What Company Will Give Me A Chance?

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  1. apickupman

    apickupman Bobtail Member

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    I've got 17 yrs of otr, but I've been out of the truck for 9 months taking care of family situations. I want to get back in the game, but nobody will let me in now due to multiple challenges...

    1. I have diabetes. I'm not on insulin, but I've had a few companies tell me that my sugar is out of control at 200ish.. Hospital said A1C was 8.4 in march when I had covid.

    2. Car ran a red light a few weeks ago, but I got ticketed for failure to yield.

    3, and worst, I quit my last job back in Sept. but boss is telling people he fired me because of too many accidents after I damaged a trailer a few days prior to quitting.

    No company will even talk to me after, according to my old boss, I got fired.

    Does anyone know of a decent company that would even give me a chance ?
     
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  3. TripleSix

    TripleSix God of Roads

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    Do you have a current DOT medical card?
     
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  4. kylefitzy

    kylefitzy Road Train Member

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    Where do you live? What kind of trailers have you pulled? What kind of trailers do you want to pull?
     
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  6. Chinatown

    Chinatown Road Train Member

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    Metformin and walking will bring the sugar down to acceptable levels.
    Of course you still have to watch what you eat and lay off the beer.
    ~
     
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  7. Chinatown

    Chinatown Road Train Member

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    Plenty of CDL jobs on Facebook and Craigslist that pay on 1099 and very lenient on hiring criteria.
    Failure to yield, damaged trailer, diabetes, won't get you on with a decent company, but probably still make good pay.
     
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  8. staceydude

    staceydude Road Train Member

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    Eating better also, I got my A1C from 10.3 to 5.7 in less than a year and #### if I could not do better. 8.4 will still pass DOT, don’t get on metformin unless you have to. Eat better and walk.

    I bet someone will give you a job.
     
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  9. apickupman

    apickupman Bobtail Member

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    I have a current medical card, but I don't have the card. I have no clue where it got off to in the 3 moves I've done this year.
     
  10. apickupman

    apickupman Bobtail Member

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    OOOOH, lay off the beer?
     
  11. Chinatown

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    Checked my sugar and it was 140, then drank a beer and it jumped to 218.
    Doctor said no beer or wine.
    I have a wine cooler in my bedroom with 6 unopened bottles and can only look at it.
     
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