Companies that check you out before orientation

I was told Maverick was one of the few companies to do a full background check before extending an invitation to orientation

 

I don't see a conspiracy angle at all in this issue. "Screwing up" a trucker does them no good at all if they paid for transportation and hotel to bring you to orientation. Bringing in recruits that are ultimately not qualified will cost them money. IMHO most of the recruits that were disqualified in my orientation that weren't issues with positive drug tests were problems with drivers not having all their documentation. Make sure you arrive to orientation with all required documentation and don't hide anything from your recruiter. If you have any potential issues that you think might disqualify you then it is your responsibility to make sure your recruiter is aware.

Those that were disqualified in orientation paid their own transportation to get home. It was mind boggling to see so many recruits show up and fail the drug test or not have all their documentation ready to go. Expensive lesson and a waste of time for those recruits.

 

I agree with what everyone has written above, Though once again this seems to be "Trucking Company" thing --in the real world everything possible would be checked before arriving to your place of employment --even a drug test.
Of course the OP wants to know of companies that check thoroughly first before hiring, and i cant help him with that -good luck.

 

I got a fine that an employer said that he would pay. Well, he didnt and my license wound up getting suspended. I list it on job apps and it has never bothered me either. From what I've seen when I worked for Swift, out of 50 something people that showed up for orientation, most were sent home because when it came time to take the road test, they couldnt shift the gears.

 

Millis is the same, you get invited to orientation your hired as long as you pass your drug test

 

It is not just in the Trucking Industry that this happens... years ago I got into sales.. selling insurance.. the company flew recruits to orientation and training.. we were put up in a nice hotel for the month we were in orientation and training.. Just like in Trucking the first day was all the paperwork, same with the second.. then on to the training.. which was long and boring.. 9 hours of class and hours of homework for the evening.. and as we wre all going through it.. thy would come gt someone and they would be sent home for something that did not pass or clear in their background... and in about a month thy got a bill for the plane tickets, hotel and the portion of the class they completed.. if they did not pay it.. it was turned over to a collection agency...

The point is.. whatever company you go with is going to assign you a truck and trust you to transport customers product.. of course they are going to check you out... just be upfront and honest and you have nothing to worry about.. try to hide, cover up or be misleading on somthing it will evntually be discovered and you will get the boot...

The crazy thing is, some people get sent home for somethning that they tried to hide, and if they had been upfront it would not have been an issue... but, their hiding it made it a bigger issue...

 

Background things are usually taken care of before you get to orientation... as long as they are aware of any situation you might have in your past. The thing I see that has people go home besides what's been mentioned are medical disqualifications. Sometimes its connected with a lack of documentation on rehab from previous injuries, but more often it also can be for prescriptions that make the doctors nervous about putting you in a seat. That can mean go home, spend 30 days off of the med, and with your doctor's approval of all of this going back to orientation. If it's not something that you didn't disclose, Prime will pay for the transportation, and they don't "bill" you for that.

OTOH, if you show at orientation and fail the drug test or they catch you hiding something in your background, you'd better have a way home because they aren't paying for it.

 

Did you have a CDL when you had a suspension? If not, you don't need to say anything. If you did have a CDL then you need to tell them now. They will find out, you should save yourself the time and expense of going to orientation only to be told you have no job.