How many years of accidents do megas REALLY look at?

At least you’re honest.

Guy I know did online specialty musical equipment after his family brick and mortar succumbed to online sales.

Online sales weren’t feeding the family either.

Doing well with ODFL - about 5 years in now.

 

I might be wrong (but I dont think I am) Pre qualify doesnt mean anything! Just like pre qualify for mortgage, loan,credit card. That just means you meet the minimum standards to look at you more.
Companies go back 10 years, they have to that's the law. You have to show where you worked during that time.
Its not really that big of a deal. If you were unemployed at any time, you just say unemployed. They might ask if you collected, or how you survived. Just tell them you lived at home, or wife worked.

 

We used to never worry about all that before this here fancy internet stuff and Federal Databases and on down through the levels of our blessed Government whose fingers impress onto your failed and messy existence. //sarcasm.

Anyway in THOSE wonderful days Bossman stands on your papers and say that's all nice but can you drive? Get up there and let's go. Show me. Or they round up a driver and put you on the spot for a while out and back. HE will tell the Boss if you are any good. Ive gotten several jobs a year when necessary in less than a hour this way and told to show up ready to roll a while whatever night time that night or long before sunrise.

Any company looking at my past 10 years is going to see approximately a grand total of about 110,000 blessed dollars spent in fixing up everything from the last tour of driving big trucks. With more adding up this year on the insurance papers in the mail, that are increasing to about the size of a pancake these days resolving the surgery from 6 months back still in tens of thousands of dollars paid.

Wonder how they will feel if I asked them for a truck old enough for their fathers to have worked in them without computer anything. I would be happy in it. They can have their blessed record keeping in great detail. If I wanted to be a little snarky and remember who we are, I would have to say that at some point the children in our Government creating these things trying to regulate trucking will have to stop playing at it and get out of he way so the adults can put it back to what it should be and nothing more.

 

Ten years is only for commercial driving experience. Regular work history will only go back 3 years. Nobody cares that you flipped burgers 8 years ago.

 

I don't blame you. When I haul food to LA I always pay more for everything. Even my coffee costs more.

Las Vegas is not far from you and it's a good alternative to southern California. You will also probably have better trucking prospects there.

 

Stevens Transport is a good option for living in the truck. Nice trucks.
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I looked at a Stevens Craigslist AD out of curiosity and they have a tanker terminal near Lake Travis that paid pretty good, about 65k a year if I remember right. I cant remember if it was home daily or weekly, but it wasn't OTR, I know that.

 

why would a guy ever fill out it with spotty work record, when in a fraction of a second you could have been self employed? landscape company or what ever you wish.
Unless it has changed since last week, companies want 3 years work record.