10 Year Employment History...

Finally a thread that cracked me up!! holy jeepers!!

Dood, I got the same issue...went into office for 10 years, makes my applications look lame...you gotta use all the extra 'add employer' options and go way way back so they see you ran a dozer for 10 years, before you made coffee for 10 years...

 

They're looking for unexplained gaps in the work history, such as a jail or prison sentence.

 

Driving jobs sure. But if you worked allot of short temp gigs, no. I'm on job 41 since 2009. I just put down the good ones and put down, "various employers temporary assignments. "

 

Also, from what I understand, due to the Homeland Security Patriot Act, the companies are also required to see if you were overseas for any length of time, which could potentially, NOT necessarily, mean that there was some involvement with "questionable" people.

God bless every American and their families! God bless the U.S.A.!

 

The ten years history I believe comes from the regulations handed down from FMCSA, so they are only really asking about 10 years of history in anything driving related. Then there are companies like Prime that take regs and run with them and want 10 years regardless of the job field and certified letters from friends or family to fill unemployment gaps to prove your not a terrorist. What a crock.

 

In some respects, the "10 year work history" rule, along with the "unverifiable work history" rule, has hurt some really decent people who would have been both decent employees and decent truck drivers.

God bless every American and their families! God bless the U.S.A.!

 

Yeah, the ten year rule went back to high school for me when I got started. LOL, but I wrote down the burger technician for 2 weeks senior year of high school summer just to appease the trucking gods.

I got my complete work history from social security office and all my IRS filings. I also keep an update resume so I don't go and forget my dates. T's and I's

 

I have been living overseas for the past 12 years so obviously my 10 year work history will be with overseas companies. I sure hope they don't consider that too "questionable".

FWIW, I worked with more shady characters with criminal intent *in* the US than I have overseas.

 

The Sheep is right. FMCSA regs. from the days when guys would get multiple drivers licenses and that crap was hard to check up on. Drivers would get tickets or accidents in one state, get suspended or lose their license, then jump over the border to another and start with another DMV free and clear. Years ago that crap was not cross referenced. The dot is just making sure the trucking company is doing due diligence in hiring the driver.