Cleaning up PSP

Hey I’ve been trucking for about 8 months now and I started with swift. After my fourth preventable accident swift terminated me and finding *reputable* employment has been difficult. There is nothing on my DAC but swift sends out a verification form showing that I have 4 preventable accidents (all minor damage btw) but still it has made finding a good company to work for very difficult. During my two month training with swift I was trained by someone who has only had a year and a half of trucking experience and cut a lot of corners (not doing pre trips, prompting me to falsify my backing log, etc.). Is there anything that I can do to get Swift to remove these things from my employment verification given the information I provided? Any legal actions I could take that wouldn’t be a waste of my time?

SN: The company I went to orientation for told me to call back in 6 months but that isn’t a guarantee so I’d like to do everything in my power to make things easier for me. And yes I still take responsibility for my screw ups and understand that I will have to do some time places I may not want to work but I’d like to minimize said time as much as possible. As of recently I’ve gone 4 months working without any hiccups and I plan to keep it that way. After working for j mar (bc I never want to work for a company this terrible again) I’ve been much more careful and GOAL is now my best friend (as it should have been in the first place) and my head stays on a swivel whenever my truck is moving.

 

It’s definitely the short time. Most places required I had more experience.

 

No, I was terminated my 4th month and I worked for j-mar for 4 months until I quit and went to orientation for summitt...an hr after they assigned me a truck my verification came back and they said they couldn’t hire me, sucks bc an old timer that had 30+ years of experience told me I wasn’t required to tell companies anything that wasn’t on my dac. And This just happened so I’m not currently working. I live in Gary, Indiana.

 

1. Clipped guardrail at customer, trainer was in front seat

2. Took out fender mirror pulling out of spot at truck stop

3. Took out driver mirror trying to back into angled spot

4. Guy tried to drive around me on the shoulder and ran into my passenger side bumper as I was merging (he was behind trailer before I began to merge into right lane.)

Not blaming the trainer, the last three were on my own and I’m holding myself accountable but I don’t believe that these screw ups should determine the rest of my career and I feel I shouldn’t have to work for a sleezeball company for a year until I’m considered a reputable driver.