Com-Check Scam ?

Without that code comcheck blanks, no matter where they come from are useless.

 

Some fuel desks have blank ComCheck's.

 

Nope. You have to have a code to authorize the check.

 

Doubt it. When I worked at a truck repair shop we kept blanks there for guys to pay us with.

 

I am glad the OP made the comment. Gives me a chance to give some advice to new drivers. This is the same advice I have received from my dad as well as some of the drivers from his generation. Buy a briefcase. Keep ALL your important documents in it. When I drove I kept my blank checks from my personal bank account in mine. I kept some emergency cash and a certified copy of my Texas Birth Certificate. I had copies of my prescriptions as well as a backup pair of glasses. My company gave us an employee handbook with CQ macro instructions, and mine was in it. I kept my vehicle title in mine. I also kept as many comcheck/EFS check blanks as I could get in it. It may come as a surprise to some but over the years I have had to produce at least once every document I kept in mine at least once. Some drivers have said (correctly I might add) that DOT officers sometimes will let clean trucks by. I have also had DOT officers tell me they were impressed I had my records organized the way I did. When I was driving and got out of my truck EVEN if I was just going to the fuel desk that briefcase went with me. I even took it with me when I took a shower. When I would get out to check into a hotel I got my shaving kit, laptop, and that briefcase, most of the time that was all I needed.

With today's e-logs keeping blank logbooks is not an issue. However, there were several things I made sure of before I left a company terminal. To make sure my permit book was current, make sure I had an extra transflo pad and those comcheck/EFS blanks.

 

Those comcheck are blank. There is a special number code you need to get from your Human resources or dispatcher or someone authroized to build a comcheck generate that special number you read it back and matches, only then you can turn in that filled out slip to get actual money or pay a actual bill.

These blanks do not work without that special code generated for it by the person who has already accepted you as authorized to use this code to get real money or bill paid. If you were a bum trying to embezzle money it's not going to happen with just the blanks.

That's one thing most truckers know about. However when a stranger or bum or non trucker hang around at the fuel line wants those I simply tell them it's just a fuel card, I use my own money away from the comcheck system. It would be nothing for him. So no harm done.

I literally stopped using comcheck and built my own savings decades ago, however it is possible to use one or two annually to solve special money problems like paying a landfill by weight to dump spoiled freight as happened a time or two.

 

If you wrote out your last check on top of the stack of checks. Someone might use a pencil to rub out those numbers and possibly cash a check if those numbers weren't cashed in yet

 

This is true. The person that writes those codes on a check and is not cashing the check in soon after is asking for trouble. I won't say the company because I am not suppose to know. A company once lost almost a thousand bucks because someone overheard the roadside service desk operator give out a code verbally. I always begged my company to give me those codes via the QC. In fact always do driver business through the QC because it records everything.