Copying identification cards at shippers?

Good luck with that.

 

If you want to stand up for something you believe in then why does it matter how many stand with you?

 

Sorry guys, there is no justification to do more with a driver's ID than to make sure the name is right. Scanning it provides everyone with two peices of information that can be used to find the rest. One is the full name and address and the other is the date of birth. I can use both of those and find everything about that person and use it to do some real damage.

I can't trust a shipper or even a receiver for that matter with my personal information. I do not expect my drivers to deal with the same bs and have told contracted customers to stick it if they are going to play stupid games because it tells me they don't trust me or my company.

 

Couldn't your customer then spin it and say well you don't trust us to handle your driver's personal info?

I agree, copies shouldn't be made. We just ask for name and what state their license is from. The only reason, pre covid, that we asked for the license was to spell the driver's name correctly, cause let's face it, Russian names are hard to spell. We didn't require you to hand it to us, just hold it so I could see it to copy the name.

Since covid, spell your name and I'll do by best to figure it out.

 

I get that. The only info we gather is name and state the license is from. Why the state? I dunno. I personally would accept a TWIC card as ID, provided you tell me what state the license was registered in. I wouldn't ask to see it. I would take your word for it. That way we both do our jobs successfully and all is well.

 

they can spin it any way they want, personal information isn’t required to complete the service and transaction.

see what I’m getting at is this …

if the customer is concern with theft or damaged product, they have no say in it, there is something called insurance.

all they can do is report it to the appropriate entity and move on, be it the police or fbi or the insurance company through their claim proces.

The entire purpose of the insurance company is to cover the problems what could happen, taking names and so on is not the shippers job. It comes down to the problems they further cause when they, the shipper acts as if they have the right to question everything when the carrier is a regulated entity, it is supposed to follow a set of rules that have no exceptions and that is part that the insurance company needs to cover the product.

 

How do you know the customer isn't demanding DL info BECAUSE their insurance company won't cover claims if they don't have that info about the stranger taking away their multi-thousand $ freight? I spent 3 years handing over my ID for HazMat loads/unloads and then 2 years handing over ID for van/reefer loads. I also, before any of that started, had a credit freeze (not credit protection, not credit monitoring, not worthless & expensive LifeLock, not some similar sounding phrase) and all mail going to my PO box and never once had any ID theft problems. YMMV

 

Insurance companies routinely make businesses change their activities to qualify for the insurance. It's a story as old as time. You have homeowners insurance and your aren't taking door locks off of your home and truck because they will give you a check if your stuff is stolen. That's the argument the BLM goons made when they were shoplifting whole stores and burning city blocks.