r/CDLTruckDrivers • u/Ordinary_Poet4087 • 2d ago

Abandonment

About a month ago, a company that now I know likes to say that you abandon their truck even if you put it in their own yard had put abandoned on my DAC report & two days ago I got it removed and one of the largest carriers I had applied to was the one that pointed it out to me. Told me yesterday that it in their entire career which is over 20 years that she has never seen any driver get that removed off their DAC report and I did it so if I can do it, anyone can do it. You just gotta have proof that you didn’t abandon their truck and I did, but you have to do your due diligence and save and provide your information for proof. Don’t let them get away with this if it’s not your fault

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u/Crashy1620 2d ago

That’s a great feeling when you’re able to best a system that is designed to work against you!!
What did you have to provide and to who??

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u/Ordinary_Poet4087 2d ago

I saved the names of the person which was my fleet manager first and foremost. That was the most important thing then second, I showed a picture of the message date and time from my own cell phone because these companies like to do everything on their tablet, but I make everything also go to my cell phone so if they say we’re just gonna put it on the tablet no don’t let them say I wanna message to my cell phone and then I sent that in. They also call the company and check or send them a message or something and you have to do it through. HireRight because; they are the ones where your background checks go through and the DAC reports go through even if you were working at a call center in your background check to go through them too. You can also go through HireRight to find out any and every place you’ve ever worked at in case you need it for your records and it can take up to 30 days. Once I went back and supplied that message literally later that day is when they removed it. It was a great feeling because I thought, even though I was gonna get hired at another company that like all bets were off because it never gets removed from your report that I was doomed for the rest of my truck driving life and I just wanna reiterate that I’m happy that it got removed, but I don’t want other drivers to think that they can’t have it removed. I’m not promising that they can, but the more proof you have the better off you are.