Would you?
I will, depending on the price and if’n I think I can make enough to justify it. I think the companies typical do it to weed out the trouble. Just look at what’s apparently going on with Spark, apparently they’re having theft progblems with contractors who’s info can’t be confirmed. Yep, no charge background check, but nothing to stop you from lying on your application.
With Dispatch when I first joined, it was $30 or $35, don’t remember, and I figured that was a small investment. Frayt wanted… $40 I think it was, that or $45, and I was a little hesitant but took a shot at it. They didn’t like the registration paperwork, so although I paid for the background check, I got nothing for it, so I’m a little salty about that. Now I have GoShare, and I’m not sure I’ll move forward, as background checks are $49 or $154, the latter for New York state if’n you’ve lived, worked or gotten a citation there, ostensibly because of a tax on background checks. That must be one heck of a tax to more than triple the price. I grew up there, though I moved in grade school, so does that mean I have to pay $154? Yeah, how about no, anything over $50 is just not worth the investment, especially when I expect the app to be one of my fallback apps at best.
No, sure wouldn’t. I would in fact ask them to repeat their request, and then laugh at them when they did. This was a typical scam recruiter move. If you’ve never dealt with the scam recruiters it’s typically the “Hello my name is Steve and we came across your resume” with a deep Indian accent types. I have read some troubling reports that legit companies sometimes ask you now to pay for your drug/background check, but I haven’t seen any company names I recognize.
Keep in mind that this is independent contractor driver positions, not employment, which is likely why you don’t recognize them, and while not many ask you to pay for a background check, they all do background checks on you.