Dac report question..

Did a stupid mishap 1ST week as a new driver w/Prime which was reported to DAC as a preventable accident which it probably was but as a rookie that didn't come clean how it occured to save my job, it made me lose the job.
It however was an incident with no witnesses and no police report was made, does that mean Prime couldn't say what they did on the DAC?

 

i imagine they can print almost whatever they want and i believe it is up to you to clean up the mess at your expense. sad as it seems give crete a call ask for Heather Waite in recruiting tell her Eric Markey sent you and she can and will do her best for you . i make no promises other then without having my self working for prime i can just base my opinion on heresay .but i believe you would be alot happier at crete

 

if you have been "DAC'd" by Prime for a preventable, then its a done deal...YOU can call it an incident, but the safety dept after checking things out, found you guilty.....so in answer to your question....?? YES, Prime can say that.

 

Have the cdl A from 2 years ago and was a student at Prime for 95%
of the time incident free and go solo and screwed up with a bad turn
in an urban area and scraped the trailer and wasn't up front how it happened.
Prime let me go and dac's got negative info, need to get experience somewhere and even take training again hopefully company paid
or discounted... any non- dac truckin starter companies that would
be willing to give me a shot at it again? An Eric recommended Crete
and it was a no go, mainly because of the discharge and lack of exp. /plus too many jobs in 2 years (non driving) even though some
were part-time and overlapping

 

Not true. Your employer can report any type of incident, even those where there was no property damage. What your prospective employer sees is the date, preventable, non-preventable, amount of damage in dollars, and maybe a brief description of what happened.

Other DAC myths-

"My dispatcher screwed up my DAC, because (s)he didn't like me."

Not true. Dispatchers almost never have DAC access. They can drop a written statement in your DQ file, but in my experience, corporate safety and human resources give them very little weight, unless they were asked to submit a statement by management.

"I worked for a non-DAC company, so that abandonment won't show up".

DAC offers different levels of service to subscribing carriers. The higher tiered service includes the 10 year backround check where DAC does all the faxing, phone calls and legwork involved. If you worked for a non-DAC company, it can still show up on your report, based on what information they release. This is often where mis-information gets added to your backround, in my opinion. Non-DAC companies have recordkeeping methods that don't line up with the standard DAC form. So your ex-employer or a DAC rep has to make a square peg fit in a round hole. They end up "tweeking" the info so it fits.

 

Thanx for pointing this out.

Let's say DAC provides the high end service to "Jah-Bib Trucking".
I apply to Jah-Bib Trucking for a driver job.
DAC reels in the dirty on me.
Will DAC post the dirty directly? ... or will they hand it over to Jah-Bib Trucking, & leave Jah-Bib w/ the choice of applying it to my Dac report or not.

Someone reading this post may ask, Why do I ask? Does the difference really matter?

For one thing, it seems that if DAC applies the dirt themselves, it may possibly open doors to legal issues.
Also; If Jah-Bib is a decent company, they may simply use the dirt to determine that you don't qualify for the job, but not stick it to your DAC just because they can.

 

There's a standard yada-yada disclosure clause in the paperwork they send you that says, in effect, that all backround information optained by DAC becomes their property. Which pretty much means they can release it to any client, provided they have a signed release from the driver who is applying for a job.

 

Lease deal or company if you did not return the truck where they wanted.. you may have got a abandoment. May have a very hard time getting another job,cause they dont want the cost of getting a truck back you decided to drop somewhere you wanted too. I find it very funny all the people day after day that dont take the advice on lease deals and fail!!!!If owning a truck was such a money maker why would you think, the company is trying to lease it to you?

 

Looks as the best thing to avoid being a DAC victim is to be a owner operater, whats the criteria for being an independant
trucker and what's having your 'authority' about can you be a new driver and be an owner, and is there an insurance requirment for having so much experience?

 

if a person wants to be an o/o, then said person had better have experience as a driver that can be verified. the insurance premiums are thru the roof for inexperienced o/o's who just want to avoid DAC....so it's "not the best thing"......