Company won't verify employment experience

Hammer1113 · Sep 11, 2019

greenllll said: ↑

What can a driver do if the company that he works for refuses to verify employment experience with other the trucking companies that are being applied to?

The whole point of putting up with some of these bad-reputation companies that will hire anyone without experience is to get experience and move on to a better paying trucking job, but what can a driver do if his current or previous trucking company refuses to verify that the driver drover for them, or how long, or offers an estimate of how many miles were ran?

This has to be another low for trucking companies. Will simply getting a DAC solve this problem? What if our pay-stubs are all online? Do we just copy down the web-pages, showing how much we got paid? Scan all bills of lading and put them on a web-page online and refer employers and insurance co's to that? Are lawyers needed, or are companies legally required to verify driving experience?
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Pay stubs will work. W-2 or 10-99 will work. If you can remember dates of DOT inspections ( good or bad ones) a perspective employer can verify them.

speedyk · Sep 11, 2019

If you have a cloud account online you can make a folder for each employer with scans of stubs and so forth. If a previous employer refuses to validate or drags its feet, you can send a download link to that folder.

I make a zip file of the folders so it makes it easier for the recipient, they just download, unpack, and it's all there, they can print copies for their files if needed.

Also helpful for when an employers needs scans of license, SS card, MVR, etc. Send them the link and they have it.

If you have your own domain and host account, most will include free software installs. I use Owncloud, free as in beer.

x1Heavy · Sep 11, 2019

BigJohn54 said: ↑

As many have said, always document everything. I have won twice in small claims court because of documentation. Both times I was written a check before leaving the court house. These people who prey upon folks depend on the fact that nobody documents anything. The look on their face when you produce documentation is priceless.

It has been a lot of effort to assemble and maintain records for the past 30 years but the 4 - 6 times I have used them they have paid big dividends. If you do this you probably won't need them very often. If you don't you will probably need them too often. I know which one I prefer.
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My favorite suit targets are those who breach statuary laws and bring suit against me.

They lose everytime to summary judgement. And take in some damages extry because they have been told specifically by me not to bring suit against Statuary laws. there were also some losses and damages as well to pay me extra on.

Documentation is king. Everything else is vocal BS. um, er. but, eh...

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