Do trucking companies find out about all your employment history even if it's not driving job?

I wouldn't mention being fired. Anytime the question is "reason for leaving?", I always say "for better pay and benefits."
Why does he want to work for Covenant? The drivers making any money run teams and have hazmat endorsement.

 

They go back 7 years to 10 years that you worked under a 18 wheeler or in a Class B Truck heavier than 26,001 pounds with a CDL. Generally all time will be accounted for. Gaps of a month or larger they will question you and if necessary run a check against your work to see if you worked for other employers for whom you might not be disclosing for a variety of reasons.

For newer drivers who do not have the 7 or 10 year history related to trucking, it is usually a good thing to demonstrate a period of years service to one employer. Even better to prove a time in a management, leadership or other position for which you are responsible to people and have a crew of people to take care of.

Trucking Companies are not handing out 150,000 dollar tractors and 50,000 dollar trailers with potentially half a million dollars in cargo on or inside of those rigs to just anyone. There is a form of trust that is offered only to the best candidates each week.

 

No way to know. All depends on the job you had and who they were connected to. If it was a large company they may be involved with DAC which would show (DAC isn't only for trucking) and there are other 3rd employment verification companies and you never know what people are using. Your probably fine but theres no way to know for sure.

 

I'm not chewing anybody out. All of us have probably smoked some weed at one point and would have failed a DOT drug test. Your friend doesn't seem to have failed a DOT drug test, so he shouldn't have any tangible record of this. If he doesn't list the employer, they're not going to find out. At first I misunderstood, I thought it was a year and a half, not 1.5 months.

I've omitted employers before. In my younger days a decade ago, I smoked marijuana daily. I failed a pre-employment drug test. I have never listed this on any applications, because it's not relevant to my life today. I have built a successful career as a driver. If your friend can put all this behind him permanently, tell him not to list anything and to be a better man out of it. But advise him of the serious, serious legal repercussions of using schedule 1 drugs and operating these vehicles. Maybe suggest that he look into alternatives to get high, like "legal buds," aerosol paints or "bath salts." He could also do PCP, I'm pretty sure that doesn't come up on a DOT drug test. I don't know who the hell would want to do PCP unless you want to get beaten by six police officers, tazered, jump off an overpass , fall six stories to your death and walk away from it not feeling anything. Haha know what I mean? Of course you do. Everybody can relate to this, because as truck drivers, none of us use schedule 1 drugs. We all get around this by abusing things like paint thinner. I'm a fuel hauler, and when I want to alter my state of mind, I just go to the loading rack, load 8800 gallons of fuel, close up the internal, climb up on top of my tanker and huff the massive amount of hydrocarbon fumes spilling out into the atmosphere. But that's just me. I'm a simple man. That's just something I enjoy.

 

I never got into the wacky tobaccy. That must make me strange. I have drunk enough Jim Bean to float a Carnival Cruise Ship around. That was a long time ago.

 

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Good stuff, that betel nut. Love it. Can order it on Ebay. I buy it at the local market in Beijing.
I took about a half suitcase of it through customs in San Francisco and nothing was said.

A betel nut beauty
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I have the same type thing and decided that disclosing a short term job would raise fewer eyebrows than if they found it and then wondered what else I might be hiding.

 

Haha, you're a maniac.. isn't Betel Nut illegal now?

 

Yeah, you're welcome. At age 21 we all learn hard lessons, at least he wasn't impregnating the wrong girl and getting stuck with child support payments, learning that lesson every month for 20 years. I'm definitely not saying I made this mistake. I'd rather fail a drug test than admit to this on a public forum. He's young enough that if the world knocks him down he can get right back up and slap them in the face. If he was only there 6 weeks just have him lie to himself and say it never happened. Get on with his career and keep going. Being a driver is way different than being an electrician. I used to get high regularly on weed, and I find driving alone all night is far more rewarding than herb ever was. The alone time is mind-cleansing to say the least . You really get to know yourself when you're alone in a moving vessel for 60 hours a week. You might even start to lose it a little bit, talk to yourself, think of crazy things on a 200 mile stretch of desolate highway between the hours of 1AM and 5AM, not seeing another person around you for miles. Nobody's gonna snitch on you at your driver job , your coworkers are nowhere around. They only know what you tell them. But in this job, you can either hang or you can't. The hours fly by when you're completely alone at work, if you're an introvert , and I am an introvert...so it works. That 70 hours a week comes pretty quickly if I stay on that long.