Back to the drawing board...

hope you the best

 

That's too bad.Your recruiter should have knew this and told you she can't hire you.But then again she may have just missed that part of the applications.If you do apply for another job that requires a medical card,I would make sure to tell the person that does the hireing.But for a mega trucking companies,they all require you take a physical with their doctor for insurance reasons.

 

What company where you with?

 

If you dont mind me asking whats wrong with you friend?

 

Bet it was Prime.

 

Hey good luck Chess and I might see you there around the same time.

 

what was the medical condition if you don't mind me asking. I am scheduled to leave Monday to go to Springfield for training.

 

A recruiter can't make those kind of judgements - it takes a MEDICAL DOCTOR.

Sorry Chessguy, don't let that stop ya! If you do go somewhere else, understand that your experience needs to be OTR to get into Prime.

 

I'm working with a recruiter right now for a different company, and the advice I've been given by several people is that if you have any medical issues that you have to disclose, have your doctor write you a letter specifically stating that you are okay and the medical issue would not prevent you from safely driving. I've read horror stories about people being sent home after having clear DOT physicals and disclosing everything before hand for certain medications, most notably antidepressants. I have a few medications I take, and I have already very clearly disclosed those and will continue to do so at every opportunity, but I still can't shake the feeling that when I arrive for training I could still be sent home for that reason. Apparently the only incentive for the recruiter is to get you to training, and retention doesn't seem to make a difference to their bottom line. They only care about getting you out there, which I find odd because they're still spending resources on you to be there even for a few days. I'd really like to know how common this is with companies.

I'm not even in the industry yet and I already have the opinion that recruiters are absolute scumbags and poorly educated on every aspect of hiring drivers.