Beth
Newark,#2UPDATE Employee ..inside information
Mon, July 14, 2014
Thank you for your statements on this public media instead of contacting the company directly to resolve your issues. I will attempt to resolve your allegations in a mature manner.
Yes, we do require our local drivers to maintain a Driver’s Daily Log along with punching a time clock. Why? There is a simple answer – because we can.
You also state that you gave 2 weeks’ notice. Yes, you did and that was very respectable. Then you go on to state that you notified us via telephone regarding some “major surgery” on your girlfriends leg. That is where things become incorrect. The facts are – on 9/10/09 – you waited until after office staff had left for the day, then left a note in the shop for the staff. An interesting note I must state but none the less – a note that became part of your permanent record. You were given a trip envelope on 9/10/09 for your 9/11/09 work in which you removed your paycheck from and then did not do the 9/11/09 work. You did NOT call anyone on the afterhour’s list to notify them of your intentions to quit on 9/10/09. You let the company and our customer down. Not the work ethic that you portray of yourself in your statement on this public media. We have drivers that have unexpected family emergency that we accommodate – all they have to do is call us (during or after normal office hours)! By the way – this is where the “quit under dispatch” comes in – work ethics dictate that had you called us on 9/10/09 and notified us of your intentions – that label would have been avoided.
Let’s move onto your next major allegation – your DAC report. Which by the way, doesn’t exist from Superior Truck Lines, Inc. You are confusing a DAC report with previous employment verification. This is a common rookie mistake. A DAC report is a database that many companies use. We don’t supply information regarding an employee to the DAC system until the END of a driver’s employment. More often than not, we supply previous employment verifications when requested by prospective employers. The prospective company in this scenario is JB Hunt – in which they sent over previous employment verification. Per Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration regulations, we have 30 days from the date the employment verification is sent to us to respond back to the requesting employer. We, as a motor carrier are regulated on the information that we MUST provide to the requesting employer. Your “key point” is laughable – show me the DAC report that we allegedly submitted against you.
Now to answer your questions:
A DAC database is basically a way for employers to check the safety of CDL drivers to continue to protect the motoring public. It list factual information as it is regulated as well.
Entries have to hold legal merit. There are categories that separate DOT reportable from non-(DOT)reportable categories.
You would need to contact DAC for this information. I am sure they have a whole department that takes care of this directly.
The CDL driver is also allowed to make rebuttal statements on their DAC report to explain information provided by their employer on their DAC. Keep in mind – employers are careful to only provided DOCUMENTED, factual information and can rebut your statement with completed and submitted driver statements.
Please see the DAC site. They provide a wealth of information there.
Please see the DAC site. I am not sure on what other companies do – I can only tell you they we do not respond to any question that gives opinions on any driver. We stick to FACTUAL INFORMATION ONLY.
Accidents can be DOT reportable or non-reportable. There are specific criteria to make an accident DOT reportable. You should familiarize yourself with that before making such statement. You should also be aware that any damage that you create with company equipment that is under your control, regardless of the severity, is still an accident. Even if it does NOT meet the DOT Reportable criteria, it is still an accident you created. Why should the company withhold that information? If you were hiring a driver, wouldn’t you want to know what their safety record is before putting them behind the wheel?
Drug tests are also federally regulated. Not all accidents incurred require the driver to be drug tested nor do all accidents require police investigation. Please familiarize yourself with the DOT regulation on post accident drug testing.
The recourse a driver has is to contact the company directly and/or submit a rebuttal.
I realize that the statement you made on this public media was a while ago and I sincerely hope that you have gained the experience needed to better understand the decisions you made. You made our company out to be the “bad guy” when we simply stated the facts regarding your safety/work history.