Shut down so far

Sounds like you may be wearing a paper hat and name tag for awhile.

 

Forget any "advice" from negative people. The only person who can stop you from success is you. I only have 5 trucks and two of those were bought today. I have all my trucks spoken for so I can't hire you. But I would give you a shot if my insurance company would let me hire you with the tickets you have. Since I don't have a truck for you right now, I am not going to call the insurance company and ask. They bump my rate up every chance that get.

Those who tell you to avoid 1099 companies are not economically informed. You just have to remember that 1099 wages are less then W2 wages. When you are paid by 1099 you see exactly how much you are being paid. For example. Last week I had a driver who earned $1579. She received a check for $1089 after taxes. I pay W2. My drivers are paid 27% of the gross to the truck. That is where the 1579 came from. Paying her with a W2 cost money. I have to pay Social Security and unemployment and such. So my cost on paying her $1579 added another $201 to the total making it $1780. She grossed $5848 to the company. So she is really getting paid just over 30%. It is just her partner the Government gets 3% of the gross.

The point is when you compare wages between a W2 company and a 1099 company, you have to add 10% to the W2 wages. .45 per mile @ W2 is .50 @ 1099.

 

I would not say that at all.

First, let me say I have never been involved in a domestic violence situation and definitely never had a record. That said, I have been in a couple of job interviews for a truck driving position where that question was specifically asked of me. When I responded with "no," I was told had I responded to the question with "yes" the interview could not go any further.

Of course the moving violations are an issue.

 

Those moving violations will take a few years to drop off your record. It is not the companies not hiring you (They wont...) it's the insurance companies who decide to insure you or not. Those violations show a risk. In addition your DB problem which is active says to me you need to stay where you are until that's resolved and you are truly free to run around the USA.

I celebrate that you are drug and drink free. Hold on to that. That will become your strong asset when companies are capable of checking with your hair (And it will go back 9 months on some drugs like the medicines I take...)

In another strategy you can try, as worked for me once, was going to run a dump truck for somebody who is a very small owner. Like one or three people at most and pays cash etc. You would find in this person pretty much a disregard for your driving history unless you are dumb enough to get pulled over in HIS dump truck. he he... for speeding and things like that. Follow me?

I had a stack of tickets in that time and did three years running a blacktop dump as a ultimate work around. This was several decades ago and the silver lining is that I can hop into that Mack 500 and get right to work at any time in my life should I be in the area. He's probably going to be laying down paving blacktop until 95 or whatever.

You will get through this time. If you got a fast car get rid of it. If you are in a hurry dont be. And if you fly off the handle? Tell it to the trees. Things like that. It's not long these couple of years compared to the rest of your life.

 

DV of any kind here in Arkansas will pretty much create a situation in which employment is a near impossibility, even if you avoided jail. Professional licenses such as CDL would particularly be at risk.

They have really cracked down in this area on that because the old 70's era behavior of beating the wife into proper behavior died about that time too. (You emos don't get excited, I grew up in that time period.... the police simply carted the runaway wife back home...)

And also to reinforce employability a mark of any convicted DV related offenses of any kind will show you the interviewer's door the process ends there if you say yes. If you are violent at home, they will not want that in the work place and so on so forth.

I am not your enemy. But in time all of this will end and you will be on the road with a big truck sometime. Just behave until someone does hire you. You have to. If you don't and incur more enforcement against you? Well... I guess it will be a very long future.

 

This is also my last thought, it occured to me while i was thinking about the problem here.

If you are living somewhere where there is "Too much Law" you will be pleased to discover that there are many places in the USA where there is very little Law. There is still the Law, this is not a anti-law post by any means.

I lived in a part of maryland where i could not fire up my old beast without the state police redeploying to my area to see if one of them will get me a ticket this morning.

Here in Arkansas things are much quieter, I can probably fire that beast up today and the lawman next door will be doing the same to his Harley, Indian or whatever.