Month: March 2008

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Trucking and Transport Companies Need Driving Background Checks for DOT

Corra finds that this time every year more trucking and transport companies are calling and asking for Motor Vehicle Driving Reports on their Truckers. Some will also request criminal reports as part of the compliance issues for the Department of Transportation (DOT).

There was a time when the trucking industry could rely on their insurance companies for the driving abstracts. But that time has all but come and gone. Most insurance companies no longer provide the driving records, citing Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) compliance issues.

Fair enough. If you need driving reports or, for that matter, any other type of background checks, then by all means call Corra. Corra will help you with your DOT compliance issues as well as provide preemployment screening services for your employment candidates.

Check them out before you hire.

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Business Credit and Business Research, Not to Be Ignored

The ABCs of Business CreditLearn why it’s important to establish a business credit report separate from your personal credit and just how to do it.

By David Gass |

URL: http://www.entrepreneur.com/money/paymentsandcollections/article76886.html

As an entrepreneur, did you know you have a unique opportunity to build, maintain and acquire credit both individually and as a business owner? That’s good news if you’re trying to build and grow a company because you won’t have to rely solely on your personal credit to do that.

As a member of the business credit industry, it’s been my experience that fewer then 10 percent of all entrepreneurs know about or truly understand how business credit is established and tracked-and how it affects their lives and businesses.

So let’s first take a look at how personal credit differs from business credit. Then we’ll discuss some steps you can take to build your business credit.

For the entire article go to entrepreneur.com

Corra knows a lot of business owners acquire credit because they are hard working, diligent and intent on using the money to expand their businesses. By far and away, this is the largest group of business owners. These are good people in which to enter joint ventures, partnerships or to rely upon as vendors for your goods and services.

They also make good clients. They pay.

But then there are those who have learned how to work the angles, to boost credit for themselves and their businesses by using questionable and sometimes illegal means to do so. Let’s face it, there are a lot of scammers out there, and this economic climate brings them out of the woodwork.

To assure you are not about to become the victim of some fraudulent scheme, you should perform due diligence on anyone, any business with home you are about to engage. Whether it be a partnership, a joint venture of sorts, or whether you are planning on using them as a vendor or taking them on at a client, it is often wise to conduct business background checks.

Corporate credit checks are important, as are the comprehensive/business partner searches on the key executives and company owners. You may even run criminal and civil checks at well.

Because, if you don’t, there is a chance you could be the victim of fraud. You could lose money and face an embarrassing and even criminal situation.

So check them out before you do business.

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For Employees The Work Goes On

Nearly 80 Percent of Workers Remain Confident in Job SecurityNearly 80 Percent of Workers Remain Confident in Job Security ST. LOUIS , January 6, 2008 – The confidence level of U.S. workers slightly decreased in December, according to a recent survey of 2,827 working …Go to topix.net

Corra finds the pattern of wavering confidence in job security to be most interesting. Corra supposes that with so much information being processed at any given point, and so much data being filtered and subsequently interpreted for meaning, the prognosis and the interpretation of the data can seem to change at any time. So then, are we really living in a mutable and relative society where even our hard data defies any concrete impressions? Hard to say.

What Corra does know is that times will change and there will be more jobs and fewer. The truth in data as we see it is the consequences of the last number of years have caused an even greater need for background checking, even at the lowest levels of the work force. There are many reasons for this, and most are not worth going into at this time. Chances are you know them already.

Just remember. Check them out before you hire.

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Corra GroupWishes All a Very Happy Easter

The warmer weather is rapidly approaching. Well, here in Southern California Corra is always treated to the warmer weather. This week many people will spend time with their families to pray and socialize, maybe barbecue, and certainly to show off those spiffy new Easter Shoes.

Come Monday, most of us will be back to work. Save maybe for the students on Spring Break, lucky devils, who have not yet wiped off the suntanning lotion and staggered back to their respective schools. And Monday may be the day your are hiring new employees for the coming season. Before you do, run background checks on every serious job candidate. It’s the smart thing to do, and it is very cost effective. Just call Corra.

Meanwhile, we wish you all a very Happy Easter Holiday.

Check them out before you hire.