jacked up DAC!!!!

I don't know enuff about DAC's but what I found out today is the company I used to work for tells me they reported "incidents" (which I did have) that were preventable on my DAC as required by law.....NO accidents. The company I'm trying to lease on to tells me that they reported "accidents" (which I've never had since I started legally driving 4 wheelers 17 yrs. ago).....oh boy, here we go! Proably find out more monday....someone messed up and I'm gonna pay for it. Thanks for lettn' me vent.

 

You are correct and I'm well aware of that. But, the company I just lefts safety lady concerning what they report to DAC looked at my record and stated that, "You have 5 preventable INCIDENTS, which which the DOT requires us to report preventables, but these should not be reported as accidents." She then went further to state, "Maybe this guy doesn't know how to read what he's looking at." (In refrence to the guy at Landstar who told me they were reported as preventable accidents).
-Why she says they're required to report those, when a previous poster just showed they don't have to, I don't know. (Nor, really, do I care. As I stated they happened....but if they're supposed to be reported as incidents, then that's what they should be reported as....this would obviously have a huge difference of impact on my future employment).
-Her saying they had to report preventable accidents/or incidents was in resoponse to my asking her, "I ran over 200,000 miles for you guys and NEVER damaged anything except company property, why would you report that? I'm not mad, I just want to understand."

-This is just what I've been told by other people....I'm not making up my own opionions here. (these people being the two safety people in charge of reporting/reading DAC information at the two different companies).
-If the occurences where to be reported as accidents....then so be it, what can I do? But if the company safety lady says herself, "These should have been posted as incidents not accidents." Then somebody isn't doing their job correctly at one of the two agencies. I don't know about you, but I always paid for it if I didn't do my job correctly.
-I'll get my DAC, call previous employer mon. (she didn't have time to pull DAC herself Friday, but made her statemets based on looking at my company file, which SHE says is the only info. they would post on my DAC).
-And call to check with possible future employer on the outcome.
Keep ya'll posted if your curious, or for anyone who could stand to be educated by the outcome for ther future use.
Thanks for your replies and info.

 

O.K.....for the education of you drivers...
As said in previous posts and in orientation....incidents are viewed as accidents....though not actually by the company....but by DAC and a future employer.

The old company safety lady says she checked into it and there company file lists me as having; 5-preventable-non DOT reportable "incidents" and 0-"accidents."
-Then DAC's computer system uploads the information from theirs and changes it to;
5-preventable-Non DOT reportable "incident/accidents."

-So the statement that, "We view incidents the same as accidents." Isn't correct....they don't, BUT YOUR DAC WILL.

I said to her, "So your telling me that my scraping a bumper on at truck is the same as if I go out in the street and run over a parked car with the trailer?"

-Old companies safety lady replies, "Well, no, not to us it isn't."
My reply, "Well, now to any perspective employer, it is."

-So you guys had the right idea....orientation had the end result correct....same thing.

And I just went from having over 2 years otr, with 5-incidents and managing to keep 0-accidents....to 5 accidents. I may as well just gone down the street and hit 5 cars then scraped a bumper trying to avoid having an actuall accident......

-Hope this goes to re-enforce already thought ideas, or educate others into the future of what can occur......

 

Thank you.....

 

o.k.....ordered a DAC and am gonna talk to them...(they have someone talk to you, didn't request to fight anything....as the previous employer entered the correct info, Dac changes it to accident because of the term "preventable" before "preventable incident" even though the company safety lady says they have me listed as only having preventable incidents).
-Also am asking for a letter from company stating that they view me as having incidents and no accidents......

Hope this helps someone in the future.