am i able to get a CDL???

In all honesty,.. it would be best to wait 5 yrs to get the DUI/Reckless off your record.

You can get your CDL now. Thats the easy part.

Where you will hit a wall is that no company will be able to hire you because as soon as they give your credentials to their insurance company,.. they will deny you from being insured. Or at the very least,.. charge the company a $5,000 - $7,000 premium on top of their existing insurance. No company is going to pay that for someone who has already shown they are dangerous on the road in their own vehicle,.. let alone a $120,000 semi truck.

Not trying to bash you or put you down. But this is what you will come across. None commercial insurance companies may or may not go back farther than 3 yrs. Commercial often look back 5 yrs.

I mean look at it realistically,.. would you hire someone with a recent reckless driving charge? For truckers, your driving record is your livelihood. Insurance companies started cracking down years ago. Its not as simple as just getting a CDL anymore. Now,.. people who have 1driven over the road for 10yrs with impeccable records.. all they have to do is come off the road for what ever reason for 3 yrs or longer,.. and they will struggle to return to work. Their experience means little to nothing with out having been working behind the wheel for at least the previous 3 yrs. They will have to go take a refresher course and even then start at the bottom as if they just got their CDL.

This is how the industry has transformed. Too many drivers not taking their job seriously enough,.. dozing off, speeding, careless, reckless, intoxicated,.. killing people. Enough was enough and now we have the regulations that we have.

If you are serious, hire a lawyer and see if he can petition a judge to wipe the incident from your record. Much will depend on your previous record. The judge will look back through everything starting from when you first got your license and judge you for everything that is on there. If you have more than 3 or 4 speeding tickets in your lifetime,.. any other reckless or DUI's etc,.. you can pretty much hang that idea up.

Like I said,.. getting a CDL is the easy part.

Hurst

 

You can get your CDL...but that job your gonna get won't be all that great.

 

Nothing is impossible. I'm living proof of that.

Keep knocking on doors, keep your head up and nose clean. Expect to be treated like a disease for a while. The main thing, if you do find work,.. what ever you do, do not do anything to jeopardize your record. You will not be in a position to have any wiggle room.

Once you show at least 5 yrs of clean problem free history,.. you can then shop around for better work and feel great about yourself. Until that happens,.. stay humble and focus on due diligence. You can try it after 2 yrs,.. but in this business, 2yrs usually gets you companies that are desperate for drivers. Usually there is a reason they are desperate for drivers. I encourage you to weigh your options intelligently.

Hurst

 

OP , your absolute best choice , would be listen very carefully to what Hurst just posted , both of the posts....he is dead on , both times.