Criminal record questions

Just answer the questions on the application honestly and completely! Don't answer what is not asked either.

 

It's ALWAYS better to be rejected over the phone while at home, rather than 1000 miles away sitting in orientation...especially if that's after going through school with a 1 year contract hanging over your head that will now have to be paid with money you don't have.

If you're honest with the company, there should be no surprises. If you omit things from your past, especially if they'll turn up with a simple background check, you stand to lose a lot more. Even a fully qualified driver can be dismissed at any time for cause if it is found out that they lied on their application.

 

Forget Schneider; too late for that company now.
Plenty of other companies will hire you since the charges are so old.

 

She would find out anyway when they do a background check. She's just checking to see if you're truthful.
Read the questions carefully and don't give information that isn't asked for.
Watch the wording in the question:
Have you "ever", blah, blah?
Have you "within the past 5 years", blah, blah?

 

One simple Rule.

NEVER VOLUNTEER INFORMATION.

Example.

Sitting in the doctor's office during DOT Exam, blood pressure machine shows a touch high and a fast pulse indicative of early heart failure (Which I actually have)

Doc ask me wadsamatta with you. You sick?

Oh no.. Just some coffee and them jalapeno omlette out of louisiana this morning (If I am sitting in Shreveport trucking INC for example)

Oh.

NEVER volunteer information. If the doc is suspecting I have heart issues, he has to send me to a heart doctor on a referral and a three month DOT medical card. (Which means you have 90 days to fix the problem you might not get another)

That is one example of never volunteer information that you possess. Make the other person get it out of you.

Trained recruiters, the good ones probably possess a Ried Technique of questioning. They will get what they want to know out of you if you sit there and babble.

Shut up. Answer yes, no, and then shut up. Next question please.

DO NOT LIE. If boss says you got DUI? Say yes and then shut up. Wait for next question.

Keep in mind... in Trucking any company is absolutely authorized to fire you where you are on the end of the earth and have you walk home for failing to disclose what will come out in a proper background check etc.


How Police Interrogation Works

Ried Technique (Usually excellent for drawing words out of hostile opponet)

POLICE INTERROGATIONS – THE 9 STEP REID TECHNIQUE

 

The application will specify which one they require. Some ask for arrests. Some ask for convictions. They all have a time limit as well. You don't have to tell them about anything that wasn't a conviction by law but they may not hire due to an arrest regardless of the outcome. If I were you, I would have anything on my record that was not a conviction expunged and removed immediately. Every state has a process for handling this. Call your local courthouse and ask how to do it.

Be honest but don't shoot yourself in the foot either. Use a little common sense. Do a criminal background check on yourself and see what's on there.

She did you a favor. Schneider sucks. Get your record straight before applying anywhere else.