Past employment verification

The new employer simply documents the failure to respond and move on. If they don't want to do that, that's their decision and has nothing to do with the old employer.
I.e. they don't have to have that information, they just need to attempt to get it.
From 391.23(c)(2)
(2) The investigation may consist of personal interviews, telephone interviews, letters, or any other method for investigating that the carrier deems appropriate. Each motor carrier must make a written record with respect to each previous employer contacted, or good faith efforts to do so. The record must include the previous employer's name and address, the date the previous employer was contacted, or the attempts made, and the information received about the driver from the previous employer. Failures to contact a previous employer, or of them to provide the required safety performance history information, must be documented.

 

You could provide past W-2 forms from the employer who refuses to reply. That is enough to satisfy employment.

 

^^^^^this^^^^^

 

It sounds like THEY are going to have to sort it out. You have done everything right on your end apparently. Just speculating.......this may be a Red flag about your prospective employer. Did your previous employer give YOU a reason why they refuse to verify your prior employment? Sounds kinda weird to me. Good luck!

 

It's definitely a problem with the new company. I mean what do they do if a previous company has gone out of business?
I've also had a (non-trucking) company not give employment dates to new employers not because he's an ahole, but simply too lazy to look up the dates.

No, the new employer is the one causing the problem, and like mentioned above you have to wonder what else they get wrong and how that will effect your employment there.

 

Since your prospective employer can simply document the attempts they have made to contact your former employer and move on with the hiring process but are choosing not to I’d say you’d have a hard time suing your former employer because they haven’t done anything wrong.

 

It's asked if you want them to contact previous.

If you don't want. You can provide previous w2.

Isn't it just a employment verification anyways?