3 year old DUI currently in school.....

Here is a list of DAC violations and the lengths of time companies ice violators out in number of years or lifetime for certain ones.

The People you have been talking to say 5 years, this is in line what is expected of those such as yourself. Hang in there.

Me? I once took three years off but used it by running a dump and trailer paving people's driveways and building parking lots in addition to timbering. A small farm/family operation, no dac in sight for me at that time and I would consider that a great success the way it fell into place for me long ago when I needed to keep driving with a stack of violations that no one would touch.

https://www.everytruckjob.com/faq.html
Q : I have used many services to look for a driving job but I'm having no luck at all. What would keep me from finding a truck driving job?

If you are having more difficulties than normal, there may be something in your driving record, MVR or DAC that is holding you back. The following are examples of items that might keep a company from contacting you for employment:

1 or more felonies in your lifetime
A drug related felony conviction
10 years or older felony conviction
Child pornography related conviction
Convicted of a violent crime
Firearm related conviction
Murder / Rape / Misconduct / Burglary / Robbery / Capital Theft conviction
Assault & Battery
Conviction/ investigated / or suspected of involvement in of terrorist activities
Currently on probation or parole
More than $5,000 of damage from a preventable accident in last 5 years
3 or more moving violations in last 3 yrs
3 or more preventable accidents in last 5 years
Truck abandonment in last 5 years
License suspension is less than 3 years old
1 or more moving violations over 15 mph in last 3 years
A DUI/DWI within the last 5 years or more than 2 DUI/DWIs ever.
Fired in the last 5 years
Ever failed a drug screen

 

Don't mention the lease program. If TransAm approves you, then show up for orientation and don't ask anything about a lease. If they push it because of the DUI, then that's your decision to go for it or not.
Did Baylor say they will take you?

 

Might as well get your CDL in spite of the time against you. At least now you will have it. It's something I would do. Nothing is a waste in life unless you sit and do nothing at all today and lose it all to sloth and laziness. That is a waste.

People make mistakes. But when you decide you are going to go do something like getting a CDL, go get it. You might not use it right away but you will be ahead of the majority of people when your time against you falls off and it's time to go.

 

If you are desperate to get into a truck, you might hire on as a piano body with a moving company. You would be sleeping while moving riding in that right seat until you arrived at the end of someone's house move. Then move everything by hand into the new household for wages as a manual labor but you will have a chance to get out into a truck. But I promise you, you are going to be learning what it means to be bored at times.

 

I don't know about a refresher, most of the time if someone decides you need a refresher, you go take it.

If I was medically able to do right now, I will have to go get a refresher, Not worried about the backing, driving, shifting etc. None of that it will be the hours of service and technology that has gone into a place I consider excessive big brother for me.