getting Hired with an accident

Seasonal jobs, maybe agriculture, forestry. In 2019 you should be able to get most jobs.
Have you looked at your actual DOL abstract? The abstract often looks different than you think.

ETA: I haul logs 8-10 months out of the year and take home more than most OO freight haulers. Then I deliver live plants for a large greenhouse outfit during spring breakup. If you don’t mind getting out of the truck and doing a little work, you should be able to find someone who will hire you and likely pay you better than a lot of OTR jobs by the time you consider your expenses.

 

But of course! This ain't no Michelle Obama approved poppin' corn driver!!! Lotsa salt and extra drippy movie theater butter!!!!


*channels Homer Simpson- "Uhhhmmmm, b-u-t-t-e-r....."*

 

Sorry OP, back on topic.....

You wouldn't happen to live near Chicago and be fluent in any Eastern European languages perchance, would you?


(Sorry, I'll stop now....)

 

Have you tried yet? Have you submitted applications? Where is your location?
There's companies that will hire you; do what you have to do to get started.

Paschall Truck Lines
Carolina Cargo-drivers posting they make $800.00 weekly
Western Express
Martin Enterprises of the Carolinas

Use these if you have to, then in a few months move on. Don't let that CDL go idle, put it to work ASAP.
I really don't see a big problem unless you wait too long to get rolling.

 

First off change your descriptions, do not use the word roll over, ever again iot is the kiss of death in this industry.

The overspeed from 07/2011 is no longer an issue its over 3 years out.

On 07/2015 the failure to stop will no longer be an issue. It will as be over the 3 year mark.

After 07/2015 the only real issue is the to fast for conditions. And it will remain with till 07/2018.

Flip burgers till 07/2015, then you should be good to go. Seriously check craigslist for your area look for the small local people if your in a hurry, companies that use a truck n trailer for deliveries, but not really a trucking company. Lumber yards, Sod farms, Lowes Hardware, etc.. Be diligent you will find someone.

This forum is full of naysayers and preachers of doom, and people that stuff themselves on salty overcooked popcorn. Someone want to pass me the carmel corn...

Try GF LaCaeyse in Grinnell IA if you want OTR, you never know.

 

Good advice; never use roll over. You just had a car accident, not a roll over.

 

Then you're going to wait. A rollover is a kiss of death in this industry. Keep applying, and in the mean time, learn how to be a safer Driver. Look up the Smith System. Take a class on it.

 

Everyone wants to start out with a top notch company, but not everyone is qualified to do so. Take what you can get if you want a driving career. All companies have a trainer program; companies don't just throw you in a truck alone and say "Hit the road." Right now you need to get some miles running the highways to prepare for your next job. A couple of those companies I listed, you will get about 6000 miles a week running with a trainer/team mate doing coast-to-coast turns.

 

Not going to be easy with your record as it currently stands but not impossible. You'll find work if you dig. That's a pretty pee-poor record, though, Linux. And no offense meant. But I wouldn't hire someone with that record. A credible, good-to-drive-for company is not going to hire you with that record. And those companies are hard to find anymore, so that is why I say you have a chance. Plenty of poop haulers to drop app's on. Some really gnarly stinkers will even drop you into their old beater '02 Freightliner with wire seats on a handshake when you meet them at a 7-11 parking. Seriously. I have seen it. Those are the types you are looking at.

I drove for neanderthal-run, poop haulers when I got started and went in with one mover and no wrecks. Ever. Then or now. I couldn't stand the poop outfits. Government driving is not as exciting or potentially rewarding as OTR, but I get treated better and I am home every single weekend, out two, three days tops. Home same night many times. And we have good, properly maintained equipment. So I am weary of the poop outfits that dominate, no, are the face of trucking. You will not get me to say this is going to be ok for you and work out just fine. Your current record is not good. We know that. So expect a not good driving job awhile.

Be sure once you do hit the road, if you do this, be sure to bust your backside to keep a clean record. The easy part is actually your driving. Drive right. Simple. You can do it. The harder part will be making sure you pass roadsides, scales, all of it. Poop outfits do not care about those things and certainly do not care an iota about your life beyond getting from Point A to Point B faster than safe. You will be the one answering for out of service, overweight, logs, etcetera...

With your record, a driving job is going to be negotiating a mine field for a good, long spell. Once the poop outfit lets you go, what next? A poopier outfit? Driving in Mexico?

You may even want to consider something else for a few years, driving citation-free, and let those fall off. Otherwise, you are making an already hard profession so much, much, much harder on you.

I am not sure why you would want to drive with a so-far very unimpressive showing. I hope I am wrong and you become the iconic trucking figure, a stalwart of the industry we can all be proud of, winning truck rodeos, talking to school kids, and gracing trucking magazine covers looking like Dudley Do-Right in a Petro cap. At the moment, however, you shouldn't even be driving a golf cart. You are setting yourself up for a world of hurt for a good number of years if you get into trucking right now. It is often a very nasty profession for even good, law-abiding, citation-free drivers.

Try a different career awhile. That is my advice. Come back in five, ten years when you have proven you can keep the top-side upright.

If you decide to do this now, understand this: you flop your first truck, even if it's a pooper full of 'maters in Fresno, you are done forever. And maybe a spell in the can if you crush some young college student gal's skull in her Kia Rio. I saw that one on I-5 in California. 'Mater driver was going an estimated 75 mph into a connector. Where do you think he is now? With Werner? England? Hair in the breeze, driving fancy OTR equipment, bass boat back home on the lake, hot chic in the right seat, making bank. Or maybe more low-key, with us in government Freightliners making a tidy living with good bennie? Or doing three-to-five in the joint for being an idiot?

No, the more think about it, just say no for now. You are a danger to yourself, others, and setting yourself up for a painful existence. Sorry. It is what it is.