Shaffer (Last Straw)

Yeah Yeah another "petition."

Just sue the crap out of them and make it HARDER for these companies to report and then make the reporting MORE ACCURATE!

That means fill out long sentences on what the driver did or did not do!

And make it worth while and make these sentences a minimum of 50 words so there is NO CONFUSION as to what the driver did!

BUT if a company has more than a certain amount of negative reports then DAC MUST have to go in and check that said company is not cutting and pasting complaints into the forms! That's way to easy!

Each firing is different and so should each filed complaint!

These sorry, no driving "safety" people need to actually work for that over abundant salary they make!

Quit this click on a FEW buttons and call it a freaking report!

There lies the problem! It's not accurate at all!

And stop PAYING companies to report!

I'm not totally against DAC, USIS, HireRight as they might save my wifes life, childrens or even mine from some moron who actually doesn't need to be behind the wheel but for Petes sake do an ACTUAL report!

 

You know if I write out a bunch of lies about or against someone, I'm liable under the law for it. There's a disclaimer about that on most of these boards. So I'm wondering what makes DAC and these trucking companies magically exempt from the law?

 

They pay for the right to post what they do. They are also supposed to report factual information. DAC or whatever they want to go by today, does not have the capacity to verify the information.

When the driver checks the file, they have the right to dispute it.

The comments that DAC makes are no different than the information that can be posted in your credit file. You have the right to correct that as well.

 

They are not, that is what the petition is for. To hold accountable, both the company and USIS/DAC under the laws already in place. How do you think people win lawsuits against credit reporting companies? By using the laws already in place pertaining to litigatable printed material, which is criminally placed willfully and knowingly, while attempting to use the loop hole of culpable deniability, to avoid prosecutable convictable court appearances.

 

When i applied for another job i found out that Conway Truckload sent in to DAC
that i had an incident.The incident was that i was hit by a deer while driving down
the interstate.When i called the Conway safety dept,and asked why they would put
something like that on my DAC i was told that any thing at all that causes monetary
damage will be put on your DAC.And this is the company that cares about its drivers.

 

DAC is a joke, if the company you are applying to holds what is on there against you, then they arent worth working for anyway, that is your indiciater. Stay out of the big outfits, they will only ruin your life.

 

I work for a good sized company with a small trucking division, 102 trucks. I'm in an even smaller division of that side, 2 trucks. They love it when I pull off something like that. The head of HR calls me every month to see how I'm doing. Dispatch is 4 people, I think, I usually only talk to two of them and all I have to say when I call is my name, they know who I am. I don't know if we even have a safety department, waste of money in my opinion. We don't wait on loads, we're not in the business of waiting on someone else to get around to letting us make money when they feel like it.

The big mega companies are so mismanaged that it's sad watching them. If you really want to keep driving, you do not have to keep working for people that don't value you. Get some experience and poke around until you find a smaller outfit. It's worth it even if it means taking a pay cut.

 

I drove for Shaffer for two months back in Dec 06 and Jan 07 and I Never turned down a load and Never got over 1800 miles and the last two weeks were 880 miles and 1100 miles.I finally told them I HAD to quit because-well does that really need an explanation.
Everyone I talked to says "Really, that's weird" or " I thought that company was at the top of the food chain for company drivers" or "You must have been doing something wrong". Well let me tell you, I do not post here much but I have been driving since 1996 and have racked up 700,000 accident free miles with very few times in my career being late.I know a driver can slip through the cracks.The bad thing is I have a one of the cleanest DAC reports in the industry, it prints out on ONE page, never been fired ect, can supposedly go back to work anywhere-I cant find a job now because I worked 6 jobs in the last three years.The companys that will not hire me now are WEL,Crete,Marten,National Carriers and I am going to have to drive now for the bottom of the barrell companies.My advice-DONT JOB HOP!