Are trucking companies allowed to give personal info about an ex employee to potential employers that may prevent that employee from obtaining employment or in my case be terminated from employment with current employer?
Defamation of Character
Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by gogo1986, Sep 3, 2017.
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BUMBACLADWAR Thanks this.
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Ya all your potential employers need to know about your driving. So it's fine they did that.
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Oh.....well I have all that info... Names, titles, and dates. They told the current that I caused extensive damage to their equipment. I jacked knife. I was sited for failure to control and when I went to court it was dismissed. This is not even on my psp nor my dac?
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Thrown out in court is irrelevant. The carrier has the right to make whatever determination they want about an incident. Sounds like the incident in question may have been the cause for your departure from the prior employer?
It makes no sense for a carrier to "make stuff up" or exaggerate facts but I suppose it can happen. But carriers sharing information to other carriers regarding the work history of a prior employee is nothing new.
How do you propose to substantiate the notion "your character was defamed"? Do you have a copy of the response letter (employment verification) or a recording of the phone conversation? Or are you just basing this on the possibility they may have been more or less truthful with their response, and it caused you to lose your most recent job?
Carriers have LOTS of leeway to share and exchange information to other carriers in the name of safety and sensible hiring practices. And they still get burned all the time due to one party dropping the ball, and the problem reoccurs, to be discovered in a multiple fatality crash investigation, later.RedRover, BUMBACLADWAR and Lonesome Thank this. -
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Just because the citation resulting from the accident was thrown out doesn't mean your former employer can't still deem the accident preventable.
As for personal information being shared, if you are talking about company policy violations, drug and alcohol violations, attendance and other discipline issues that speak to your abilities to sagely drive and/or your mental health then yes, your former employer can, and has an obligation to, disclose those to any future prospective employer(s). The character background investigation the is mandated by the FMCSA regulations exceeds a typical pre-employment background check in other industries, and is permitted by law to do so.Pumpkin Oval Head, Dave_in_AZ, STexan and 1 other person Thank this. -
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