DOT Verifications Are a Pain. Or They Were…Until Now

The trucking and transportation industry has no great love for the processes involved in performing U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) Verification of Employment (VOE). Of course, these are essential screenings we all value, but the checks have always been a headache.

Finally, that’s changing.

A Painful Process at Every Stage

When it comes to DOT VOEs, we know the drill:

• You’re working in the ATS to move candidates through the hiring hoops.
• A group of prospective drivers is ready for their VOEs, but you can’t request the verification from the ATS.
• You exit the ATS and order the VOE through the DOT.
• You log back into the ATS to note that VOEs have been started for each driver.
• You wait for the DOT response and check repeatedly for the reports.
• When the results arrive, you adjudicate any issues.
• Once again, you log into to the ATS to manually update candidate records with VOE results.

It’s all the more overwhelming as driver turnover has increased. Most trucking and transportation companies today are processing record numbers of DOT VOEs.

The delays typically caused by a time-consuming, manual process can give competitors a window in which to “snipe” your candidates. And only a combination of diligence and firmly crossed fingers prevents the organization from overlooking a verification, making a typographical error that pulls the wrong VOE (or none at all), or incorrectly recording results in the ATS and acting on bad information.

At Asurint, we knew there had to be a better way but it was nowhere to be found—so we created it.

Announcing DOT VOEs within Tenstreet ATS

Asurint has partnered with Tenstreet, the leader in driver management software, to transform carrier driver hiring. For the first time ever, transportation employers can request, track, and close DOT VOE screenings in the Tenstreet ATS.

With the Asurint-Tenstreet integration, the frustrating manual process, which transportation recruiters and HR teams loath, gets a whole lot simpler:

• You’re in the ATS processing a batch of candidates, including several ready for DOT VOE.
• You click a button to request the verifications for the group of potential drivers.
• You are alerted when results are in and view them directly within the ATS.

That’s it! Asurint handles all the details, with the same intense attention to accuracy, timeliness, and compliance we pay to all our background screening services. And everything is automatically in the ATS.
Managing DOT VOEs within Tenstreet offers key benefits :

• Accelerates time-to-hire
• Eliminates administrative oversights and errors
• Frees up time for HR teams and recruiters
• Offers competitive hiring advantage over carriers without this tool

In other words, the Asurint-Tenstreet integration makes the transportation recruiter’s job easier. We recognize that new hire quality is critical to long-term success in this industry. So we are pleased to offer a tool to help trucking and transportation companies waste less effort on DOT VOEs and focus more on selecting the best drivers to add to their teams.

If you need more information about this technology development or would like a demo, contact us.