When not to tell the truth??

Wow! Don't waste your time. They are not going to consider taking your mother to the doctor as a job.

 

Tell the truth Floyd. I know it sounds crazy, but the truth gets you farther in life than lies.

KH

 

nope, you see in order to be a truck driver you have to work a different job for between 3 to 5 years before you can be a truck driver. you have to work at mcdonalds or burger king or somewhere for years to qualify to be a truck driver. see how insane and crazy trucking is? a person who hasn't worked in 5, 10, or 20 years can go to school and be a nurse, cna, hvac technician, whatever and then they are qualified to get a job and they do. But NOT IN TRUCKING! You have to work at McDonalds for 5 years before you can get a trucking job which is insane and why trucking is a bottom of the barrel job where you work 70 plus hours a week for below minimum wage and you get to sleep in a cramped truck cabin in a truck stop parking lot full of pee and trash and when you fall asleep the dispatcher calls to wake you up saying why aren't you in chicago yet? I don't care if the roads are iced over you have to get the load there! And you get to be on the road, never see you friends or family, never get to go out......yes trucking is great.

 

In reality spend 12 hours a day on reddit, The summerhags booted you from /b. Live in mums basement, beta ultra scoring GuuD on cdl test while never having a license, Went to europe in the Sims and SAGE this post.


Go back to being a brony. You sir, win the fabricated TTR backstory award march 2014.

 

Trucking being a safety sensitive job exposed to background checks you have to be honest. In the past 20 years the DOT and the FMSCA had made significant improvements in eliminating the tricks to beat the system. Drivers use to lose their CDL in one state and go to the next state and get another CDL, hence the 10 year background check and all the related rules. There is so much information available online almost anything very easily can be found or recorded on someone.

No driver is exempt from an accident. If a fatality happens not even the driver's fault the digging deep into one's background takes place by the DOT and lawyers. The lawyers are pretty good at digging stuff up. All of a sudden that no fault accident is turned against you because your CDL was obtained by false pretenses. Next thing you know you are sued for $500,000 and lose everything you own because long ago you told a little lie. It's not worth it! Protect your own interest and that CDL.

Drivers deal with unemployment, sponging off the spouse , working under the table and the such. Usually a piece of paper with a witnesses testimony will satisfy the 10 year background check. The witness can be a neighbor, friend, former employer or someone familiar with your situation. I applied to a company one time and they had me get a notarized statement from my neighbor to explain 3 months I was unemployed. I know a notary down the street so it was pretty easy.

 

Yeah, this was sorta my situation. I applied to a company and got turned down. I got hold of the recruiter and asked her what got me shot down. She said it was because of a gap in my employment history. I told her I was retired since 2009 and drawing a pension. She said there were no exceptions to company policy.

Then I looked at private truck driving schools. I told the recruiter my experience with being turned down for being retired and she said that was a new one on her, and that being retired wouldn't hurt me with the companies that hired out of her school. But then again she was trying to convince me to plop down $4000 for the 4-week course, so....

The company that turned me down was one of the mega-starter "company paid training" outfits.