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Motor Carrier Specialist

The Motor Carrier Specialist (MCS) plays a vital role within our commercial unit at the California Highway Patrol. An MSC is assigned to work all over California and travel to facilities where commercial vehicles are based. An MCS will inspect motor carriers for compliance with statutory and regulatory requirements relating to safety, maintenance, and operational practices. Among other duties, MCSs will check motor carrier drivers for controlled substances, alcohol testing, and hazardous materials transportation requirements. They will also make recommendations to motor carriers regarding improvements to their procedures and practices. 
They will perform inspections and evaluations of school buses, general public paratransit vehicles, farm labor vehicles, buses, trucks, truck tractors, pull-trailers, and semi-trailers. The MCS is essential in helping maintain our roadways safe from dangerous and unkept commercial vehicles.

Minimum qualifications for the position of MCS: 

• One year of experience performing the duties of a CVIS I, Range B.
  

• Four years of experience in any one or a combination of the following: College education with major work in automotive or mechanical engineering may be substituted for the required experience on a year-for-year basis. 
  

1. As a journey-level mechanic including mechanical repair and preventive maintenance programs. Experience as a driver of a bus or truck and trailer or semi-trailer, heavy-duty trucking equipment may be substituted for up to one year of the required journey-level mechanic experience, Or 

2. Automotive or mechanical engineering experience, which shall have included extensive experience in the design, modification, or regulation of motor vehicle equipment, Or 

3. As a field supervisor, or a comparable position with a motor carrier, operating a fleet of heavy-duty motor trucking or bus vehicles with typical over-the-road operations.