Less than 3 months worked on applications?

The more truthful you are about employment history, the better it will be in the long run. Get a job under false pretences, and you might have it yanked out from underneath you.

Unforeseen circumstances can be forgiven by rational potential employers, so long as they are not unforeseen circumstances like jailtime.

That doesn't mean you will get that peach job you want, but you should be able to find something.

Just be prepared to explain what happened, and why it will not happen again.

 

No need to be honest to a truck company that will lie to you from day one..

 

Wow if a guy came to me wanting to drive for me all that would set off red flags. If you dont report your driving history it could get you fired , even a mistake of time worked could go against you . Good luck

 

I have some jobs I was only at for a short time. Just not paid what I was promised and one job they turned out to be obsessed with getting their drivers into trouble so I quickly left. But yes some jobs I’m not getting because the job jumping is blamed on the driver. But if I’m told I’ll make all this money and I don’t make close to it why should I stay️

 

Just because you job hop doesn’t mean your a bad worker. I’ve seen guys who never been anywhere and been with the company for 15 years are the biggest piles of crap I’ve ever seen. My buddy has been trucking for 12 yrs and probably has had 20 different driving jobs. He’s a good worker never calls off but just gets bored easily. Mclane grocery gave him a chance and he’s not going anywhere and finally found a home and has been there a year. His 2nd longest job in his 12 yr driving career.

Put the experience down cause at the end of the day it’s experience. If you don’t then it’s like you have no experience. My buddy went from Sysco to QCD in less then a year and was at QCD for a month then went to Mclane. He walked off the job at Sysco too brought the route back and quit.

 

If there were more out of work drivers then jobs then a history of job hopping might matter. Honestly right now almost all carriers are so desperate for drivers they are forgiving things that used to be the kiss of death to a driver. This is why I advise honesty. best policy, keeps later problems from happening and in the end does not mean much.

 

OTR jobs will hire anyone with a clean driving record and a pulse. Good paying home every day jobs are a bit more competitive.

 

One thing I'm not sure people realize is an OTR job, while you're not home every night, this can save you a fortune, especially if you're single like me.

When I had a job that paid less but I was home every night, my expenses were MUCH higher. I had to drive 25 miles one way to work, so 50 miles per day even in a car that got 35mpg was a decent fuel bill. Driving more meant I paid much higher insurance rates. Being home every night meant I spent more on food because I cooked more. Cooking more means I used more electricity and my AC ran far more because I was home all the time.

Now I'm making 3 times more than I ever have in my life, even as an airplane mechanic, and my expenses are about 1/3 what they used to be. I'm paying 14 dollars a month car insurance. I have State Farm and I opted for the little device in the car that records how you drive, how much, etc. So I can PROVE my car sits for 2 weeks dormant. My insurance rates went from 75 a month to 14 a month. I have a Ford F250 and a little Nissan truck. I dropped insurance on both of those and SF allows me to put insurance on those vehicles only when I want to use them. So if I want to go fishing I grab the F250, call SF put insurance on it for a day and pay like 3 dollars or something. Park it, cancel the insurance, and be done.

OTR might be a little hard to get used to at first, but now I enjoy it. I can be home whenever I want to (with enough advance notice) and still live cheap.