How long before getting a job with a DUI on record?

I wasn't refering to you personally...actually just thinking out loud.

 

That's it; are the court proceeding over? If you didn't lose your license, there's hope to get back on the road soon.

 

Post for a job on Craigslist. Sometimes there's hope there with a small one truck operation or just a few trucks.

 

Got my dui in 2001 with perfect mvr and 20 some years accident free .
After it was a year old I got picked up by a small fleet that tended to keep high risk drivers that produced .
When they went out of biz my dui was about 2.5 years old and got right on with a mid size carrier that I had previously worked for but only with a stern warning that if I got so much as a parking ticket I was gone .
It wasn't until it hit 5 years old that I quit getting flak about it .
Good luck to ya op and live and learn .

 

You are either about to dodge one hell of a bullet or you're going to get screwed royally. Could go either way.

If you make it back to work and suddenly the desk pogue for the court realizes something is missing while they're going through files then things could get really complicated for you one through the court and 2 through the new company.

 

You lucked out. Keep quiet about it.

 

companies go by DAC and your own admisson, so keep quiet.

 

Years and years.

There is a time in my day you were banned for life from touching big trucks with drinking convictions. They should reinstate that. That way it will settle whatever questions people have.

I realize that the courts have to work the system, make a judgement of guilty and then the states get involved with the license suspension, revocation, jailing, fines etc. (Arkansas intends to make anyone who is DUI etc pay a minimum of 10K in fines plus whatever other punishments etc)

I hate to be so hard on that. Im sober a number of decades and like my drinks. But not so much that I will drive with anything in my system. I simply do not.

I realize people have to make a living and enough is enough at some point in life. But the system is set up with laws passed by the legislatures etc with the consent of society and that is what we have to live with. People where I come from when the courts got through with them, they did not drive for a long time and ended up moving to where there was a bus or trolley rail to get somewhere or bought a bike. One company I ran for, one of the family of the owners caught drinking and lost his class A and life time ban, he was still fortunate to be given a desk and a phone inside the office to continue whatever poverty he found himself in at 22.