I really need help

Being discharged twice might be an issue. The only thing I can recommend is maybe sign up as a Dockworker at an LTL outfit. Companies like Fed Ex Freight, Reddeway, Dayton, etc. have dock to driver programs, where you can eventually become a driver. Depending on how their training program goes, you may start off in a straight truck or jockey horse. Driving a single screw day cab is a lot easier to learn than with a sleeper.

Many foodservice companies promote from within as well. Sysco and McLane will train warehouse workers or driver helpers (who help the driver to unload the food products) to be become a delivery driver. You can get a first hand look at what the job is like as a helper and ask questions about trucking, before you move up to a driver.

Being a yard jockey might be anouther option. Companies like NFI will train you to become a yard jockey. You'll learn real quickly how to maneuver a trailer and backup as well. And driving around in a lot all day is a lot easier to learn than on the streets. It's a way to get experience without too much hassle. Learning how to shift is a different issue though. But this all depends on if the company will overlook your record.

 

When you get back to driving, remember G O A L---get out and look---more than once if needed and don't get in a hurry.

 

Going to be hard to find a job. You better take Wholly Rhino up on his offer and call him in March. That was a great offer.

 

Get a job running a yard goat. You'll either become great at backing, or figure out that you never will and move on to something else.

As for getting your own truck/authority? Please don't.

 

This approach is difficult and expensive. I admire the tenacity, but a few weeks in a parking lot with some cones and maybe a spotter, would probably have resolved the issues without the need for so much damage. Tenacity is a rare animal, these days, but there are perhaps better applications for it, than learning things the hard way.

Do yourself a favor, and get better at the job, first. Then, tenaciously carve out a spot for yourself in this business, and hire me for a nice, cushy office job...

 

I did suggest the owner-operator option, to illustrate the cost of obstinacy, in quantifiable terms. It is SO much cheaper, to learn to drive in a school environment, than out on the road...

Although it is a valid solution to his issue, it isn't particularly practical. I was fairly confident that he would reach that conclusion on his own. Sometimes, people respond poorly to the suggestion that they are not sufficiently educated, about a subject - but if they reach that same conclusion on their own, they are occasionally more receptive to it.

 

Even if some company hires you, you have to pass their pass their driving test. That includes backing and concentration. You don't want another dismissed or not accepted, do you ? You need to get on with a trucking company other than as a driver, do a great job and after a year or so when you have proven yourself, when they know and like you,go to the right person and they .likely would give you a chance to be in their training program.

IF you got your CDL training from a trucking company, they should not have let you graduate. You are not going to get anywhere here. I would go back TO THE TOP of the company that trained you and have them finish your proper training. You're not trained enough and are too dangerous to peoples lives, including your own, to be behind the wheel of a big truck.

 

Dude, take it from a guy who hires people, you need to find another line of work.

Sorry to crush your dreams but one parking lot accident really says it all but several tells me you won't make it no matter what others will tell you to do.

YOU had to back up for your road test which means under stressful conditions so if you can't back up in bright daylight with someone else there to help you, then I think you are better off finding something else.

Another reason I am saying this, is if you go to some of these shippers and hit things there, they will file a claim against your company, then the insurance may investigate you and the company will fire you on the spot. You may be on the hook for some money for that accident. Some of these shippers can be real ########.

 

Ridgeline said it right. I do the hiring where I work and if somebody had a record like yours I'd almost automatically put it in the round file. One parking lot accident might be excusable but several sends up way too many red flags.
If you do manage to get another job be very aware that it's probably your last chance. If you continue to screw up your record will be so bad that nobody, and I mean nobody will hire you.
Trucking isn't for everybody and you might do well to consider another line of work.