Application Accuracy

Discussion in 'Prime' started by McCauley, Jul 31, 2014.

  1. McCauley

    McCauley Medium Load Member

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    "Make sure you disclose everything in your application."

    I see this written quite a bit in the Prime section but can someone elaborate on it?


    I'm assuming this is referring to very important things like criminal records, tickets, being unceremoniously fired from jobs.

    Would somebody be sent home for something like forgetting to list some short tenured part-time job from 8 years ago or being off on employment dates for jobs that long ago? Mis-remembering the month and year they got their GED and mistakenly listing the wrong information, would that do it?

    Ten years of employment history can be difficult for someone depending on how old they are. I'm 30 and I'm really stressing out about the accuracy I'm able to provide for part time jobs and bartending gigs from back when I was 21ish.
     
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  3. McCauley

    McCauley Medium Load Member

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    Actually it looks like they only require a five year history of non-driving jobs, then year history of driving jobs. This helps a lot.
     
  4. eugenethetrucker

    eugenethetrucker Bobtail Member

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    The way I see it, I think your stressing out too much over the application. Just fill out what you remember and make sure to not leave any gaps in your employment history. Just do a ballpark estimate when you worked and where. I highly doubt they will even call your previous employers. Trucking companies are so desperate for drivers that they will take just about anyone with a year of emploment and a clean driving record. I dont think it is very beneficial for you to disclose everything. The way I see it, the job recruiters never disclose everything about the job your applying for- just the positives. Play the game back to them and unless its something criminal/accident/serious, I dont think theres any need for them to know everything about your past.
     
  5. Big Don

    Big Don "Old Fart"

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    My last job, on the application, I forgot about a short term employment that was several years old. So what happens, I walk out onto the dock, on my first day of work, and the first person I see is a guy I used to work with at this employer. I went in and told my supervisor about it, he told me not to worry about, then pulled my application and told me to correct it. That is all there was to it.

    Now I do have a feeling, that if I had not remembered it, it might have come back to bite me, even though I left that employer on good terms. . .

    But the fact is, that we are all human, and humans are fallible. We have brain farts, but then so does the boss. So most people will take that into consideration.

    Of course, if you "forget" to put down a job you were fired from, or had worked at for many years, that could be a whole lot harder to explain.
     
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  6. Pahrump

    Pahrump Medium Load Member

    I retired a couple years ago and sold my equipment,,did heavy haul with my own authority,,Couple months ago I decided to go back driving as a company driver,,when I apply for jobs I out down I was self employed the past 30 years and was a carrier,,Companies accuse me of covering up my work history,
    Over 3 million accident and ticket free miles and not a job offer,,Of course I am selective . I always check out the carriers safety rating before I apply,,
    Looks like I will go out and buy an other new truck and trailer and haul for some of my old customers and a couple of high paying brokers.
     
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  7. Stlguy

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    Proving you were self employed isn't to hard to prove if you paid taxes. Show your tax returns that is if you paid taxes and if you didn't I see why they would say that.
     
  8. Pahrump

    Pahrump Medium Load Member

    Should not have to show anyone my private taqx returns,,I do when asked show them copies of my DOT authority..
    It's my age ,,there are several driver retiries in town fron 60 years old and older..they tell the same story,,carriers want young drivers with little experience so they can pay low wages. One friend in town who for 9n years ran the ice roads from Fairbanks to Purdoe AK found a job with Interstate out of Takoma,,wages were 29 cents/mile and he was 73 years oid,,In June he bought an other truck and went on his own.
    Way back in 07 after 2 years in a wheel chair after an auto wreck no one would hire me, I was in my fourties,,so I bought an other truck,,got my own authority again and make between 75 cents and $1.50/mile wages.. Ever wonder why Werner,Swift,Schneider and the other big carriers have been looking for driver and have a 75% to 150% driver turn over rate every year? It is because of slave wages and they do not want experienced driver. No BS way back in the mid 80's companies paid 25cents/mile or more,,I used to pay my drivers in 1987 28 cnts/mile. with full benefits and I still made money..Too many driver willing to work for wages less than Mexicans.. Here are the facts work the numbers your self..For every dollar a company pays a driver they out a dollar in their pocket, So if your company is paying you 40 cents per mile they are making 40 cents per mile or more profit after they pay you.. I have been a carrier for over 30 years until I retired,,I made a lot of money and paid my drivers well above union scale wages,, As long as carriers can hire and train anyone to drive a truck and long as carriers can sucker anyone to drive with no experience and as long as drivers have not guts to demand a decent salary wages for truck driver will be about the same as working at Wal-Mart
     
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  9. davenjeip

    davenjeip Medium Load Member

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    Depends on what the company wants to prove it. Can be really easy, or it can be next to impossible.

    I ran my own business for about three years, and had to prove it to several companies that I applied for.

    Easiest one just called me on my cell phone (my business number) and asked for me (the owner). Then they asked for me to verify the employment of me (the employee) for the time I had on the application. Don't think they realized they were the same person.

    Several of them just asked for my tax returns. I did and still feel like that was a little bit of a violation, but I needed a job so I did it. Hardest thing was making sure my scanned returns were in the format that they wanted.

    The ones that caused problems were the ones asking for a 1099. Thing is that you are only required to have 1099's for transactions over $600 (or was it total transactions to a single person? or maybe it was $700? Been a few years and I can't remember). Since the product I bought was never over $500 and my largest single sales were in the $400 range, I never had to do a single 1099. They couldn't figure out how to verify my employment without them. I'd go around in circles with them, until they would agree to just accept my tax returns. But, then I'd always get a call saying, "thanks for your tax returns, now all we need are your 1099's so we can finish up" and have to go through all of the BS again. Several companies just stopped calling altogether when they couldn't figure out how to get past this.


    So, it may be easy to prove to some companies, but not so easy to others. Just be sure to have all your records.
     
  10. KC63

    KC63 Bobtail Member

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    I also have been self-employed for the last 20 years (not trucking) and had to jump through a few hoops when applying to Prime so they could verify my employment history. I gave them tax returns for the past three years. Yes, it's private info, but what are they going to do with it other than verify I've been working for myself? No big deal.

    I also supplied them with contact info for a few clients from the current year. Again, no big deal - they just needed a way to confirm the info I provided on my application.

    I'm happy to say I was approved and will be starting orientation/PSD on Aug 11. :)
     
  11. McCauley

    McCauley Medium Load Member

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    This thread kind of went off the rails. Do any Prime employees have any advice on the first post?
     
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