Desperate for help, One Preventable, One 15 Over

You might find a local Class B job if you drive around your area and knock on some doors.
The only Class A job I know of that would consider you, and that's a stretch, is Carolina Cargo.

Around Owensboro you might find some Class B delivering produce to grocery stores. Look at Craigslist and do some leg work and maybe you'll luck out.

 

Were you in a cmv when you got the speeding ticket? Either way, 15 over is pretty bad for a professional. And what exactly do you mean when you say you were trying to be more professional? Driving 15 over is not being professional. But I'm not going to give you the lecture, as you say you learned your lesson. You might try finding a yard jockey position, or maybe some kind of non-Cdl driving position, just to rebuild your driving record. Do that for a few years then take a refresher course. That's just my opinion. I'm sure the more experienced guys will have better advice. Good luck.

 

Owenboro?

Look at Rockport Indiana, there is EcKMiller with a number of lease O/O's They haul roughly 350K loads a year Fleet Wide according to 18K quarterly filings.

In what I recall as London KY south of Owenboro is a major Aluminum Coil Producer. You can probably visit the various carriers and O/O at the gate where they gather prior to entry and talk with people and see if you can get hired without too much trouble.

Ive hauled out of there quite a bit. Most of the coil loads were bound for Busch in Williamsburg Virginia over the smoky mountains and return empty for another load of coils going back to be delivered into that beer producing facility.

You are going to and are paying a personal penalty in lost time after the speeding ticket and accident. Companies usually impose a penalty on anyone with a CDL and a hot accident or violation such as 15 over for a period of time. Months and a few years before you are considered for hiring.

you are essentially damaged goods now, No amount of experience is going to have a employer look at you longer than it takes to determine in fact you have these two problems in life.

Im not trying to be heavy or hurt your feelings. At one time in my own life I owned a Ford Torino GT and rebuilt the same from ground up with at that time a awful lot of money and tears. The result was a car that was to cross swords with the State Police often racking up at one point almost 9 points against my license which was a CDL at the time. The Judge knocked a point off my little 25 mph speeding ticket to allow me to preserve my license and sent me to the DMV for a one way converstation, delivered with many bad words and contempt for me and my stupid habits that generated all these tickets.

The result was about three years lost time for me. NO trucking over state lines for me. No one would hire me and so on so forth etc waa waa waa.

My salvation was a blacktop paving company, running a Super 500 Mack converted to a Dump Truck with a beaver trailer and equiptment on it for the day's work, week in and week out until chain season, sit home on unemployment until march enjoying the winters and the nice checks which was approximately half what I was making each week.

But I lost three years 18 wheeler service potential due to those speed and other tickets I accumulated in my GT. What a car it was. That 351 with headers and highrise on double pump holley had a top end that would not quit until right around 5200. Result was a 136 to 140 mph car if the temperature was 48 to 55 degrees outside on 50% humidity using 93 octane fuel with a touch of 100 octane racing fuel.

Someday I will get another 351 cleveland engine either crate new or pull it from a junker GT and drop it into a vehicle to enjoy once again. And the tickets wont matter a whit. Probably until they take the license away or someone builds Nuberergring somewhere here in Arkansas.

So. Rest easy, don't stress. You will be hired again to drive 18 wheelers after a time period has passed. I have every faith and reason in you to become even more professional after enduring this time.

I would consider leaving Charlestown and live somewhere else. if I were you. I live in a nice quiet town in the south where the Police actually have common sense and are warriors against the bad guys. In short, none of the predatory behavior as displayed by the Maryland State police in their very effective wolfpack stragety that scares people who have never been in the state to see it. I once experienced a wolfpack and that story I can tell someday.

 

I'm confused. You said you had a green light and someone turned in front of you and that is a preventable or at fault accident? How did they come to that conclusion?

 

They do solo and that is the pay for it. Now they try to get everyone to team but it breaks down the same. Sometimes you gotta do whatever you can to log a clean year

 

Word to the wise (ie. those that will listen and take heed)...

... get a dash cam.

 

Here is something for you.

Apologies if I repeated a very good post.

This should be Commandment number one written in stone.