Abandoned truck placed on record instead of medical emergency.

Work for local companies. They don't use DAC. And won't even care.

 

Whoa, I'm on your side, and it is pretty harsh, but in our electronic world, it tends to leave out certain details, and doesn't say how long the truck may have sat, and in their eyes, the truck was abandoned. I highly doubt the details of the abandonment will be disclosed, and I'm sure how the company, or future companies will view it. This is nothing more than the crybaby company trying to get even, and you know what, looks like they succeeded.

 

HireRight (formerly known as DAC) is a consumer reporting agency. This means that they are the same as any other consumer reporting agency and subject to federal law. According to federal law, your friend has the right to dispute information he believes is inaccurate contained in the report from HireRight that has been provided to persons who have requested it. So, he would request a copy of the report from HireRight himself, and then dispute the entry that he has issue with or wants to dispute, same as he would an inaccuracy on his consumer credit report, except rather than with a credit bureau, your friend disputes it with HireRight. HireRight is subject to the same time frame to investigate the dispute, and if found that the information report is not valid or inaccurate, HireRight must remove it.

If your friend was told that this was why he was not hired by someone else, I think, but I am not certain, that the employer who told him this, that he wasn't eligible for hire because of information contained in the HireRight (remember, a consumer report), that the employer should have provided a copy of the report to your friend as well, and I think that is so according to federal law as well. I believe it was something relating to a notice of adverse action, or adverse action notice. If he was already provided a copy of the report with the information he believes to be inaccurate, he could attempt disputing the information using that report. But as someone who has disputed information on his own reports, I would still recommend getting the copy of it himself, so that he has the most recent and "current" report.

Your friend could also, under Regulation V of the Fair Credit Reporting Act dispute the reported information directly with the furnisher, who would be the employer who reported it, just as he could directly with a creditor who reported information on his consumer credit reports. Although, in his situation, I would just dispute it with HireRight.

 

I'm sure any decent attorney would tell you to NOT do this; you/he needs to be "injured" by this company's actions first, in other words, needs to be rejected for just this reason, with letters attesting to this fact. Before you do / he does ANYTHING, contact an attorney!!!

 

The question is.....did he communicate everything with the company? If all he did was clear out the truck and leave it there, combined with leaving the company in the dark about his medical issues, then he's going to have a time getting that abandonment off of his record. If he stayed in contact with the company, communicated with safety about his medical issues, then they will give specific instructions on what to do with the truck and where to leave the truck ao it can be recovered. All of that communication is a paper trail. If all he did was go to the hospital, get treatment, and go home without having any dialogue with the company, then its abandonment. I'm inclined to believe, reading your post, that he only talked to the the doctors without talking to the company.

I had a medical situation myself and got temporarily disqualified from driving for 5 months. I stayed in contact with the company, and they instructed me to leave the truck at the Pilot in Troy, IL. Clean transition to get it, and take it back to our terminal in Union, MO. I think your friend left a few stones unturned.

 

Does he have a paper trail of those directions from the company? That's his only lifeline. Recorded calls, messages on the tablet or Qualcomm, text messages, something.....did the company actually tell him to do that? If they didn't, then its their word against his, and the company will win that battle every time.

 

Get records, contact the old company to fix the “abandoned truck” tag, use FMCSA if needed.

 

That was because, did you quit without notice and just left it there for the company to recover? If so, you did abandon it.