Is there anyone who'll hire me with three accidents on my record that are a year old?

Sounds like the op doesnt know how to back. He needs to go back into training and learn how to properly back. Even if he manages to get hired elsewhere I can almost guarantee he will hit something again.

Sounds like he had a crappy trainer who just used him to drive straight. Werner should have put him back in training after the 1st incident.

When I first started my trainer did that to me, I got lucky and somehow passed the road test to get released after training. I had no concept on how to back, my cdl school was literally two days and I got my cdl on the 3rd day, didnt even have to go to the dmv to take a road test. Six months later I ended up at a new company where the trainer took the time to teach me to back.

You cant just back a tlr and hope for the best, you need to know exactly where everything is. Some places, even warehouses you go to you will have literally an inch or two clearance from a pole or something else.

A brain dead monkey can be a truck driver but backing is one time an actual "skill" is required to do this job

 

Like some other driver said, get out and look. Don't be in a hurry. If it means you need to get out and look 13 times and takes 20 minutes to back up, so be it. I've had the back into places in Chicago, blind side, block traffic, and have had people yelling at me. All the stress will go away once you finished your load knowing you didn't hit anything.

 

Well... incidents mean lost money. I once delivered Roofing material for the VA clinic at Sayre NY (*I hope the #### roof is still on the building...) anyhow the foreman told me to go into the parking lot. I said nope aint happening. Forward spread axle will destroy his curbing that was just poured at the entrance.

After some yelling and manly posturing, I said fine stuck that #### spread axle flat into that cursed parking lot. CRUSHED 20 feet worth of green curbing that was just made but not yet cured. More yelling backed by what did I say? No, it will be destroyed. over and over.

600 dollars damage. 1000 in total to redo those curbs. I hope they etched my name into it. I would.

People don't listen. Not to drivahs they don't

That accident was reported to recruiters and to people inside about 3 future trucking companies for about 9 months to 18 months in total. Once they got the story, they understood. Google earth came around later on and it became pretty easy to illustrate the situation. (two lane highway with center turn lane.)

You say you don't make enough to fix the car. You are trucking, no need for that car now. Put away what you can. In about a month you should have whatever that engine computer code demands to be fixed. I myself just put in 90 dollars for a rotor set for a random misfire on my v8 and am fixing to swap out dead lead acid battery, about 150 for a good sealed unit and another 300 in further work required by the truck to get it tip top. (Coils etc.) Most of it is being done under my shade tree.

Your sleep cycle to go to deep REM and return to light is actually between 3 to 4 hours. Even if you had one hour nap with absolutely determination not to get out of that bunk for a hour for anything short of second coming, it will still benefit you. Your body is a machine with many wonderful abilities to make fast repairs on the briefest of sleeps. A good long sleep is best but you nap where you can, when you can and as fast as you can.

If you got troubles, don't let them run you down. Keep on trucking.

 

Well, I thought I'd give you another update. I'm thinking of giving up on the transportation industry. I spent a week and a half training to drive school buses. After parallel-parking perfectly time and time again, I thought I actually had a shot at this, but then came reality to ruin my dreams again...

"Your driving's good, but we don't think you can handle a fully-loaded school bus." "The children screaming might distract you..." "We're afraid we can't continue your training..." That was my last chance to get a job in this industry and now it's gone. I'm guessing this is the kind of treatment I should expect from having three incidents on my record. They were probably only keeping me until they found someone else with a clean record. Six thousand dollars were wasted so I could get fired and rejected left and right from every transportation job I come into contact with. I later tried Schneider, but they said, "those incidents won't be a problem, but since Werner fired you for a safety-related reason, we can't bring you aboard," which I think is total ########! I've NEVER had a warehouse tell me, "because of the REASON a previous employer fired you, you don't get the job." I don't know why I'm stressing myself out so much and trying so hard to get into such a screwed-up industry. You work for three months, then you're out of the job for three years! THAT'S TWELVE TIMES AS LONG AS YOU SPENT EMPLOYED THAT YOU ARE SPENDING UNEMPLOYED! This whole system is just STUPID! Well, if I'm gonna spend nearly two years unemployed, I might as well go to a trade school and actually learn a useful trade that can earn me a promising career. I'm thinking either welding or electrician...

 

Sorry it didn't work out for you, I think your right go and learn welding or electrical you'll be better off for it.

 

Why are so many welders and electricians changing careers to trucking? Dozens of them post on here.

 

So, TransAm and Carolina Cargo turned you down?

 

TransAm said I'd need a refresher course and I'm a little worried about Carolina Cargo because of some of the reviews I read saying they've been driving for over a werk and haven't gotten paid. I mean, I want a job, but I also wanna get paid for said job...

 

Depends on if you really want to be a trucker or not. How many drivers at Carolina Cargo haven't been paid in a week? Did they turn in the paperwork in time for that pay period? Some lazy drivers sit on the paperwork, then don't submit it in time for that pay period, then blame the company. Many drivers don't tell what they did, only what they want you to think.
Many of us that try to help drivers hear stuff all the time on here that's only partially true. We find out we wasted lots of time. Try to help someone find a job, then after 50 posts, it's "Uh, I need to be home every day to care for my gold fish, and that's not an option. I called all those companies you guys suggested, and none of them will promise me I can be home by 4pm every day to feed my gold fish. Guess I'll go to school and be a computer programmer."
If you really want to be a trucker, get started!