Felons in a truck

You're right, it's not their fault. Remember that when you tear up a bumper or fail to pre trip properly and have a blowout, and they fire you for damaging equipment, it's not their fault you screwed up.

Why should they hire you? Why should they hire anyone? What if the day you walked in and applied, the owner despised the color of the shirt you were wearing and refused to hire you?

Maybe the company, owner believes in giving 2nd chances.

People make mistakes, how you recover from that mistake speaks volumes about you and your future. Studies show, a convict with a strong support system, is less likely to become a repeat offender. Do you know what's part of that support system, family, friends, loved ones, community, employment.

 

As a convicted felon, thank you. I'm lucky to work for a mom and pop company that believes in taking chances, Nov. 17th, I'll have been there 20 yrs, because someone took a chance. Actually, several someone's took a chance. If you ask my bosses, I can assure you, they will tell you they would do it.

 

Seems like a good title for a children's book by MATD. See the felons in the trucks, they're all felons in trucks. Beware the felons in the truck. We don't want them in our town, we don't want them on our roads, we don't want them at our shops while we shop, shop, shop. Felons and trucks, trucks and felons, they're one and the same, felons and trucks. No trucks no felons, no felons no trucks. If you see a truck run, run, run far away.

 

I love the ignorance of some people, I too am a convicted Felon, I have had my CDL for 22 years with no accidents or tickets, 2.3 million safe miles. If someone hadn't given me a chance years ago, who knows. Since 9-11 it's not as easy as it once was to get an opportunity with something on your record.

 

Some of these people seem to think felons need to pay way beyond what the law said they had to. Myself I cheer when someone gets out of prison and does well.

 

I was thinking movie, but a book works too.

 

HELL I remember some days it's half minimum wage for two people in our time. Those were bad days and we were supposed to collect something like 70 cents to the truck.

 

The stigma associated with felons angers me. Once someone does their time they should be resuming life as normal afterwards. Stripping them of the right to vote and possess firearms really rattles my cage too. It's wrong!

I'm not taking up for the felons per se. Some of them are total POS but they paid their dues and did their time. They should have an opportunity to pick up a new better path afterwards. I dispatched for a while and I had to deal with a convicted sex offender driver. I did his background and did NOT want to hire him. He raped an underage male relative, went to prison, got paroled, did it again to a different one, went back to prison and finally released to work where I was at.

I literally hated the guy! But he's still an American citizen and as long as he is, he should have rights like an any other citizen especially when you think about all the illegals that get to enjoy those benefits he's robbed of. Personally, I think he should have been executed but that's just me.

 

Update: I took 8 days of vacation time, the first of which was finalizing paper work with this new company (that was Wednesday). The next morning I was in a truck with a loaded reefer (tipped the scales at 79k and some change) and following another driver 1700 miles across the country. By Saturday evening we had delivered our loads (15 hours ahead of schedule) and parted ways, I continued on to get a washout and a short while later loaded at another shipper. I had houred out of drive time for the day as I pulled into the shipper so I overnighted in their yard after loading. Sunday and Monday (today) I have been completely solo and doing well. Tomorrow I will make it to the receiver over 24 hours ahead of schedule. I will be honest that I have never done OTR before this, but have a fair bit of local and regional experience, and that first couple of days was rough. Especially big city traffic (Des Moines, Iowa) during evening rush hour. But all in all I'm liking it so far.

 

Des Moines, big city traffic? You’re going to encounter much worse lol