I think the DAC is the most inaccurate and corrupt of the 3 types. Its a way for a company to punish you and get revenge in an attempt to prevent anyone else from hiring you. Sure, they'll put "non chargeable" on your DAC each time you hit a deer, but no description, and then you have to explain to future employer what that non-chargeable was about. Sure that is valid, but it actually gets worse. Many of the big companies will put nothing onto your DAC until your no longer employed, then put a huge laundry list of stuff onto your DAC report. Some of it may be flat out lies too, that you'll have to contest, esp if some of it is bad enough to prevent you from getting hired. If you have a company trying to encourage you to run a double log book (800 mile load due in 20 hours, hello 10 hour break?), and each time you tell them you only run legally (and safely), they'll eventually fire you and say they have other drivers "willing to do what it takes" to get the load delivered. Now when you apply at another company that looks at the DAC report, they find out that the company that fired you put on "Performance and Communication Failure" with no further explanation, which is an obvious lie since you communicated very clearly each time you didn't have the hours to run a load, and that you weren't going to run double log books. At least the MVR and CSA has documentation of what happened, so its a bit more honest or accurate in my opinion, and has records to backup the report.
OK after further investigation into the 3 different services that companies use I found out the following... 1. MVR Records last for 5 years in most states for CDL holders 2. PSP Records last for 7 years & are then deleted. 3. DAC Records Last Forever (conditionally) Work records are forever, the date you were hired till the day you left (includes the contact info of every CDL job you have held) BUT.... The Reason for leaving be it Termination / Quit / Disabled Etc. are against Federal Law to share with anyone! All they can give are employment dates & whether you are eligible to be Re-Hired..
Not true Rico1960,,,unless something has recently changed. 1. MVR may be right, 5 years or 7 2. PSP Records 5 years for Accidents and 3 years for road side inspections/citations 3. DAC whatever is on there will be gone after 7 years The PSP has to have a drivers permission to be accessed by anyone except DOT The DAC is looked at by most companies, as well as the MVR. ALL Drivers should get a copy of all 3 and keep an up to date copy on hand. BTW. are correct about what the company is allowed by law to tell a prospective company, regarding a former employee but, tell me how they can track what is actually said?
I went through a lot of legal stuff (training) about hiring and the laws that 'regulate' hiring people. I do not recall a federal law that prohibits sharing of information beyond employment dates. See it is not about federal law, as I recall, it is about liabilities caused by any discrimination through the sharing of information which matters. Courts have shaped company policies to limit their liabilities by mitigating any chance of a lawsuit.
To be honest, I have NEVER read an actual law, federal or otherwise that states what a company is allowed to share with another company, regarding the employment period in which employee was employed. I have just always heard it, since the 90's I would assume, everyone has heard it by now..
