Interested in Becoming a Trucker (PT 2)

Isn’t that pretty much as good as a DUI? A lot of job postings I read will say x years for a DUI.

 

If you can pass a DOT physical and a drug test, some company will hire you.
No way around those two; have to pass both.

 

Someone will hire you. Most companies will only work with a DWI that's more than 5 years old (some want 7 or 10 though). To save you some time, these companies won't hire anyone with a DUI:

Eagle Express Lines
Estenson Logistics
J&R Schugel
K&B Transportation
R.E. Garrison
Raider Express
Wiley Sanders Truck Lines
United Road

The felony is a little trickier. Most companies say something like, "All convictions reviewed case-by-case.". These companies won't hire felons:

Brown Trucking Company
K&B Transportation
Martin Transportation Systems
Martin Transport
Poly Trucking, Inc.

 

That felony may qualify you for a state grant that will pay for your school. Contact your Local employment office for details. Good luck -

 

Might want to check into the expedited freight using a sprinter van or minivan .

a DUI, an at fault accident and a felony are going to make it a little difficult

not being able to leave the state is also going to add difficulty

Sounds like a local dump truck driving job might be what you’re looking for .

i certainly wouldn’t pay $3-7k for the class

your local community college should be a lot less than that and you should qualify for free schooling .
And if so you should consider some of the other classes offered , like welding or hvac , if you’re interested in those or have some skills for those .

there’s a place not far from me that builds fire trucks and they hire almost exclusively, people convicted of felonies .

I think mostly because getting a job is a requirement of most parole and probation , and he can hire them for next to nothing because no one else will.
He has people driving an hour or 90 minutes each way to work everyday for slightly over minimum wage because they can’t get a job anywhere else , freshly paroled for armed robbery or possession with intent to distribute or something .

and most places do take the actual felony into consideration .
There’s a pretty large range of them.

 

I mean no disrespect, but I'm pretty much speechless( yay) If this person operates a loaded class 8 vehicle, we're in worse shape than I thought. It may take the sites curmudgeon, me, to point this out, but several vehicle infractions, drugs, both prescription and non, plays video games of truck driving? We've truly hit the bottom of the barrel. I don't want to admonish this person too much, this IS an informational site,, but past behavior stays with you a LONG time, thanks to this wonderful machine I'm typing on, and history has shown, it rears it's ugly head, like it or not. This person may be a good person, now, but if all these past infractions are acceptable today, we're in bad shape.

 

I got my license at 17, in my trusty Studebaker Hawk, I managed to almost lose my privilege's by the time I was 18. Speeding twice, running a stop sign.
No tickets after that. Scare sxxt I was going to lose it. The point system did it's job. Immaturity was clearly manifesting itself.
Fast forward to age 22. Living in a different state, in middle 1970's when checking DL records was spotty at best. Got a chauffers' license, buy my first truck from NAVL. Only tickets I ever received after that were the common 62 mph in a 55, the national speed limit at the time. Gave them out like popcorn.

My point being, the good old days were FULL of unqualified drivers, if you consider me an un qualified driver at the time. Successful trucking career culminating in being a finalist for America's Road Team in 1999, with so many other safe driving awards I gave up counting.
So maybe I should have stayed out of the business because of a few youthful indiscretions.

 

Well, wait a minute. What you ( and I) did, PALES in comparison to this individuals shenanigans. Read the list again, we did NONE of that. Dropped out of college, property damage, driving while impaired ( that's a biggie), they'd almost be better off using a new identity. We had a vested interest in trucking, it's what most of us wanted to do, and kept our noses clean to do so. We started at the bottom, and worked our way up DUE to our good record. Oh, I was no angel, but years ago, you could have darn near killed someone, and with the proper wording, be trucking for someone else that next day. That doesn't happen today, and this persons past will dog their career for years. Starting off on the wrong foot, and somehow, that's acceptable today. Sorry, I don't like it.