It has been a while since I was on here. I plan to apply to a company out of the PNW to run OTR. I plan to fill out the application today. For about 6 months last year, I drove an an expediter for two different owners which I ended up leaving. First owner never paid me (he still owes me a grand) and the other owner, was not honest with his drivers, and have also been cheating us. The question I have is how should I go about those issues on my application?
The Company is required to call any company that has to do with DOT for the past 10 years. 3 years for every other company. Nobody cares about what happened elsewhere if you can do the job. Do whatever you wish.
Federal law also prohibits those former employers from saying anything but rehire or not,so write them down. New employer probably won't be able to reach them anyhow.
I always put reason for leaving is "for better pay and benefits." Many of those small mom & pop outfits aren't what thet're cracked up to be. I worked for 2 different ones in my early career and both were a nightmare and big mistake for me. Edit: If your potential new employer presses you for details, tell the truth, "I still haven't been paid any money for my time working there." As for the other place, "I still haven't been paid what I was promised when I accepted the job."
You have to account for all time. This is a Homeland Security thing. If you were home for say 6 years as a caregiver as I was for Spouse post chemo I have to tell any trucking company that time going back 7 to 10 years. They don't care that I did home caregiving for 6 years. But Homeland Security requires this information so they can make sure I did not say run off to the ME and get ISIS training or something in between jobs with that time gap. Regarding unpaid wages or work delivered by your employer cheating you. I would strongly recommend talking to the state's labor board with documentation supporting this work that was unpaid to you. That would be where I start. I have a pizza shop owner years ago who stiffed my pay about 320 dollars in total against me as a pizza driver and in addition got caught underpaying child labor who were minor children in his shop. By the time Maryland got through with him and notified me formally how much I am owed, he filed BK. I can tell you right now with a 3 million dollar house in central Maryland and a whole lot of people feeling not so paid will eventually get theirs one way or another somehow somewhere. (It's not a threat. People tend to do certain things in life when they are owed big money relatively speaking.) I will always be grateful for the People in central maryland who tipped me well when I ran the pizza to them. They have been more than gracious with the tips. I never imagine there were so many good people in the area and that helps my morale and outlook very much because I tend to be a grump or a cloudy rain most days. I should have known something was up when the shop owner would show up on a Friday afternoon and put both ring encrusted fists into the store cash register and take just about all of it without saying a word. You are looking at potentially thousands some nights in cash back then. It's his store. But to get a little primal, he was always chasing trophy women. Ive always believe that women by and large are very good but how in the world one or two end up with a sleaze bag like him, I will never understand it.
FromFsomeone who hires people and reads the applications. Be honest, if somebody ripped you off put on there that you left because they never paid you. It's the truth. If someone was mistreating you write down how they they mistreated you. It will most likely come up in the interview so it might as well be on the application.
