unemployed friendly companies?

You will have to go lower down the food chain probably, the what I call better starter company's that hire (Prime,May) usually have a work history policy which pretty much goes back 36 months if you haven't worked at least half that time they won't touch you.

I have a solid 40 year work history but since I have taken time off from the rat race from 2011 till now, I have become a leper to most of these company's so I just work on my house and ride my motorcycle all day instead, life is rough.

 

Pride goeth before the fall. You don't really seem to be in a position where you can be all that picky. These mega carriers... Swift, Werner, Schneider, et. al.... sure, they're probably not the ones you'll want to grow old with... but, it's a way to get your foot in the door. You do your time, get some verifiable experience under your belt, and then get the hell out.

 

Hvy - just keep it legal.

Don't get involved in something that will make you push the envelope and hurt you further where you'll never get on with a "good" company.

And for "the laws" - SOME laws we have to have Can't have a world w/out Law&Order. I digress.

regards

 

Unfortunatly it's not the companies, it's their #### insurance companies who make these decisions of only hiring with a certain amount of experience. It's very frustrating.

 

Truth.

When I see ads requiring this amount or that amount of experience, I tell my wife, but I have to call anyways. 1st thing I ask em is can they bend on the experience?

It's always...

NO. Insurance, blah blah blah

 

Try Craigslist and indeed.com. Or just bite the bullet and sign on with an OTR company like Swift or Schneider. I heard Schneider is a good place to go in you need some recent experience or just being a student. Just think of it this way, it's only a year. It will be over with before you know it. That's what I used to tell myself when I first started out. Conway and ABF also have training. Try ABF first though.

 

i was on unemployment for 8 months b4 i went to CDL school Trans Am only asked me to complete an accrate list of previous jobs with no gaps. I gave them all that including a letter from my accountant stating i was self employed for thirty years and had declared bankruptcy, After that it was all a go