Walmart wants to send a safety background and employment verification letter????

yuup we all have. its part of the hiring process. took 3 months from app online to first day in class. best of luck to you

 

Not sure that part is true. Landstar tried several times to get SRT to respond when they were processing my application. Eventually, since SRT never responded, they just declared due diligence and moved on with the process.

 

SRT of Arkansas?

Some of our companies can be pretty clannish if you ask me. I know I will be burned at the stake here for being a #### yankee for saying this, but there are some companies here that are pretty... free with whatever they feel like doing today. If they feel like doing something in that office.

To be fair, there are some who are quite good, very professional and so on here in this State (Thank god...) but some are out of business now due to economics since roughly 2008.

 

Totally wrong. Trucking companies have to follow labor law in the jursisdiction that they re headquarted in, or have terminals. Actually, everybody has to follow the law, including them. But it is still up to the individual driver/employee (and or their attorney) to know their rights and hold their employers' feet to the fire when they break laws and regulations..

 

I am pretty sure when you get hired on, they will make you sign a document that states you are an at will employee.

 

Sorry.

Trucking is indeed At Will on both your part and employers part.

Every trucking job I have ever signed had a form signature acknowledging that it is At will specifically.

Now.. with that said. There are times Maryland has taken my case when I quit for cause or complaint against a trucking company trying to hurt me and my income etc, and won at a much higher level against three trucking companies in my life. One in particular was very successful.

Even if you win you still lose, and badly. Particularly when the one trucking company in Rockport Indiana proceeds to lawfully (Within their specific state's laws related to that) blacklist me for about 15 years. After a long enough time they simply cease to matter. If I wanted to get back into flatbedding for steel etc I can do it.

 

49 CFR 391.23 (g) requires previous employers to respond to background investigation inquiries, including drug and alcohol testing requirements. Now, if after three good faith attempts the previous employer fails to respond the employing motor carrier simply notes this in the DQ file and moves on. They are encouraged by 391.23(3) to report the failure to the FMCSA. See below for the regulations.
391.23 (g) reads;
After October 29, 2004, previous employers must:
(1) Respond to each request for the DOT defined information in paragraphs (d) and (e) of this section within 30 days after the request is received. If there is no safety performance history information to report for that driver, previous motor carrier employers are nonetheless required to send a response confirming the non-existence of any such data, including the driver identification information and dates of employment.

and, 391.23 (3) suggests that the prospective employer report any failures to respond by previous employers to the FMCSA.
391.23 (3) reads;
Prospective employers should report failures of previous employers to respond to an investigation to the FMCSA and use the complaint procedures specified at §386.12 of this subchapter. Keep a copy of the reports in the driver investigation history file as part of documenting a good faith effort to obtain the required information.

 

Yes.

 

"At will" is a formal legal description for an employment agreement with no contractual conditions for termination. He didn't mean they don't have to follow the law.

 

Sorry, sir you are wrong, wrong, wrong. What do you think labor laws and standards were created for? To fill offices, employ people who do nothing? If you sign an "at will" release, as you call it, aside from the fact nobody in their right mind would sign such a thing, that doesn't make it legal. It isn't wprth the price of the paper it's printed on, on the hands of a good lawyer. Signing an illegal contract doesn't make it legal because you signed it
If you won 3 cases against shady, crooked employers, good for you, I salute you for standing up for yourself, please encourage others to do the same.