disqualified from attending a trucking school...

900,000-tons-of-steel said:

Few things here:

1). If you ordered a copy of your DAC, one must not have been created at the time, so there was not one to send you (they get PAID to create, update, and provide perspective employers with a background check of perspective employees...they are not going to supply one to you for free if one does not yet exist).

2). Not ALL trucking companies use DAC/USIS/HireRight to do background checks...if HireRight is not used, you can't expect them to send you a copy just because you signed an application.

3). If out of those 100 companies you applied to, even just ONE of them uses HireRight...a copy should have been sent to you. It is the law; you have the lawful right to know who is looking into your background information...and if you never received a copy with ALL the companies who looked at you listed on page one, they have broken the law.

And to the original poster...if this accident shows up on your MVR, the other party must have called the cops. This is done because most insurance companies (regardless of fault), want a report filed and an investigation of some sort---so they can haggle with each other. If you are found to be at fault...it WILL show up on your MVR.
So a report was filed, and a complaint was filed on you for being "at fault".
Go to your DMV and get a copy of your MVR---in Iowa it costs $5.25

 

something is missing in this scenario?????????????????

 

That's the thing with forums, people will use them for their own purposes. Regardless of what you're looking for people will use a thread to speak their mind, you don't need to respond to every reply. Some people are going to call you out, especially if your post doesn't make much sense. Getting turned down by CRE, or any school for that matter, for one incident in 20 years of driving doesn't ring true to most people. You should probably learn from this, when you hook on with a company you can expect the same scrutiny from your safety department.

 

Honesty doesn't cut it. Your record/backround does. What good is having a CDL going to do if you can't use it?

 

1) You're dead wrong. They most certainly sent me one for free. Here's what is says under each column: "Requested, but HireRight does not have current information on you for this request." There are check marks under the "Employment History Information" and "Drug & Alcohol information." Page 2 talks about "USIS services is now HireRight Solutions." Page 3 is a computer-generated report called "Insight History Record" pertaining to the background criminal search. The following page is the drug and alcohol (also computer-generated) report and says, "No Drug Information is on file for (my name appears here)," and for the social security number, it is blanked out as "xxx-xx-xxxx." The next page says, "Transportation Employment History." "No employment information on file." The last page explains about the Fair Credit Reporting Act.

2) I was never under the impression ALL companies used it so not sure where your inference/assumption originated.

3) Not one copy was sent to me from any of the companies of which multiple, if not most, certainly use HireRight as I recall providing electronic signatures for the HireRight background check online for many of them. If there is no report that comes back because nothing is generated the company does NOT have to send anything to me if there is nothing to send (an empty report).

Check with ANY driver who received a DAC report (in the past two years) and ask if it isn't chronologically identical to what I've just explained to you, page for page.

 

First of all, settle down there spaz...ain't nobody arguing with you or trying to make you look stupid.

1). They sent you "something" because you followed the proper procedure, and by law & policy, they are to oblige you with one free copy per year.
But it was blank, not because you have no history and/or don't exist....it was blank because nobody has PAID them to do the research and create one.

2). If you did indeed apply to 100 companies, and atleast one of those 100 companies paid HireRight for a DAC report on you...you would have been sent a copy of what that one company saw (even if it was nothing) AND who saw it. IT IS THE LAW.
You said you never got one; so either you lied, or Swift & Prime didn't process a background check through them, or they broke the law by not sending you a copy letting you know Swift and Prime was looking at your information (whether there is anything or not).

3). See #2 above and add that HireRight is still obligated to let you know that you are being looked at, and by whom. It is to protect you against 'Identity Theft'.


Take it for what it's worth driver, I ain't trying to blow smoke up your ###.

 

I'm just being straight with you here. You know you have this problem, and you're coming here for us to try to tell you it's no big deal? Someones gonna tell you about that great paying company that doesn't care about accidents? I'm trying to save you 10K dollars here in all seriousness. I'm at a CDL school right now. They do pump out plenty of great drivers. But they are a business. I've got a couple of rejects in my class that would be lucky to make it on the road for 2 months if they even got hired on. CDL SCHOOLS DON'T GUARANTEE YOU A JOB. They are getting you a license and training. They'll take just about anyone that walks in the door. My school is pretty decent, but my "friend" went there a year or so ago, and he is literally the dumbest guy I know (no worries for the road guys, he washed out when he couldn't pass tests). Seriously, I'm just trying to warn you that you're pretty much trying to make a pretty big gamble for entry into a pretty mediocre field. If truck driving is something you really just gotta do, you'll have a better time waiting till that accident gets a lil more time behind it.

Regarding the nature of your accident... If you rear ended another vehicle, and you were at fault, that's following too closely. I don't see any other way to explain that. If that accident happened in a semi, it would have been a much bigger deal, and that's what employers see. Accidents that aren't a big deal in a car are a BIG deal in a truck, thats what you seem to not understand here. You're prolly pretty upset with what I told ya, but good luck to you anyway.

 

If your truly serious in having a career in truck driving I recommend investing time into reading up on bad companies to work for. A lot of complaints about CR England treating their drivers like scum on the earth.