Is a tire blowout considered a reportable n your dac?

Definitely do what it takes to get this bogus BS removed. Understand that some companies will use DAC as sort of a weapon against you. This is to eliminate your choices on down the road, meaning you'll probably have to stay right where you are if they DACmark you. Yeah, believe it. These outfits will use DAC to help them solve their turnover problems. When they bust your DAC, you look less attractive to a competing carrier and may not be able to go elsewhere. You'll be stuck right where you are, holding their steering wheel and no one else's.

Good luck getting this off. I don't think you'll need that luck, as it should be fairly easy. But go in like a mad tiger.

 

I don't think a employer can personally give out that information. Only a reporting agency can such as DAC.
Employers are very limited in what they can say far as a passed employee.
Basically "would you rehire" question
and attendance..

I could be wrong but I am pretty sure that's all they could say. I was limited by a company I used to work for when I was about previous employees.


Far as DAC goes the entire reporting system is flawed and definitely is not a credible information system. Employers can report anything they want and have it effect you getting into a job with another company. You have to go threw a 30 day rebuttal which you may be out of work for the entire process's. Anybody at the company can report negative information on your DAC down to your dispatcher (we all know they tell the truth).

DAC should give you the opportunity to feud any information being reported "BEFORE" it goes onto your recored.
This would be a fair and almost accurate reporting agency unlike they currently have.


A tire blow out? that's just lame and never should be reported by DAC....

I had 3 blow outs within 3 months..... Does that mean I was lazy and did not check my equipment??????????????
(dislike people assuming its the driver as in other post being posted in this thread.)
Well let me tell you I do check my equipment, How about companies trying to save money and running poor tires on thier trailers.......?????????????? that would be my first assumption then to just to blame a driver.......
Company I worked for ran crappy tires on the trailers and had 3 blowouts... 110 degree heat across AZ and CAL did not help neither..
needless to say I don't work for that comp[any anymore...

 

I don't know much about the DAC or the associated issues. Despite that fact, I'll ask if this entity is approachable with a phone call? I've accomplished some fairly expensive things for free that were the result of a simple phone call and talking to the right person. For example and this isn't exactly relevant but you can get a free change of address for your corporate record in the State of Florida if you handle it by e-mail. Otherwise, it's something like 150.00 regular mail. Had I not called and talked to the right person, I wouldn't have known this. Good luck.

 

no. its not a reportable accident.

 

If you fart in a terminal, your outfit can report it. You have to live with that or get out of the industry. But companies know most drivers won't get out, as most drivers are more or less stuck where they are, and any driver who gets out can be easily replaced by a greenie from a mill. This reality gives companies more or less the license to do whatever they wish to drivers who act up and/or don't tow the line. Anyone who protests bad treatment in any way (including posting here) is jeapordizing his job and ultimately his career if he is discovered. Yeap, DAC's purpose is to control drivers, and companies use it as sort of a 'nuclear option' to eliminate drivers' choices. And for the ultra-stubborn drivers, DAC also allows companies to use their so-called "problem children" as examples of what happens when one challenges the status quo. Any driver who rebels against 'what is' is taken to the cleaners and held up for all to see as a warning to other drivers who may be thinking of doing the same. DAC works. That's why DAC has been around for years and will be around for years to come.

Come on. You thought you live in a FREE country? Wake up. The USA is a paradox. People who are free still have to be ruled somehow, and in the USA, it's by market-instituted 'laws'. DAC is one example of that. It's no different from what you will see in a place like North Korea.

Take away a driver's freedom to work where he wants and for whom he wants and you'll have him shackled. Drivers who have no choices available to them in the land of free choices make a great pool of people to exploit. Welcome to the world of DAC. Again, I have to advise anyone who wants to get into trucking to explore other career avenues. I got out of trucking mainly because of DAC and the CDL regs. I dumped my class-A and don't plan on getting it back, at least not as long as DAC exists.

 

Boy this company would have had a freaking field day with me in 1997. I was hauling turkey for Oscar Meyer weiners and had a wheel EXPLODE the RR inner rim broke at the hub were I could not have seen it in a pretrip at all then slammed into the outer and cut it. Took out the front axle tires also and cut the air lines on the trailer while doing 68 MPH lostthe other side at the same time.

I had to replace 8 tires 2 rims air lines and my shorts on that one. Yet this company that would DAC you in a heartbeat never did a thing to me.

 

Remember corporate America? Lots and lots of big money, DAC a tool to control drivers, Oh yea, I believe. You can always jump ship and become a traitor, like I did, Class "B" family run, hourly pay, clean and good equipment and almost no BS. Anyway with two years you may be able to get something local or a smaller company, the bigger the company the bigger the headaches.

 

You're not a traitor. As long as you're a hard worker and take of yourself and your family, who could call you a traitor? You pulled yourself up by your boot straps, made some wise choices, and now are all the better for it.

You sound like a patriot, actually.

What kind of job is that you're talking about? Bus driving?