When you are work in the transportation industry, truck drivers carry loads as much as 80,000 pounds fully loaded cab and trailer.  If you are not careful it could be kind-of dangerous as a truck driver and everyday motorists.  We went through truck drivers like we would go through socks, very quickly.   Some of the most difficult things we tried to do was run background checks on new drivers or old drivers that were new again. The laws had you very limited on what info you could get on them.  We paid out hundreds of thousands dollars via insurance due to driver that had issues we did not know about.  Our workman's comp went up year after year because of driver mistakes.

Now everything on the internet, finding background information on drivers or any kind of future employees has become the norm.  The folks at Employers Reference Source can provide you employee screening with a list of options they you might want to perform in the employment hiring process. ERS has available to employers like, investigation background checks on applicants, criminal history, federal criminal history, employment background check, education verification check, driving history, that was very important, credit history, this should be good if employee is handling money.

I have never had an issue of back ground checks. Some times with these employee screening checks you are able to weed out issues before they happen in your business. Better now than when you loose your business because of employee error and then it becomes your liability.  It happens in all types of industries and companies everyday.


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