Service Failures...

While your are technically correct your leaving out one very important thing. YOU have to provide your next company with your employment history and per 383.35 the reason you left. If the first company has you listed as a do not rehire you had better have a dang good reason, and I have a serious doubt any company will accept a "well abc carriers screwed me over" as an excuse.

 

I can't speak for other drivers only myself. In my career if I had a service failure it was due to things beyond my control. Weather and Truck breakdowns are bad enough, but as I put in my first post my company sometimes put loads or repowers on me that were already late. I hated getting those dang late repowers because it made me look bad.

 

some of us dont even care how we look,smell or dress and you want us to show up on time..haha !!

 

With the current hours of service it is very possible to get held up at a shipper, or in weather or backups and deliver late.
The rip It up and redo it days are about over.

 

Thankfully most of the companies have load planners and account managers that stay in contact with the customers and can get appointments changed. This is why it is critical that you stay in contact with your company. I have had to sit at a shipper or receiver and do my 10 hour break many times. If I was under another load I did the math and made sure I had time to get there, otherwise I told my company and they would tell me to go ASAP and they would handle getting a new app time.

 

Yes, but you do not have to supply the company with your service failure history. (As per what the OP was asking) Also If your not fired and just gave your two weeks and left there is no excuse that has to be made. They will never know about service failures.

 

I know what you are saying, and I agree with you 100%. But the service failure thing is IMO, another example of electronic cattle prodding. Slackers are bad for business. It strains the relationship between the company and the customers. Now a slacker isn't someone that was late delivering a load. A slacker is habitually late. Fire him. Put someone in the rig that can perform. That's the way it's done in every other profession. Yeah, some kid gets a $50 deal to play ball, but if he can produce, they cut him. Why do trucking companies keep so much dead weight? Trim the fat. Makes for a much more efficient company.

When I was a company driver, they started me off at $.44/mile. I got $250 for every time I cross the Canadian border. I got $100/day detention plus motel. I got $50 tarp pay. I made a name for myself as a hard charger. Because of this, I was always preplanned. Hot loads paid me double rate. We made stupid money as company drivers. No cattle prodding, cash prodding. Have finance? Have romance. No finance? No romance.

Some of us are self motivated. We don't need a desk jockey to coddle us and hold our hands. If I am away from the house, I am working.

You get a load on Tuesday, run 750 miles, arrive at the receiver on Wednesday. Receiver says that your company had promised that you would be there on Tuesday. What just happened? Did some desk jockey throw a driver under the bus?

Anyway, someone in an office thinks that cattle prods is a way to improve slacker and Braindead safety and productivity. "Prod him. Don't pay him." I'm a capitalist. Want to win the big game? Assemble the best players and the best coaches. If a wide receiver was given a service failure every time he dropped a pass, would that inspire him to do better? If a QB got a service failure every time he threw an interception, would he strive to get better?

See, they believe that they can train a money to do the job. Yeah, you can probably teach a monkey to throw a football too, but I will bet my life that you would never see a monkey quarterback win a Super Bowl ring. All you people in an office that think that you can train a moron to do my job, I laugh at you. Want to beat me? You're going to have to pay for talent. Your Dumb and Dumber programs and your automated trucks will never measure up.

 

If you are fired because of service failures this is the reason for the termination and YOU are required to disclose this reason to your next company. You can try to water it down and say it was because of things beyond your control but you have to tell them the basic facts of the job action, there is no way around it and stay legal and not have to worry about them finding it out later.

 

As to the OPs question NO service failures do not follow you as long as the service failures are not the reson your looking for a new job. Otherwise they will follow you to your next job.