“Are These Driver Agreement Policies Fair Or Even Legal?”

A big salute to my fellow TruckingTruth brothers and sisters. My name is Sam, and I’m from Southern California. I need a bit of advice about a Carrier’s Company Policies form that a recruiter uploaded on Driver Pulse for me to fill out. I start orientation on Wednesday, and to be honest, this is my first time in 15 years attending one.

My entire driving career has consisted of only two driving jobs. Hauling cattle feed locally for an owner-operator who handed me the keys to a 389 as soon as my drug test cleared and hauling produce to the East Coast for a midsized carrier out of Fontana, CA. Soon as my test results came back, owner handed me a GPS and said, “Put this GPS in the black Kenworth out back. Keys are in the ignition, and there’s a brand-new mattress in there for you. She’s all yours.”

Given the way I’ve been hired in the past, it’s probably fair to say that a student driver might have a better chance than me at getting hired these days, considering my lack of experience with megas, recruiters, orientations, and platforms like Tenstreet.

That being said, can anyone shed some light on whether forms like the one I’ve uploaded are now common practice for carriers? Now I’m no employment law attorney, and while I’m aware a company can require drivers to maintain a valid CDL and avoid future violations, can they legally make you responsible for citations that occurred before your employment?

I drove for Legends for all of 4 months, before my retirement. I would still be there if not for my plans to retire early and leave the US lol.....I signed the same form I think back in Dec 2021....Orientation was only 3 days maybe because I had driven already elsewhere for 2 years prior.

I liked it there very much, I had a sort of "dedicated" run from Fontana/Rancho to Texas/ Oklahoma and made bank! I also loved how they paid all bonus's as well. Separately listed as "reimbursements" so NO taxes were taken for those. LIke at the time a $10,000 driver bonus over 2 years. Helped boost my checks when I got those , and I got the orientation pay was the very next days later.

After 1 month of driving there, I also got my $1,000 seated bonus addition.....

.....SAM

It’s no big deal if you don’t have unpaid tickets and don’t get any. This is there way of protecting themselves against a driver not paying tickets and getting a suspended license for not paying tickets. Employers only run your mvr once a year and alot can happen in between.

If you didnt pay your previous tickets, you could lose your CDL while in their truck resulting in them having to pay to retreive the truck.

Do you have previous tickets? No? Then who cares.