DAC report wait time BS

After I was hit by a drunk driver at the tail-end of my 2 week vacation, and was unable to work because I was on crutches for 3 weeks after the accident, I was "automatically fired" from my job because I had not pulled a load in 4 weeks.

Note: I was in my personal vehicle and the other driver was arrested. I was not ticketed, and I was not fired because of the accident. I told my company that I was unable to work because of my injured situation, I was fired "automatically" purely based on the fact that I had not pulled a load in 4 weeks. Company policy or some such.

This week i am finally able to walk again without crutches and I'm trying to get another job. I requested a copy of my DAC report 2 weeks ago from Hire-rite to make sure there wasn't anything incorrect on there.

After my initial request, I received a correspondence by email that they would send me a copy of my DAC report in 5-7 business days.

I didn't get the DAC report after 5-7 business days. I called Hire-rite to find out what was going on, and their phone operator said it would instead take 15 business days in contradiction to the e-mail they sent me.

My phone converastion went like this:

Me: I'm sure the DAC report is a computer file, why can't you just send it to me now

Operator: Well there is a procedure and a process, and that takes 15 days.

Me: If a company requested my DAC report prior to hiring me, I'm sure you would get it to them in a shorter period of time.

Operator: Well there are different procedures and processes for that kind of request.


This is such a pile of BS. This is completely unfair to the driver. This drawn out process is preventing me from applying, because I don't know whats on the report. There is no reason for this to take 15 days.

There were 2 incidents with my previous company that were not my fault. I NEED to know that they did not incorrectly pin the blame on me.

 

Yes, I do not want my old job back. I was actually planning on moving on because they screwed me out of lumper re-imbursements, layover pay, and also did not pay me for 1 week of vacation even though I was entitled to 1 week of vacation pay because I had worked there for over a year.

Prior to going on vacation, I told my manager that I wanted to use my vacation time, but when I got my check, it was negative for that week (negative because of health care premium) because he didn't bother to put it through.


The whole company was completely incompetant.

One of the incidents that I'm worried about was when my truck was hit by another driver at the company terminal, who was later fired because of the incident. His fault, I was in the sleeper birth when he screwed up trying to park next to me and hit my truck.

For 4 months they did not fix the damage because it was cosmetic, however when they finally did fix it, I got a call from safety demanding to know why I had "unreported damage" to my truck.

In the 4 months between the incident and the repair they had completely forgotten about what happened and why they fired the other driver.

I need to make sure they did not pin the blame on me in my DAC report.

 

Ok, Got my DAC this morning.

There was nothing in it, no employment history or anything.

Only one note that my company requested a background check prior to hiring me 1 year, + 9 months ago.