What all goes on your driver report?

You shouldn't have reported it.
Sometimes a company won't put it on your DAC report until you decide to quit, then they slam you trying to force you not to quit.
If the company has already put the two incidents on your DAC you can see it on www.hireright.com

 

I don’t know what and when things go on there.

I worked my first job for 8 years. Gave a 2 week notice and 1 week after that was working for another company. Not a single thing on my DAC report, nada. I got a full copy from them when they pulled it. But they verified my previous employment

Not a small company, around 2,000 drivers

 

You can pull your own reports at any time usually for a fee. (And should.) I pulled my own and it;s clean as a whistle because anything going back more than 7 to 10 years by law has to be erased.

Many years ago DAC used to be a enforcement tool where certain problems drivers are banned from the industry for life for things like cargo theft, drunken driving with a semi etc. But things have been watered down in recent years as the so called need for cheap new drivers to come into the industry has become acute.

Not cheap new drivers but actually drug and alcohol free insurable accident and abandonment free drivers. It's getting harder to keep out of trouble.

Im not worrying so much about the little rub or a few bolts busted (Been there done that and sometimes had it fixed...) but rather the idea you have to report every little thing. That's eventually going to fill a folder with your name on it after a certain internal number of incident points are reached, you are dismissed.

 

those are incidents and usually are not in the dac or any records the company provides future employes .... ask your safety department what's on your dac most will tell you .if they are not "public records " you shouldn't include them on any application

 

Ok you got me.

I'll defend my position with a scenario that actually happened.

I was with JBH in the last week literally the second to last load delivered in my OTR work into Buffalo Ford Assembly. I punched the bolts on the trailer door up and down the 6 or so bolts from top to bottom on the left door. Because I failed to keep a box of spare half inch bolts I had to satellite message my dispatcher not to reload me anywhere until I find new bolts to fix my door that was falling off. (My fault)

Turns out he used the information and sent a truck out with the bolts and a man to put em on and that's that. Over and done with let's go we are late. Probably 8 bucks in bolts was the actual damage. Hardly worth reporting. But in classic form that door would not stay on that trailer the way it was losing bolts. Follow me?

Now one day in FFE we picked up a load. In the Lancaster Yard. Temp was right, reefer was full and humming. Cucumbers I think to Mt Olives in MN. Maybe. not sure. I'll have to check that journal.

We were a husband wife team and were in MN in a jiffy. Essentially next day. Pulled into Mt Olives and they sniffed at the load and rejected all of it. Spoiled. Stinking rotten, bad. Bad. bad and bad.

Oh boy. Here is a facility that needs this stuff and sitting empty not working because the rotted load. Sometime is fixing to be fired. It might be me and wife.

I called OSD told them of the rejected and rotted load. There was a period of silence for about 2 hours while FFE ran through the lost load problem which cost a whole lot of money. Essentially a investigation.

It turned out the yard boy had the trailer run out of fuel for a while before he came out with a clipboard and temp reading pencil. It was hours before that trailer was found to be empty, thawing off temp and so on. Long before we got the dispatch there for it.

We don't see that yard boy anymore. Broker paid I think 1200 dollars to the landfill which took the whole rotted mess. I don't know the total loss value of the entire load but Im pretty sure FFE being big enough probably ate the loss. Roughly 45000 dollars would be my guess rather than file insurance on it.

If you go into a drop lot somewhere and you find a trailer left by the previous driver in really bad damage state not acceptable for travel without repairs? YOU have the pleasure of telling that to dispatch and ask to arrange for it to be fixed before you will put it on your 5th wheel. YOU did NOT do the damage but someone did and you can bet if it's serious enough the company will investigate and maybe fire that SOB who failed to report something that big.

Once in a while I break something with the company truck. I already know dispatch is not exactly loving me too much so I get the credit card out and have the 76 shop people fix it and pay cash or credit in my own bank money for that. This was before the days of computers keeping records tied to a particular truck with a history tracable to that time and date of work, damage etc.

As far as the company was concerned the truck damage was repaired, Mechanic signs my pretrip report as defect repaired and we are on our way.

Should I have reported that boo boo and maybe get fired? Heh. It depends on how big that boo boo is. Follow me?

I have been fired in the past for causing damage too big for just me and my cash money to fix in a couple hours. It is what it is. After a time that accident comes off the DAC and I don't have to explain to the new employer about that story. here is one example.

Sayre NY. VA Clinic off a three lane divided highway, being built. I had a spread axle roofing load for it. Shingles I think. Anyhow. Foreman says turn into the lot and we will unload. I say no because the curbwork they just built will be broken by my first trailer axle.

So around and around we yell. He uses profane langauge get that *(&^ in my lot now, I say NO I wont.

Finally I told him I'll get the #### thing into your lot. But you just about lost half a day building that pretty curbing. It's going to get broken. He puffed up and advanced on me and I told him it's what is going to happen. That trailer WILL NOT fit the way it is sits.

It did not fit. Damage 900 dollars plus lost wages etc. It would be three employers before they quit asking me about that particular accident placed into my DAC.

That clinic is still there to this day. And sometimes I visit it on google earth to see if any other trucks has broken that curbing again. Heh.

 

Ok, what you are asking about is a private company and it's report. As such any company can pay them money to get a report, and they can put anything (truthful, there are libel laws) they want to on the report. Or nothing. 100% dependent on what the company wants to report.

 

I just pulled my PSP.

It showed all my inspections.

It showed my bridge length violation (no citation). Fun story on that one. ALWAYS visually inspect locking pins on both sides after sliding tandems, natch.

It does NOT show a preventable collision, no injuries, no citations, property damage approx $1500.