I need help finding a job

Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by hellslords, Aug 24, 2017.

  1. hellslords

    hellslords Bobtail Member

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    i'm on disability for ADHD and i have no work history. i also have a clean class A cdl and physical card that i just got a month ago. i have filled out 20+ applications with the big trucking company's most denied me roehl discriminated against me and swift was the worst of them all. they knew beforehand i am on disability but still sent me to there 3 day orientation. i was in a class with 12 other people which they hired the other 11. on the last day i was all set to take off with my mentor then i get called in to the recruiters office. the recruiter flat out told me that they wont hire me because i'm disabled. it royally pissed me off they knew beforehand and they even asked me to bring proof of my disability. my disability is not physical and doesn't make me a nut job or a depressed mess i'm just hyper i talk allot there are tons of truckers out there with ADHD and there safe on the road. all i want is a chance to prove myself and to work my way off disability. if i wasnt serious about this venture and opportunity i wouldn't have spent allot of my saved up money to go to trucking school and buy all the live in truck supplies i needed. i even pawned allot of my stuff to do so and put myself in debt. all i want is a chance please share this with your recruiters if they are willing to hire me knowing all this please let me know.
     
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  3. White Dog

    White Dog Road Train Member

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    If you're not on medication for your cough, cough, so-called "disability", why even bring it up to companies?

    I have a buddy that has ADHD (LOOK....A SQUIRRLE!!!) and is on medication that would most likely disqualify him from getting a Medical Certification...which is required for OTR trucking. Is that YOUR case as well? And if so, how did you get a "physical card"?
     
  4. austinmike

    austinmike Road Train Member

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    Just keep the disability to yourself. I don't know if that would work or not.
     
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  5. Bakerman

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    Wow, I did not know you can get disability for ADHD.

    I'm predicting a lot of millennial's on disability.
     
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  6. hellslords

    hellslords Bobtail Member

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    AWWW you almost got me with the squirrel bit. as for the medication i'm off it right now as i only need it when i'm around other people. i'm like a Chihuahua when someone new comes in the room but alone i'm laid back and can concentrate just fine.
     
  7. hellslords

    hellslords Bobtail Member

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    the problem with that is how do i explain the no work history every application online requires you to put down at least 3 years of recent work history
     
  8. White Dog

    White Dog Road Train Member

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    LOL! Exactly.
    That's what I thought when I read "disability" as well. My buddy with diagnosed ADHD is of my generation (Generation X), and he nor his doctors, nor the Government, nor anyone else considers it a "Disability". He deals with it on HIS time, and HIS dime...and functions on a high paying Government Electrical Technician full time job, and medication (not Ritalin, but something similar).
    Tired of people over-using the 'disability' thing.
     
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  9. pattyj

    pattyj Road Train Member

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    Recruiters can't just hire you no matter who puts in a good word on your behalf.They have to go thru the proper channels.You have applied to numourous companies so it looks to me like your disqualified from the industry.But its not the end of the world find a non driving job and part-time because otherwise you'll lose your disability.
     
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  10. White Dog

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    So; you didn't work because of ADHD? Why?
     
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