Truckers appeal in case against DAC Services
5/17/07
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The Truckers Report Merchandise

I am bumping up this older news story up for a dialouge.

If the DAC is a system that is put in place to track a Driver's worth and reliability factor, there must be a check and balance with what is put in there by present and past employers.

Drivers should be notified with any and all activity within the record.

There should be a process for a driver to dispute entries they feel are wrong.

I don't even want to suggest that the Government should get involved with this, but the way this is structured it is a private club that controls the livelihood of drivers, funded by Trucking Companies to control the hired help. Their own little Union if you will.

I don't like the thought of lawyers getting involved, but maybe being able to bring suit on Companies who knowingly or carelessly place false entries in the DAC could be a step in the right direction.

This system of the DAC may be a good idea but the way it is operated it is in place for the Companies to use and abuse at will. There must be an accountability factor involved here.

How could you fix or administer this service to be fair and helpful.

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Charlie

Bringing suit against companies and winning would be a step in the right direction . But suing and losing , then having appeals denied as OOIDA did does more harm than good .

Not if you're OOIDA. This ought a b good for several more new dudes. Yes I'm member. A "Lifer". They're all about that "name in the news" thing. But don't ask'em to help one person on the QT. And just as a member benefit in good faith without any addtional monetary compensation. Forget about it. Purely my opinion. But that's why I'm a "Lifer". I paid for the priviledge.

I do agree with the feeling that truckers should get more consideration for the amount of potential effect this reporting could have. But unlike OOIDA we're not DAC's customers. We can buy copies of the reports but we don't pay for the services. So just like OOIDA it's about money and future money.

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Headed the Wrong Way...makin Real Good Time!

OOIDA is better than nothing! Dac has been around a while and is no more than a blackball service. They have changed their name from DAC to USIS (United States investigative service) just to try to imtimidate drivers who contact them. THEY ARE NOT A GOVERNMENT AGENCY,but try real hard to play one.

Govt involvement usually sucks... but in this case:
1) they need to be investigated and
2) there should be a board with professional drivers that is part of an arm set up to be a watchdog of this group and the companies that use them.

Bottom line though... they need regulating. It is indeed a blackball group, and a knife at the throat of every driver.

Unfortunately, the need to bring in government regulation of this is probably there... as it stands now, it's an unregulated blackball agency used to undermine and ruin people's lives with no regard to fact or truth and no way to regulate this group. There should be strict adherence to guidelines to assure factual reporting and strict penalties for those found to be inaccurate. Companies should be fined, heavily, and be held open to prosecution if found to be filing false and inaccurate reports, and this "agency" should be held equally liable. There should also be compensation and protection for those injured. Regulation is needed.

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“The goal is to transform how DAC operates and to prevent drivers from being DAC’d by motor carriers who use such reports as instrumentalities of harassment and oppression,” said Jim Johnston, OOIDA president and CEO.

i liked that bit the best. another one of my worries about trucking. i'm starting to develop a SCREW THIS INDUSTRY mentality ... is there anything positive that goes on at all? is there any company that's not out there to bend you over?

if i sound angry, you're right ... i am. i'm pissed that no matter which company (big or small) i look at, there's nothing but BS waiting around the corner. i'm even more pissed that THIS is the industry i've wanted to be part of since i was a kid.

so, you can say i am let down. i am really approaching the end of my rope with all of this. if you make it through school, you have to get hired. if you get hired, you have to stay hired. if you decide to move on and pursue other oportunities, you get blasted by the sorry retard company you left behind in the first place, rendering yourself unhirable by them or anyone else.

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And it's official: I Start school in Lewiston, ID - 15 Oct 08

agreed DAC is like a good ole boys club that companies cling too as if it were the gospel of all gospels when in reality it is not a reliable source of information, it is so true that companies can blackball you in this industry with the click of a mouse or the flick of a pen simply because you got tired of their garbage and decided to better yourself.

This BS agency has already cost me two jobs, and I am still waiting for a copy. The only thing I ever did was get off a truck 4 years ago to care for my dying mom who was in a coma. God knows what this report says... we'll see when I get it... if I get it. I have DD security clearance, no priors, clean mvd report...and am clean and sober... don't drink, no drugs, don't smoke. I am clean as a baby's butt, we have people who can't speak English driving and I can't even get a job offer. What is that all about? I'm ready to move to Costa Rica. Screw this place.

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