Do Not At Fault Accidents In Personal Vehicles Hinder Your Hiring Potential?

2 years ago I was rear-ended when making an unprotected left-hand turn in my pickup. Driver was cited for inattentive driving and I went away in an ambulance. I heard mixed answers on this issue, some people say that some companies will still hold it against you and not hire you based on it. I know it affected my insurance a bit. Doesn't make much sense to me if that is the case since there was literally nothing I could do.

Some forums say to not even report it when applying, and that if you are not ticketed, it doesn't show on MVR. Obviously, I am still going to report it, not worth risking that. No other accidents, tickets, or even warnings on my record. Just turned 25, this shouldn't hinder me too much right?

About to test to get my cdl again, excited and starting to look at companies. Feels awesome to learn on a 10 speed manual, I know most companies are automatics, but I like not having that restriction. It was actually really fun driving in a manual, except when we hit crawling traffic on the road. And it was annoying to have to shift in the middle of turning.

If you're 100% not at fault it will not affect your employment opportunities. You are right to report it because it's not just your MVR they look at. Most trucking companies will hire companies to THOROUGHLY go through your criminal, driving and accident history. One of the things they check are insurance databases. Even if no citations are issued and there is no record your MVR there will be a paper trail if anyone involved notified their insurance company. Willful omission of an important fact on your application(your accident) WILL have a negative affect on your prospects even if you were not at fault.

I don't want you to give up and quit before you get your CDL so I won't go into what's involved in Prime's background check.

If you're 100% not at fault it will not affect your employment opportunities. You are right to report it because it's not just your MVR they look at. Most trucking companies will hire companies to THOROUGHLY go through your criminal, driving and accident history. One of the things they check are insurance databases. Even if no citations are issued and there is no record your MVR there will be a paper trail if anyone involved notified their insurance company. Willful omission of an important fact on your application(your accident) WILL have a negative affect on your prospects even if you were not at fault.

I don't want you to give up and quit before you get your CDL so I won't go into what's involved in Prime's background check.

I worked for Prime before for a bit, they are who I originally got my CDL through. And yeah I know they have a pretty extensive pre-hire process. First job I ever worked for where they actually called previous employers from multiple years, and wouldn't hire me until they actually got ahold of previous employers. Even called the vape shop I worked at when I was 19 lol.

Shouldn't be too bad then, no criminal record at all, zero tickets or infractions. Accident was 100% not at fault, was stopped yielding to traffic for a left hand turn, signal was on. Car that was far behind me didn't slow at all and rammed into the back of me.

To add, make sure you answer what they're asking. Sometimes it'll specifically ask for "at fault accidents".

One thing to look out for is a company may request a copy of the accident report you were involved in, whether or not it was your fault. My current company needed a copy of an accident report from when I was driving for Prime. A car wrecked in front of me and I ran over the hood of the car (after it came apart from the vehicle and landed in the middle of the road) which got stuck beneath my truck.

The police wrote an acccident report and asked me to email a copy of my logs to them. I was able to contact Prime's safety department a year after the incident and they provided my with the incident report number for the Colorado state police. I requested a copy of the report from the state police which clearly stated it was a no fault incident. Barr-Nunn hired me once I Emailed the report to them. Hopefully you won't have to deal with all that, but you might.

I had someone run a red light and hit me in the passenger door when I was driving a cab. I had to provide the police report to West Side before they would hire me. Initially they had turned me down because of the accident, I told the recruiter again it wasn't my fault and then the police report got me cleared. I also had to send it to Old Dominion and they also hired me.

I rear ended someone in my car several years ago while I was still working for Swift. A car decided to dart across three lanes of traffic right in front of me from a dead stop and there was absolutely no way I could avoid hitting him. I wasn’t cited and the insurance company found the other party 100% at fault. I always disclose it on applications and I’ve never even been asked about it and it’s never posed a problem for me