1. At Hurricane we must have a signed application with 10 years’ work history. So as a driver it is important to take your time and figure out your past 10 years. Don’t leave work out, just because you had a bad experience at a driving job and you want to forget about it doesn’t mean it didn’t happen. Do not fudge on your time at places, companies verify work history or report to DAC. If a company wants 3 years OTR experience, we can verify it. If you lie about it, that might take you out of the running for a position. So try to get your dates pretty close, most companies understand when you are off by a month or 2.
2. Once we get your application at Hurricane, we start to process that application by first checking your OTR experience and adding up your experience. We are looking for 36 months of OTR experience. We check to make sure companies have DOT #’s and have more than 10 trucks in their fleet.
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3. Next at Hurricane we run your PSP. The Pre-Employment Screening Program (PSP) allows motor carriers to obtain five years of crash data and three years of roadside inspection data on prospective drivers. PSP records may not be used for current employees; they are to be used exclusively for pre-employment screening purposes. This allows us to see if you have any DOT reportable accidents and how you did on inspections. If you have had an accident, we need an accident report. (Note: If you ever have an accident that law enforcement is involved get a copy of the accident report and keep for 5 years.) We also look to see if you have any violations, where they because of the equipment or driver. We are mainly looking at driver violations. This means you need to stay on top of what happens with your DOT inspections. If you have to many driver violations or an at fault accident, we will pass you by.
4. After the PSP is cleared by Safety we run your DAC. The DAC employment report is a detailed summary of a trucker’s work history in the trucking industry. Most trucking companies today participate in sharing this information about truckers. The DAC employment report contains items such as length of employment, number of accidents, reasons for quitting or why they were fired, if they are eligible for re-hire, type of driving, commodities hauled and types of trailers pulled. This tells us a lot about a driver. We are looking for length of work history, accidents and reason for leaving. DAC can be great for drivers if they have handled leaving jobs in the proper way. At Hurricane we use the DAC as verifiable time.
5. Once we have the DAC if we still do not have 36 months verified we will start sending out verifications to your past employers in the past 3 years that where not listed on DAC. Here is where the waiting game starts. All companies have 30 days to answer employment verifications. Most are nice and complete within 3-5 days, but some can drag it out if they want too. When this happens there is nothing we can do until they have reached their 30 days. At Hurricane we can use your Federal Tax records to verify your past employment at a job for hiring purposes if needed. This is a good reason to keep these records for 10 years. Scan and email them to yourself so you have these records saved and at easy access.
6. Once we have 36 months verified, we send your file to the VP of Operations for final review. He is going to look at your application, PSP, DAC and verifications. Do you have good employment history length at positions? Why did you leave? Job jumping? Your personal reasons for leaving? Violations? He takes all this into account and makes the final decision on your approval for our program.
7. Approval or Denial- This can come 1 day to 20 days depending on verifications. If a driver is approved our next step is to contact the driver and let them know they have been pre-approved pending on their MVR results.
8. CDLIS and MVR- Your CDLIS tells us all your past state CDL numbers, so make sure you have put all your past CDL numbers on your application if you had the license in the past 3 years. Once we have those will run MVR on any license numbers you have had in the past 3 years. A MVR is going to tell us about any suspensions or tickets that are on your record usually in the past 3 years. Some states do go back 5 years. All MVR are cleared by safety.
9. It’s time for orientation! Once we have completed everything it’s time to attend orientation! So get your stuff packed and don’t forget your CDL, SSI and Birth Certificate.
So this gives you an idea of what it is like to be hired by Hurricane Express.
