help - felon wants to team w/ wife

Some of you people are 1) ignorant, which like stupidity, isn't a disease. 2) unsympathetic to someone else's misfortunes and short comings, and 3) being extremely counter productive. I believe that the question on the table was about where one could find a second chance company. Not, "will you people who never GOT CAUGHT making mistakes or breaking the law,( Cus let's face it... If you we're completely honest with yourself, never mind the rest of us, you made mistakes and broke some law at some point. None of us are perfect) please judge me and my family and continue this thread about how big of a scumbag u believe we are? "
So either offer the solicited advice or keep your negativity. I'd bet your probably the same kinda guys who hit my rig while I wasn't in it, and took off...
"If your not part of the solution, your just another part of the problem."

 

Its going to be very tough find anyone to hire you guys on with a felony charge that new. Your best be is going to be to find an owner operator that has a small fleet of trucks. Someone that is leased on to MCT or Panther etc... I would say Landstar but they are very strict with their hiring procedures and even though you are an owner operator you must go through Landstars hiring process. Check out the MCT website and you will find lists of a lot of their owner operators that have fleets of trucks. The one good thing you guys have your side is the fact that you are a husband/wife team. Husband/wife teams are treated like gold and often things are overlooked to hire good husband/wife teams.

Your other option would be to buy an inexpensive truck yourselves. Downside of that though is you have no experience and your insurance is going to be very expensive.

It can be done! You guys can definitely find someone to take you on its just going to be a little difficult. May not happen right away.

Keep at though. Perserverence always pays off in the long run!

 

FFE will hire people with felonies, but I don't think drug or violence related felonies are acceptable without a 5-7 year buffer zone.


Source: I work there and have met people with felonies.

Edit- contact Sandy A. in recruiting, she's very friendly and helpful as well as being sympathetic to situations like this. When I got hired onto FFE I had some serious things go down shortly before leaving for the academy. Of course it had to happen litteraly days before I left for Dallas, and on a weekend no less. I called the recruiting department, they called Sandy, at home, over the weekend, WHILE SHE WAS AT A DINNER PARTY. She got everything taken care of THAT NIGHT.

Just about the only good thing I can say about FFE is the fact that the administration that isn't truckload does a very good job.

SECOND edit- If you guys do manage to get into FFE, get on Brian P's board. He does truck load terminal to terminal line haul. I worked for him for a while till my partner fell off the truck and that ol` boy KEPT US MOVING!

 

Just wow. We all broke some sort of law? Nice assumption.


And no, I don't have any sympathy. Quite frankly I don't give a rats if you have a problem with that. The last thing I want is a suicidal driver in a 80,000 LB truck driving next to me. Get the help you need, prove to a court of law you're clean and you learned from your past and get your record expunged. Then and ONLY then does someone deserve a second chance.

 

Ignorance is the lack of knowledge of a topic or issue.. Stupidity is or was an actual measurement of a humans capacity or progression to learn Two completely different things.

Again, two different things, misfortune is something completely uncontrollable to the person in question, shortcomings could be more of the same.. getting criminally involved in known illegal recreational drug activities and getting caught is neither of these, it's called judgement, self-control.. both of which are qualities sought after by employers..

You need to face the realities that there are people out here who have never used nor wanted to use nor buckled to the peer pressure of using street drugs to fit into a peer group, fewer still who decided to get even more involved in turning their recreational drug into a professional career when under the easily understood facts that its an illegal enterprise. The moral equivalency nonsense of comparing people who may unknowingly break some weird law they've never heard of and people who willfully engage in criminal enterprise is folly and completely wrecks whatever train your trying to ride to the rescue of the professional dopers. The advice against wasting the time for someone with a good history and work record to potentially waste the time and their current career to drag along a doper and escape to the adult equivalent of joining the circus is VERY relative and just as real and MORE realistic that the canned "eventually you will find some bottom feeder company that would take a risk on this guy to let you play trucker for a while" answers.

And for the record, I've also been ran into several times while parked at truck stops and I was rear ended by a doper at high speed (managed to not kill himself barely and my damage was a spilled coffee and a bent lift gate) but he made his choice.. and watching him bleed all over himself was kind of a bummer and threw me off schedule for most of the day.. My drivers have been hit at least 5 times by drunks, three fatal head ons (to the drucks) and one high speed centerline crossing that cost us a $70,000 trailer and a mashed ford.. and the lastest (a rear ender at high speed) the drunk at least lived..

 

Ma`am,

Perhaps you've forgotten, that you're talking to truckers.
These unwashed idiots throw judgements around like cigarette butts; and just like cigarette butts you ought not to be concerned about who threw them.

 

Erm, no one has judged anyone here.

This is a safety sensitive job, and the majority of the companies out there have a zero tolerance drug policy. They don't care what your excuse is. Get caught using drugs and kiss your job goodbye. This is how the industry is, like it or not. Your husband can still work in the industry, just not as a driver.

 

Smaller companies, or a owner-operator with a couple trucks might be the way to go. Felony will always show up on DAC report. Some companies look at not only conviction date but also time served and how long he was on paper work too. Also you could check with anyone pulling like gravel or logs, maybe something local. Expunge, is not always as easy and as effective as some people say it is. The felony will only be hidden to a certain level, and then again it depends on how good the lawyer that does it is. Some states will not allow a felony to be expunge.

 

I never smoked a cigarette either... just sayin..