referred to the study material. Our client entered the testing area and placed the closed hand book on the desk to the side. The DMV employee made no comment preventing him from taking the study material into the testing area and there were no signs which prohibited the possession of the book. As he stood there, his Commercial Handbook was in plain sight-He did nothing to conceal the book. When he was called for testing, he walked up to the counter and was handed the three written tests and a pencil. Understanding that he would probably be waiting for a while, it was his intention to continue studying while he waited. On the day of his test, he made the poor choice to take his study material with him. Because his driving privilege is so important, he had been studying the Commercial Handbook for weeks. In May of 2016, our client’s Commercial Driver License was due for renewal so he entered a local DMV Field Office to challenge the written tests for General Knowledge, Air Brakes and Passenger Transportation. Clearly the loss of his driver license would mean the loss of his job. Our 72 year old client is a bus driver for a major transportation district in Southern California and has been driving professionally for more than 10 years.

#Dmv hearing office van nuys drivers#

Case History: California Drivers Advocates was engaged to protect a Commercial Driver who was being accused of cheating during a written test to renew his Class “B” driver license.