Can't reapply for 1 year ?!?

I have nothing, sorry.
Don't know what their policies are...but if he failed his driving test, I guess he's gonna have to wait.
He still has his other job yet I hope?

 

yes if you fail any of the test you must wait 1 year. Lots of very good drivers here did not make it on their first try, tell your husband to keep his head up.

 

No since counting the days down.There's other driving jobs that pay more.He just has to look.At least he got to take the road test many good drivers don't even get that far.Waiting a yr to reapply is pretty extreme but that's there policy.

 

move on, get another job, or stay where he's at.

walmart ain't all it's cracked up to be.

 

If wal mart pays double then what he's making now,
Then there's a whole bunch of driving jobs that pay
More than what he's making.

Tell him to open his eyes and look around,
Instead of waiting a year to hopefully get another
Chance to apply to the dictatorship that is wal-mart.

 

This place is decent but nothing special, he could do much better pay wise and be home daily at a lot of places.

 

Ok. I will offer a little bit of information. Crossing a yellow line is a sign of either nervous like you stated or poor management of a 18 wheeler. There is a level of precision that is demanded of drivers of big trucks.

I tell you two to forget walmart. let it go. You will run into companies who will tell you not to come back again for a while if ever.

With that said... anyone who is new to trucking faces a dangerous time. I have said over and over that the first year at a minimum is really a problem for new hires to the industry. Preventable damages etc generally get many dismissed and then reported to the DAC reports which is used by the majority of the industry to weed out anything from say... unauthorized use all the way to ESPECIALLY theft and drunken, assault etc. Some ban drivers 5 years at a minimum. For some of that used to be ban for LIFE from trucking but recent years DAC has loosened a little bit.

Not anyone is going to hand anyone a 150,000 dollar tractor, a 50,000 and up trailer hauling god knows how many tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of dollars in cargo if not outright million plus. Not without a careful check.

Now that I got that spiel out of the way, I say this. Any company that stuffy to toss anyone trying to work and tell you not to come back for a year like walmart did... they are hurting themselves. The reason they can do this is because for every driver on the road, there is 50 to 100 more filling applications every day. As long that pool of potential hires seek employment in large numbers, companies can choose the cream of the milk and toss the rest.

Let it go. There are thousands upon thousands of companies out there.

Finally the money. It is way better to have a bird in hand rather than buying feed for two in the bush with money you don't have. The trucking industry and the life style you will be doing for weeks and months at a time is a form of expenses management. You can literally eat yourself out of house and home or spend it all in 1 hour at the casino in vegas. Things like that. Nothing in trucking is a sure thing.

So, if you and yours are working a stable work, whatever the money income is... it is stable. Trucking IS NOT stable. You can run ragged one week, spend the three days off sleeping too tired to spend the pile of money, burn through that in the following week waiting on a 1000 mile haul that requires a day to load and another half day to unload for a pittance. It pays nothing hardly. And let's not get into the holidays where the United States dries up and everyone literally goes home. Nothing moves for a while.

If you cannot sustain a life style you want on the money you have earned this year, you must consider leaving and living somewhere else easier on the finances (Cheaper.) People do that all the time. I did. Maryland is ungodly expensive for anyone stuck in minimum wage or other types of work that vaporized in the 90's Arkansas, I can and did have a house and a few acres of land on hardly nothing each month once paid off. Thank god. It's not that bad.

Good luck.

 

Not sure of where in TX yall live. But he can gain employment with several companies making more than he is now. If the mega-low-mart is paying double what he makes now, he must not have been driving long.

But TX has more 100k p/yr driving jobs than most other areas. West TX has started to pick back up. LTL in some markets is good. DFW has a lot of reefer jobs (not 100k p/yr). Houston and San Antonio has a lot of tanker jobs.