SS Card?

I might be too late with this but:

My recruiter already verified my work history

They normally don't check your work history until you arrive. They look at your application to make sure that what you've told them qualifies you to work there. But normally they don't do the hardcore background checks until you arrive. You must be able to verify what you've been doing the past three years. I believe names and numbers of former employers will suffice as long as they can get in touch with these people. But they're not going to take your word for anything. There has to be some sort of verification from an outside source like a phone conversation, tax documents, and sometimes other sources like notarized confirmation letters if you happened to work off the books.

So make sure everything in the past three years can be verified by some sort of outside source.

Luckily my bus will be taking me through my home town where I keep all of the inportant documents in life so i'll call ahead and have them meet me at the bus station with them. Im really glad yall told me this because nobody mentioned a thing about it to me!

Unfortunately it is not uncommon for people to show up to company-sponsored programs and wind up right back on the bus home in a day or two for something that could have easily been avoided if the company had communicated their requirements properly. So have them bring you anything you can think of that might be important for personal identification and employment verification. Better to have more than you need with you than to be sent back home.

We have a ton of information on items to bring. Check out this list for ideas. Not all are these are requirements. Some are just recommended:

Items To Bring To CDL School, Training, and OTR

So I got a little worried and called my recruiter this morning and suprisingly enough I was able to get ahold of him. He assured me that nothing is stopping me from coming out and that the only thing they have not verified is my most recent employer and the community college I attended a few years back. I can supply pay stubs for the most recent employer and he said not to worry about the college because my work history over laps with it. So that puts me at ease some but I will call ahead to home and try to get all of the documents that I can! I really appreciate all of your responses, had I not come here, its possible that I would have arrived without the right documents.

The BIGGEST thing I see people get sent home over is if they have a CPAP machine you have to have the past 30 days of records & have to be using it at least 70%. The recruiters didn't tell them this, they were under the impression that as long as they had the machine & use it then they would be fine. I've seen numerous people get sent home for this very reason.

If you got direct deposit you can send a screen shot of the deposits going in. Honestly. It seemed each recruiter asked for different things. Mine was all verified when I got there and AFTER I padded everything and was about to get on trainers truck the recruiter called asking for more

Maybe he was an idiot. . Idk

FYI - under federal law, an employer is required to verify eligibility to work, via a social security card. An employer can't legally hire you - without proof you are eligible to work.

IRS FAQ Foe Employers

Has to be an ORIGINAL federally issued one, NOT LAMINATED (which technically voids the card).

So yes, you should bring the card to orientation (you are actually required to - whether they tell you or not).

Rick

I would take the birth certificate, passport, and the social security card just to be safe. Since we're on the topic of birth certificates, as long as it has the raised seal, is there a limit to how old it can be? For example, what if one has their birth certificate with the raised seal but it is five years old? Would one need to get a new one?

I would take the birth certificate, passport, and the social security card just to be safe. Since we're on the topic of birth certificates, as long as it has the raised seal, is there a limit to how old it can be? For example, what if one has their birth certificate with the raised seal but it is five years old? Would one need to get a new one?

Any legitimate raised seal BC is fine. Date of issue doesn't matter.

A valid passport is fine, and you really don't need a birth certificate if you bring a passport.

Rick

It doesn't matter how old your birth certificate is. Mine was issued when I was 4 years old and I've never had a problem. It has the raised seal so it's good. It's falling apart but then it's 24 years old soooo....