Are we paying attention when making a new hire?

Many times business owners make the mistake of hiring a new employee without delving into the new hired person's driving record. While most business don't involve actual trucking operations, they can involve having their employee's driving while on company business. These activities can range from occasional errands to a more regular driving exposure such as daily mail pickup and delivery to the post office and other related jobs. While we pay attention to the resume and references, we often overlook the prospective employee's driving record. While we can't order their driving records ourselves we can submit their license information to our insurance carrier to ensure that their driving records are acceptable to the company. While the insurance company can't share the details of the driving record with us they can give an indication as to whether their records will be acceptable. Too often people are hired and business' don't find out about driving histories until they are contacted by their insurance company advising that the new employee can't be covered by their policy. This creates a host of problems for the business owner, from having to find other duties for the employee, which may not even exist, to having to find a separate policy to cover said employee, to ultimately having to decide whether to retain the employee.