Question about accidents

so where are these accidents listed? how would they find out about them?

 

How long ago did these things happen? Have you pulled up your DAC since your company let you go? Your things sound like what happened to me, I pulled my DAC and they put on my DAC they let me go for Safety Reasons...now I am having a hard time trying to get any type of driving job or unemployment (CA). Make sure and get in contact with USIS (DAC) and ask them for the form (you can download both forms-request and rebuttal) from their web site. They also have the contact numbers you need. Good Luck

 

If they are not on your driving record and don't show up as points on your license, don't mention them. Every company loves volunteer information from you that isn't affected by the lawful restraints of what previous employers can say.

 

Well, I went and looked at 391.23. It's pretty clear there what they can ask about via 391.23. Safety issues. Period. There may be other chapters that allow other questions, but I kinda doubt it.

Safety issues includes Accidents - whether DOT reportable or not. It includes any other safety issue as well - including verified positive drug hits and BAC results of .04 or greater, violated the drug/alcohol regulations (as expressed in the FMCSR), drug/alcohol test refusals, and completion (or non-completion) of drug/alcohol rehab programs.

I may have left some out... was a quick scan.

They are *required* to ask for this information.
They are *required* to ask it of any DOT regulated employer you worked for in the past three years. So, if you worked for Mom's Trucking for 18 years, then for Bob's Hauling for 2, the new company would get that information from Bob, and all 18 years worth of info from Mom.

That's employer to employer investigation.

The DAC, however, is something different. There's nothing about it in the FMCSR at all. It's a third party database, and as far as I can tell, there are zero objective rules for data entry. If Mom's Trucking wants to put "Devnull is a blue banana and votes for lame presidential candidates", it appears they can do that. (I'm not a subscriber, so I don't have access - I'm basing this on guesswork). Of course, you can rebut anything in the DAC, and there are rules for corrections as well.

The real point of complaint about the DAC is that it is not objective There is no requirement for evidence at all. It's simply "This is here because I say it happened". It depends on the strict honesty of the reporting party. For that reason alone, the system is inherently lawed and worthless.

Fortunately, more and more companies are realizing that, and are either ignoring DAC altogether, or at least assigning it much lower precedence in their hiring criteria