Driving record too bad to be employable...????

With a CDL, you ARE in this category. Anything over 15 mph is a serious violation. CDL rules are different.

 

Your statistics come from where on this point? The trucking job market has tightened up in the last year... so if
you are competing with 10 other applicants, and 8 of them have a better driving record than you, who do you
think is not getting past the initial application stage? A recruiter may say "sure, no problem"... but then you'll
never be called back.

 

OK, I'm not being rude but, you have a rebuttal for everything. I'm not understanding why you are spinning your wheels with us. We have experience and jobs. We are telling you what we THINK. You seem to know the answers, so why ask?

I will be blunt, if you can get someone to hire you with your record, don't ask questions. You will be fortunate to have such an offer. My insurance would laugh if I presented you to them. Yes, you could get insured somewhere, someway, and somehow. The question you need to ask is how much EXTRA is it going to cost. If I was looking for a driver and he had more than enough experience with a driving record like that, I would have to make him pay the difference in insurance. That would be 2 to 4 thousand dollars, at leased. That's if I could get him insured.

 

If they state no more than 3 violations in one year is one thing. Insurance companies look at the amount of violations and the period of time for them. Someone with 3 such violations would be eligible for hire, but seriously looked at by the insurance companies because they happened in under a year.

It would appear to the insurance companies that you have little regard for the laws and would present the image of unsafe driving.

Would you be hired? Maybe at the lesser companies, but they have tightened the reins a bit.

 

Its amazing that I have been driving for 2 years and I know that your speeding record is going to hurt you badly for jobs. Forget the state rules. That 92 in a 70? Thats wreckless driving for CDL holders regardless if it was done in your car or truck. Many good companies will not hire you period. Also that hurts you when competing for a good trucking job with others. The more crap you have that goes against you like speeding your company has to pay higher premiums for you and many of them simply do not want to do that. Also the 2 year sweet spots is because many trucking insurance companies dictate who can be hired based on experience. Now granted companies can go to bat for you and try to convince them to hire if they are in great need. Your best bet now is to get hired on with a smaller company who is desperate for work. If you try to pursue local work which I suggest you do later after 2 years I hope you do not get any more tickets. Local companies pay way more then crappy truck load companies ever will. Also going owner operator is not a good idea either with rising fuel prices. You should get into economics. With the dollar falling(which is a good thing for some industries) our imports (oil) become more expensive and with countries like China demanding more oil ramping up their production the demand is higher then supply raising the prices further. Also the stock market likes to play games with current news and wars also spiking it up and down.

So my advice is get some discipline and stop speeding. Your not saving time anyway, and your wearing your vehicle out and wasting your fuel to save what? A few minutes? I don't get why people are still speeding like that when fuel is shooting up to 4 dollars on the west coast with the east soon to follow. With all those speeding tickets you are just pissing your money away and hurting your employment chances.