Screwed Myself By Job Hopping

Job hopping is not good,It shows your own lack of knowing what you want to do.Some here are telling you there’s nothing wrong with it or everyone in this industry does it both are very wrong and only trying to justify there own bad decision making it’s always someone else’s fault isn’t it.some really believe there to intelligent but look at there choices there intelligent but fall for someone’s bs as they put it they don’t go to a stable job they have to take a chance on some company they obviously don’t know anything about then they throw out the liar complaint everyone lyes if you ever meet someone that tells you they don’t lie they just told you one..First you need to figure out what kind of job do you want.There are some very good jobs in the trucking industry but with anything of value it comes at a cost some people want everything on there first day in the truck.They have no idea what seniority is until they themselves get seniority then they want it to mean something.Figure out what kind of work you want to do for example a line haul job .65 a mile home everyday making $90,000 then find that company and work your way up to that teamsters used to call it paying your dues.Job hoppers only hurt their self it’s simple logic if I’m hiring someone and I have 2 people with roughly the same experience 1 has had 1 job in last 8 years the other 6 jobs in the last 8,would you hire the stable one or the unstable one.Some companies will hire the job hoppers because they have to those are the companies you don’t want to have to work at.And it’s a lot more fun working for a company you want to work for than one you have to work for.

 

To me, job hopping either indicates the person is hard to please/has unreasonable expectations. Or, they don't put up with bull####. To me, it would depend on who their employers were. If they were chicken #### scab companies I'd lean towards them not putting up with bull####.

 

Exactly a lot of companies that are super picky about job hopping tend to expect their drivers to put up with nonsense . A lot of companies understand this and are more interested in your mvr .

 

Yes keep on looking, keep on searching and a door will open for you eventually, sometimes its all about how you market your self, if you want get a professional resume writer to make up a resume for you a few months back I learnt that alot of companies had a certain type of resume/ CV reader and it will automatically reject your CV because it can't read certain words so you may be getting rejected and it has absolutely nothing to do with your work history just a silly computer doing the job a human which is at fault. The best thing to do is read you own CV from the point of view that you pretend your a potential employer reading a possible future employee's application what would you think of the presentation? What are the good points about this potential employee, is he/ she reliable, trustworthy, knows how to get the job done, follows instructions etc etc. The other option is try and do some of your own marketing rock up at a transport site and ask to speak to the HR dept that way you get to hand your CV in person to a human, be honest about your job hopping and convince them that you've moved on and are now more stable. All the best future tractor - trailer hauler.

 

The companies that hire job hoppers often don't treat drivers very well?

 

What Trucking Companies require a resume'? What is a CV? Both serious questions.

 

CV is a resume but called a curriculum vitae (sp?) or something fancy and not required by any trucking company I’ve encountered and that’s even with me being on the recruiting side of trucking for a good 7+ years. Just fill out the standard company application.

 

I'm not going to agree or disagree with you on this. I would just add a general warning about ANY kind of a resume. This goes back to what @Chinatown and others have repeatedly said about volunteering information. DON"T give ANY carrier information not asked for.

 

I was an employer for 30 years and hired/fired more than 100 employees in that time, but I had many that were with me 20+ years. As an employer looking for quality people, I cared less about job hopping and cared much more about terminations from previous employers.

Most trucking companies have absolutely no loyalty to long-term employees. On the contrary, many carriers (megas in particular) see them as an expensive liability that can easily be replaced by a much younger and less experienced driver for a much lower salary. There are a lot of trucking companies out there that treat their drivers like crap, and any potential new job realizes this and won't look at job hopping as a liability as long as the applicant can clearly explain why they left a previous job. I worked for 3 different carriers in my first 3 years of driving before becoming an O/O. My second and third employers could have cared less how many jobs I had and were more interested in my driving history.

 

To have so many jobs inso short of time, I don't understand. Trucking companies, are pretty much the same. At some point, a driver will run into a lie, or some other BS. I dont understand this utopia drivers are trying to find. People job hop because it's too many places to go, and folks are always looking the "next big thing." Ay some point, a driver has to make something work. At the end of the day, it's moreso on the driver than it is the company in my view. I could see going from training company to a company that more caters to experienced drivers, but to hop around the same level, I can't understand it