Background decent company

OP, maybe try CRST is all else fails.

 

PTL seems to be a second chance company and the drivers that post on here, that have the most complaints are those that do the lease/purchase program.
Try some others also and don't mention the probation unless specifically asked.
May Trucking Company
Western Express
PI&I Motor Express
Ard Trucking Company
USA Truck
Wiley Sanders Truck Lines
Big-M Transportation

 

This is a bit of an old thread. I wonder how long it has been since this OP finished his sentence. Just about every company I know of wants you to be at least a year free from the sentence/probation/parole. One of my neighbors whom is still on federal Probation called Trans AM and had a recruiter to tell him he could not work for them until a year passed AFTER being released from probation. I got him a driving job in Norfolk, but it is not all that good paying and he is having to do backbreaking work.

 

jeez I get so tired of this bad advice and lack of common sense. IF YOU ARE ON PROBATION YOU MUST TELL YOUR PROBATION OFFICER AND IN MOST CASES GET THEIR OK TO LEAVE THE STATE. You can not do this while on probation and the carrier not know. At some point either on a background check or interview your going to be asked this question. You can not lie and if on probation YOU MUST inform them, this applies even if you are applying to pick up dog dung.

 

He's not on probation; he was in the past, but not now. He's also been OTR for awhile now.

 

Well if we are going to talk facts. Probation is not the same as Parole. Sometimes you are placed on Probation when you have an SIS or an SES. If you conviction is part of an SIS or SES you do not have to report it to your carrier as it is not a conviction as long as you complete the term of Probation. If you have been release from prison then you are on Parole. Being on Parole will show up in a background check. Provided they do one. All you are required to do is check with former employers to see if that person failed a drug test. There is no requirement that a company checks for criminal background.

Should you tell your company your past? That depends on what the reaction would be. If the company will not hire you if you tell them your past, why tell them your past? Get the job, do the job, do it well and the company won't care about your past. As long as you don't repeat it.

 

Yes after re-reading the thread I see that. However my comment is still spot on. You have a bad habit of either prefacing your "recommendations" with advising a driver to either out and out lie or worse lie by omission. Or ending them with ignore posted carrier preferences and just leaving it at that leaving the impression carriers routinely just ignore their own policies in regard to hiring. It is like I said I think yesterday. A carrier most times will not bend their hiring policies. These experience requirements most of the time is rooted in Insurance rules. Carriers will sometimes hire drivers with zero experience but it is on a case by case basis and does not happen all that much. Like I said I don't own this website. I don't make the rules in regard to dishonesty in advice. However I am not afraid to call ANYBODY out that gives bad advice like you sometimes do. When you have something like a felony yes it is possible most times to get at least a phone call from a recruiter. However most carriers as a part of their orientation do background checks and if someone follows your advice they are at serious risk of being sent home from said orientation because of being less then honest on their application PLUS they now have this being sent home on their DAC's. Because carriers that use DAC report orientations. I would hate to have to sit in another company orientation later on and try tell the carrier I got sent home for being dishonest not something to be proud of. If you think I like making these kinds of posts or get pleasure from making them you would be wrong. Nothing would please me more then to go on with the bantering and have fun. This is part of the reason TTR forums are here. But your advice especially to rookies and newbies is most times reckless, irresponsible and lacks common sense and I can't just sit by and watch you do it anymore. YOU SHOULD NEVER UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES ADVISE ANYBODY ROOKIE OR OLD HAND TO LIE ON AN APPLICATION BY OMITTING ANYTHING THAT WILL EFFECT THE DRIVER IN ORIENTATION! << You do this constantly and I am actually surprised the admins here let you do it, especially in this forum!!