Companies That Hire w/ Unemployement Gaps

Hi There, first time poster..

I really appreciate the knowledge many of you have about the trucking industry and I'm really thankful for the help I've received researching here. But I haven't had any luck finding an answer to this question.

Maybe some of you can help guide us here.

I'm looking for a training company that will accept someone with a 'spotty' employment record.

In the last three years I've worked about 1 year total between about 6 jobs.

It's not an impressive record, I know.

I was also unemployed for the 7 years prior to those 3.

For everyone curious, I was involved in a work accident 10 years ago as a courier. While standing in a parking lot, I was run over by a semi. For 5 years and 11 months I had a torn disc in my spine that kept me from working. I lost my normal driving job, my websites, and my family as a result.

I turned to Christ for help and almost 4 years ago I was completely healed. From one second to the next I went from being 100% disabled to jumping, running and shouting with joy. It was awesome, epic, and completely life changing to how I look at the world.

Swift was willing to give me a shot, but I was a little too honest on their application about some prior, legal where I lived, activity that I did in December and I was disqualified.

I can pass a hair test today, no problem. I also learned I to be more understanding when I read: illegal drugs to include marijuana; and realize, if it were legal for me it wasn't illegal, and obviously not what they meant.

If you know any companies that are willing to work with someone who has an ugly employment history, I'd love to hear who it is and what they would need to cover the unemployment gaps. A notarized letter, references?

Thanks for helping and have a blessed day!

/Drive Safe

 

Thanks @Chinatown I was hoping you would help shed some light.

I live in Yuma, AZ.

Is Carolina Cargo a national carrier? I don't think I've ever seen one of their trucks on the road.

System Transport advertises here heavily, and I just got off the phone with a recruiter from there. Awesome company, but they only take 2 student drivers a week and said the employment history would be a hang up as a student driver for them. They're also mostly looking for NW drivers.

I'm considering Western Express or TMC, but I don't think either has their own school. Or APUs? I just recently moved to AZ, and it's over 100 degrees down here and it's not even summer yet! So I'm placing some higher value on companies that have an APU, considering my home location and that I'll be SW and into CA regularly.

I think a company with their own school might fit me easier, but the Yuma CDL School is only $2,300 and offers deferred payment without a credit check. So I'm really open to any that take a student with a sketchy employment history.

I'm open to flatbed or refrigerated since they pay a little better, but any company that's a good company with APUs is really what I'm looking for. Any idea if Roehl would accept?

Thanks again. I really appreciate your helping knowledge.