Dac report

What is DAC ??

 

Dac is a older term drivers use. Later became usis now it is hireright. Google any of them and you will find them.

 

DAC = Drive A Check

 

http://www.hireright.com/Consumers-Applicants.aspx

 

I was not sure where to repost this so I'll start here.

Start by going to HireRight, they run the DAC service and I put the link below. It takes s about 10 days to get it via USPS and it will list everything on your DAC. When you receive your report it will come with instructions on how to dispute any information on your DAC. The carrier then has 30 days to respond to your dispute from the date your dispute is filed. NOTE: The day you mail your dispute is not the day it is filed. Typically it takes about 10 days after you mail your dispute before it is filed but you should wait about 2 weeks before you call their 800 number. If the carrier refuses to remove information on your DAC they then must provide documentation for example, if you rear ended someone on I-5 during rush hour (When is it not effing rush hour on I-5) then the carrier would have to provide a copy of the police report. HOWEVER , and this is a secret that big carriers keep and really don't want drivers to know. IF the carrier does not respond within 30 days of the dispute being filed the disputed in question is automatically removed from your DAC. Most carriers will not fight you on minor infraction because it has been proved that no serious harm has come to the carrier for minor infractions but, willful negative reports are direct attempts to impair your ability to work. Which opens a carrier up for a whole host of liability that bought and paid for lawyers have already figured out for them that it is not worth it to pursue such litigation, after all at the end of the day it's all about making money and personal grudges against drivers cost them money.
Try taking care of it yourself for free first. More often than not they will let it drop because carriers know that it can take months to remove something from your DAC and they know most drivers don't have the $2,000 or so for a refresher course. Just FYI a lot of carriers will want a driver that has been inactive for 30 days or more to attend a drivers refreshing course before they will hire them. It's all neat and tidy. A carrier can effectively ruin your career without the liability because if negative information is no longer on your DAC you are free to pursue other work and the carrier is off the hook.

S.T.E.


http://www.hireright.com/Trucking-Background-Checks.aspx?apsi=2

 

You are saying if you took five weeks off you could not drive without taking a refresher course? Please provide a reference for this.

 

Okay, I was told that the 30 day plus inactive driver had to have a refresher course and after searching through my FMCSR book and web site I finally called a Truck school and was informed that I misunderstood what was said. FMCSR does not require any driver that has been idle for 30 days or more to take a refresher course. (OOPS) But that a lot, not all but, a lot of carriers will want you to take a refresher course after a certain amount of time due to insurance obilagtions and that the idle time not driving before they want you to take a course varries from carrier to carrier.

Thanks for the heads up Rosha I'll make the correction on my posts

S.T.E.

 

That's what I thought you would find. This applies mostly to companies that hire less experienced drivers. I have seen companies that will make you redo your physical and take a new pre-employment drug screen if you have been gone over 30 days, but again that is strictly company policy and not law.

Just my opinion but I think insurance companies have too much ability to restrict what a company can do, where they can go, what they can haul, and who they can hire. You can be well within the law but not eligible for insurance at any kind of affordable rate as a small carrier.

 

AS soon as the 2010 kicks in DAC reports will become ineffective. Companies will have a lot more information with the 2010 regs than DAC has

 

Agreed, they will have the info from all inspections and DOT items. But they won't have the necessary verification of employement dates, drug and alcohol testing data, rehire eligibility, and minor accident info that DAC may provide along with any notes on why a driver left or was terminated. Some of those are required in the driver qualification file and are not related to the data analysis done in CSA2010.