DAC report

No big deal.
I was looking at an ad today; "no more than 3 preventables in 3 years."

• DWI Convictions: Must be 5 years ago
• Moving Violations: Only 3 last 3 years
• Preventable Accidents: Only 3 last 3 years

So, you see, you're in great shape. Dozens of companies will hire you.

 

No, it will haunt all thine days.

The Law provides that the worst of any reports on DAC die after 10 years.

Ive smashed doors off in my time, spare bolts easy fix or company sent bolts and he fix. No DACs anywhere.

This is a different time. A turning.

Damning reports condemn other wise adequate drivers to less than ideal industry conditions. Or eliminates them entirely today.

I wrote my post in half sarcasm. You will break stuff now and then, doors aint half of it. Easy off easy on.

 

Unless you drive for jb hunt.

 

Somebody should take this Dac dude out behind the shed and teach him some manners. lol

 

Hireright/DAC is ONLY an information aggregator. They are in business to help carrier HR departments satisfy part 391.23. There should not be information in DAC that is different than what information is being kept by the carrier a driver worked for. It does not matter if a carrier uses Hirerights services or not, they are still responsible to comply with 391.23. This does not mean someone should go roll over and play dead if these records are inaccurate. However, it does mean if you have this history put your big guy pants on and own it! Once more I will say it, DAC is not your problem. Stop fearing DAC. DAC is only reporting the information reported to it by the carriers that also have this same information.

More and more carriers are only looking at the summary anyway. They will drug test you as part of the hiring process and will ignore the testing history that is part of DAC. They most times will also pull the DMV as a part of the process. If however, you were terminated any new carrier is going to want to know why. This is what trips up people.

 

I drive a yard truck. See guys rip doors off all the time. The best and easiest way to combat this is get a srt of rubber bungee cords and hook it to a cross member, wrap it around the bottom part that latches when you close it then pull tight and latch it to another cross member.

 

Let me guess it was Werner or Knight ??? EVERYTHING is your fault at those 2 companies .... My friend in saftey at Marten says Marten is also like that.

 

back in my door swinging days (before i got jobs with roll up doors) many times the tiny hooks that secure the door chain were bent, just enough, to allow the chain to pop off at the slightest bump, or tapping of the brakes, so yeah, out came the bungee cords..BEFORE i'd even start backing up. sometimes, i was sucessful enough to rebend those hooks and not have any problems.

sometimes, there are no chains, but that long metal "holder" that goes into a slot on the trailer side.

again, sometimes those would be badly bent, or even missing.

this entry on your DAC will be there for 7 years, after that it falls off.

it falls off IF the company you worked for, goes out of business......i know, i get my DAC yearly.

not really a big deal, whether it be an accident or incident is per each company's dollar amount on repairs.

had you just broken a hinge, that would be an incident, but the door falling off.....is more costly.

i'd NOT sweat this too much, anytine you go for a job, just admit you did wrong, and LEARNED from it, and it has NEVER HAPPENED SINCE.....

christ, you'd think that ran ran into the rear end of many cars in a traffic jam, the way they wanna make this out to be....

 

I work for a small local carrier. Out insurance broker runs our MVR's and we don't spend the bucks on HireRight or whatever they are calling themselves these days.

We did sign up for the Pre-Employment Screening Program which is really 'Hit' or 'Miss', depending on each driver's roadside experience. Guys with little experience might not have much history. The accidents that show are those that actually get reported to the DOT, usually less than 50% from my experience.

Since a majority of my port drivers share ethnic origins; I see a lot of friends and relatives showing up after obtaining the needed 2 years experience wanting to work local. Many of then do have an inspection history which helps prove their experience.