How do I move past a dirty DAC report?

Chinatown · Jan 14, 2020

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RickS331 · Jan 14, 2020

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When I make such a reply I almost always get hammered on Facebook about it. I also want you to understand I am not taking sides. The first point we are only hearing one side of this story. From what I am seeing you are a less than 6 months experience driver with a terminated rehire with review on their record.

This leads me to my primary point. If there is any ( and I mean any) truth to those none (recordable) accidents (there is no such thing as a DOT reportable) you are screwed. DAC is not your primary problem. The FMCSA mandates an investigation into your employment background in regulated carriers.

Here is what I recommend you do. Follow @Chinatown with some job leads. BE 100% honest with any new prospective carrier. You will be surprised at how some of these carriers have bad reputations. Just lay your side of the story out. The next point is MAJOR! From that day on make dang sure the primary problem was that carrier. If you lose another job because of this, you will find yourself OUT! I am saying this because I don't make judgments based only on one side!
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I will lay it out like this, The DAC Report by Driver IQ says "backing up, struck another vehicle" this plain and simply did not happen. What actually happened was an emergency air line got pinched by the quarter fender and the trailer. I called in for a field repair, the TA field repair technician replaced the lines, then added an additional tethering spring. The technician then placed all three tethering springs onto a single bracket of the ferring of my 2019 International LT. When backing at a later delivery location, (it was a little tight) the added tension ripped the ferring off and inward, as is evidenced by the pattern of breakage.

I dunno about you, but that's doesn't sound like "backing up, struck another vehicle" it sounds like a bad repair job that caused more problems than it solved.

The second issue was a low hanging cable line, that I could not see. It was under 13'6" otherwise I wouldn't have been able to touch it, but that said, it was after 7pm in November, dark, with little to no lighting, no signage indicating a hazard and nothing on my paperwork indicating a potential hazard. I pulled into my location and the next thing I know a guy from the business next door came out claiming I knocked out his cable. The damage couldnt' have been too severe as it was up the very next morning.

That said law stipulates that all cables in a commercially active parking lot requires those cables to be tethered 14 feet high! Let alone how do you avoid hitting something that you can't see for the horizon line in pitch black rural town?

Edit: The third I don't intend to contest, I made a poor judgement call plain and simple and don't feel a need to detail it. Though I will say it's not a DOT offense.

Chinatown · Jan 14, 2020

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lovesthedrive · Jan 14, 2020

Yeah, you might be able to argue the repair. Yet the cable will still be yours with out discussion. It isnt like another truck passed you and tore out the cable. It doesnt matter how low it was to the ground. It still was you behind the wheel. It is just one of those bad deals we have to mark up to "Oh well".

Eddiec · Jan 14, 2020

The DAC issues come down to one question....Did you do it?
If not - pay a lawyer to do your fighting for you.

A couple hundred dollars vs. losing a $1,000.00 dollars a week for every week you're not working

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RickS331 · Jan 14, 2020

Chinatown said: ↑

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I tried USA Truck, they turned me away.

Chinatown · Jan 14, 2020

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rachi · Jan 14, 2020

RickS331 said: ↑

I'm a relatively new driver, got my license in August, ran with Werner from then to a week before Xmas.

They were content to run me into high risk areas until I requested to be moved into a different and less risky account, then they terminated me due to "unacceptable safety record".

Werner has since drafted up a dirty DAC with three non-DOT reportable "preventables" two of which I am currently attempting to dispute. One "incident" is very clearly fraudulent and the other is misrepresented and would take a long list of mental gymnastics to rationalize as being my fault.

I am not one of those drivers who will always make excuses, I own a mistake when I make it. That said, how do I move past this DAC, where can I find work? I'm already feeling the struggle now and it's been a few weeks since I last drove.

I really need to pull a win out of this.
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You will need to go with one of the craigs list companies. This is what I did and found me a nice little 12 truck outfit. That neg info will be on your dac for 7 years.

Chinatown · Jan 14, 2020

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