Applications/Resume Writing

You read the application and fill it out according to the instructions. So if it asks your past 10 years employers, but not just trucking companies while when it says you need to provide all dot regulated jobs, you put them down.

I ask for everything, there are patterns that I look for, but then most (90%) now use AI to filter applicants so patterns are one thing that gets people’s apps tossed.

 

Jobs don’t show up on your MVR, that’s for driving infractions. Have you worked for companies that report to Hireright?

 

The PSP was a good source of 'finding' employment not listed on the application when the applicant's roadside inspection shows more DOT numbers than the number of employers shown on the actual application.

Used to be ANY employment discrepancy found was immediate denial/termination for 'Falsification'.

People dealing with the processing of part 391 files tend to develop the ability to sense when there is too much that doesn't match and anything that catches their attention will get investigated.

Any local companies will have some interaction at insurance seminars and similar events attended by people with the same responsibilities making phone contacts easy.

All that aside, it is impossible to catch everyone who may 'adjust' some employment dates wanting to hide something.

The first fatal I was involved with was a port driver who was less than honest about his involvement in the accident.

After our insurance settled the claim, I never received any past employment requests for this guy.

I never saw this person even though he was based at the local terminal near the corporate office.

Five years later, I'm at another company and take 3 applications and this guy is part of the group.

Seeing his name, I quickly looked and saw how he showed constant employment with some of the dates adjusted to hide the carrier where he was involved in said fatal accident.

We didn't lease him on but I'm sure he is probably STILL working.

 

Get your free Hire Right report once a year. SOME trucking companies buy a subscription to Hire Right and read & post entries about their drivers. Other trucking companies DO NOT tell Hire Right anything about drivers. Just read the exact question asked on the application and answer that exact question. I get the impression you are behaving shady for some reason, as if you have something to hide. At some point you may learn living like the cops and the boss are always watching means you don't have to run some complicated operation to find out what they know and then sculpt an application that hides what you want hidden but answers their question. Maybe I misinterpret what I'm reading. I had a little something shady in my past, and anticipated working in a much more regulated industry, until it failed. So I entered trucking thinking I'd also have to do things I think you are considering. It turns out I was expecting trucking to be like a CIA screening process when it is just standard business practices with a drug screen. Once hired I made Job #1 living clean and open and living like a model citizen. It turns out that was easier and didn't require half of the effort required to cover up stuff.

 

No employer is listed on an MVR. You've mentioned "one band isn't even listed on MVR". Yeah, no band or employer SHOULD be on ANY MVR.
Imagine if I said "I don't understand my my credit card statement doesn't show what food I ordered at the restaurant where I used my card." The CC statement is supposed to list that detail, just the location, date, amount, merchant code. So not seeing that one band on your MVR is what you are supposed to be seeing on the MVR. I may be confused about what you mean or you use MVR when you mean something else. MVR lists accidents, tickets & citations. They don't list employers. Why do you think one band should or might be on your MVR, did you run over that band or did they run over you in a traffic accident?