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Corra Group Undergoes a Change in Strategy for Its DOT Compliant Random Management Drug Testing Consortium

Corra Group has revised its strategy to better accommodate larger trucking and transportation companies and their Random Management Drug Testing Pools for Department of Transportation compliance mandates. The El Segundo, California based background checking service will now accept trucking companies with fifty drivers or more into Random Management Consortium.

“Corra Group previously accepted any trucking company to enter its Random Management Consortium,” said Corra Group Co-Founder, Nick Gustavson. “But going forward we will only be pursuing trucking and transportation companies who have fifty drivers or more. The higher volume allows us to better service the mid-sized companies while assuring a certain consistency in the management service. We can provide a complete trucking employment screening package.

“The smaller companies, we are finding, are often disorganized and unstable, going out of business with little or no warning,” said Gustavson. “For their minimal number of drivers, they are often disproportionately labor intensive when compared to the larger trucking firms.”

Gustavson pointed out that the energy surge of several years ago promoted an urgent need for truck drivers to work in the gas and oil fields in places like Wyoming, Oklahoma, and North Dakota. He noted that since the decline in energy demand, many of the trucking companies have been reduced in size or have gone out of business.

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A New Twist in the Trucking Industry

Corra Group provides services for the trucking and transportation industry.  We assist our clients with remaining in compliance with the Department of Transportation standards.    We have any number of services  regarding background checking and employment screening packages for the trucking and transportation industry. So, naturally, when we see an innovative take like this we report it.  An Uber-like twist on the trucking industry where truck drivers are texted jobs and can show up at the depot and loading docks for work.

As the Wall Street Journal article reports, some new startup companies will help reinvent the trucking industry and how businesses are conducted.

According to the article…”A series of startups are vying to become an “Uber of trucking,” leveraging truck drivers’ smartphones to quickly connect them with nearby companies looking to ship goods. The upstarts aim to reinvent a fragmented U.S. trucking industry that has long relied on third-party brokers, essentially travel agents for trucking who connect truckers with customers.”

We shall see if it takes hold.

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Corra Group Now Listed with Quick Transport Solutions

For those conducting background checks for  employment screening in the trucking and transportation industry, please note that Corra Group is now listed  on the Quick Transport Solutions website.

Corra Group provides a complete range of trucking background checks for Department of Transportation, DOT, compliance standards.  These background searches include Motor Vehicle Records Searches, MVRS, DOT Drug Testing,  DOT Employment Verification, PSP Reports, and Criminal Records Searches.

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Corra Group is Now Issuing the Five Year Motor Vehicle Driving Records for Texas CDL Drivers So They Remain in Compliance with the DOT

Corra Group is assisting its trucking and transportation clients by offering the five year [Motor Vehicle Driving Record for Texas CDL Drivers. The five year MVR will display both medical certification and a more comprehensive list of traffic violations that will assist trucking companies with their employment screening and hiring process.

“To be compliant, it is necessary for all commercial drivers of vehicles in interstate commerce with a maximum gross vehicle weight rating of over 10,000 pounds to obtain and maintain a valid Medical Examiner’s Certificate (ME Certificate),” said Corra Group Co-Founder, Nick Gustavson. Since the beginning of 2015, the Medical Examiner’s Certificate is displayed on the MVR for just about every state in the union.

“Texas is unique,” said Gustavson. “The DMV has both a three year and five year driving report. Many truckers used to run just the three year driving record as it would potentially raise fewer red flags by showing fewer traffic violations while still meeting with minimum Department of Transportation mandates. “But the much needed Medical Certificate is not featured in the Texas three year driving record search. It is only on the five year track. To accommodate our clients, Corra Group is moving all of its trucking companies over to the five year track and urging its new clients to do the same.”

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