Background Check From Previous Truck Companies

So my question is this. Is it a wise decision to call and ask a company to change an event that they are calling an incident when there was no damages involved to other trucking company inquiries? After driving for about 10 months with one company and 76,000 miles, I decided it was time for me to leave a company that I originally started with. I already had my CDL when I started with them but I didn't really have any experience. I left on what I deem as good terms. Have them more than 2 weeks advance notice. Did not ever cuss anyone out. Only bad thing I did was I had one non injury accident back in January where I damaged the side market and skirt of the trailer, minor damage. The light was still fully operational. And caused damage to 2 yellow poles on a city property. Nothing major. Coupe of hundred dollars worth total maybe. I also called the local Sheriffs department to report myself and I only bring that up to state I'm not one who hides from my faults. Since that one I had what this company referred to an another incident' which really was a mistake on my part and could have caused damage but no damages were done and no injuries. I drove the front of the tractor onto a another company' S property in an attempt to backin to a very tight dock. There was some grass in the area but it was mostly dirt and gavel. The owner himself actually stated that all the grass had actually been destroyed by drivers of another company that deliverd to that shipper regularly. So the company I first drove for has reported it 2 serious incidents within a 12 month period and any and all inquiries that come in to them, they do not hesitate to say that I've had 2 serious incidents already. Nothing is on my DAC report and my driving record is clean. Not even the accident in January is on record anywhere. One employer who I spoke to suggested that maybe I could call this company and ask them since I no longer drive for them, if they could stop reporting it as an incident as it sounds much worst that what really happened. Can this even be considered as a good idea to call them and ask that or would I just be opening the door for more trouble? Thanks guys.

I don't see how it could hurt anything to ask but I doubt they're going to change anything.

I also don't understand how driving onto someone's grass got recorded as an incident. Someone had to have called your company and reported damages or something.

From now on when you apply somewhere you're probably just going to have to let them know that your last company is going to report two incidents that there are no record of and explain what happened. I'm not sure what else you can really do.

Legally, your former company is not allowed to give details of your employment. Whencalled for a reference, companies are only allowed to give hire date, release date and whether or not you are eligible for rehire.

I know that in the real world, they give details, but in the legal world, what they are doing is against the law.

I know that in the real world, they give details, but in the legal world, what they are doing is against the law.

Which is why to this day I've always been puzzled about the very existence of the DAC report. Doesn't it seem like a blatant circumventing of the law? What am I missing?

I'm with you on the fact that driving on the grass is seen as an incident and even more so since there was no damage. Basically when I called my FM about a week later his almost exact words were, the safety manager upon seeing the grass in the photos automatically wrote it up as an safety incident. I'm not in any way trying to excuse myself or my mistakes but because they are categorizing it as 2 incidents, it has caused some doors to close for me unfortunately.

I don't see how it could hurt anything to ask but I doubt they're going to change anything.

I also don't understand how driving onto someone's grass got recorded as an incident. Someone had to have called your company and reported damages or something.

From now on when you apply somewhere you're probably just going to have to let them know that your last company is going to report two incidents that there are no record of and explain what happened. I'm not sure what else you can really do.

I know that in the real world, they give details, but in the legal world, what they are doing is against the law.

Which is why to this day I've always been puzzled about the very existence of the DAC report. Doesn't it seem like a blatant circumventing of the law? What am I missing?

There really is no reason for it, other than they really don't want you to be able to move on without all of the hassle of explaining two very minor incidents that they decided to document as serious safety violations.

JJ