Job Application Question

Most companies want last 3 yrs. accounted for unless you were a commercial driver. Just be honest, during those gaps you were unemployed and doing handyman work around the neighborhood. Just be honest about the barber work.
Some companies won't hire you, but many will.
Apply with Abilene Motor Express; seems like one of the more reasonable companies around.

 

We're you living alone or with family during your periods of unemployment? If with family, just have them write/sign a letter saying they were supporting you. I had to sign one like this a few years ago for my girlfriend.

 

I'd apply now. Many large or medium companies are good also. Don't get hung up on the small companies exclusively.

 

Just don't tell anyone that you were in a boot camp in Syria.

 

Write up a brief explanation about each gap. Companies, in my experience, are worried you were in jail. I spent 6 months before my current long-term job resting from OTR, spending my savings, and researching/trying to start an internet biz, when the internet was pretty new to consumers. I simply wrote a paragraph or two explaining what I was doing and verifying my residence was consistent during the gaps.

Mostly they just need any reasonable explanation. Keep it brief. Think back, maybe you were volunteering or trying to help family, or fixing up your or friends/family's property. The key seems to be "occupied" "legal" and just coincidentally unpaid.

 

Or that you roamed around the African continent with Wooly Rhino and you both had the same BFF, Mike Hoare. By the way, Wooly Rhino, your friend Mike didn't answer my inquiry about working for him; probably worked out for the best. A bunch of us signed up back in the 1980's while he was in prison but didn't get a notice to work.

 

I had multiple unemployment gaps on applications. All the megas wanted me, along with a few medium sized companies for their CDL training. I would not worry about it all that much. JPT asked how I had money and what I was doing, I said " I had money saved and was trying to find an ideal job"
Good luck.