License expired, decreased options

Duh, of course my options have decreased because my license expired. It expired a couple years ago when I went to the DMV to renew (it was 2 months from expiring on my birthday). The woman at the DMV printed my new license and gave it to me and all was ok. But she entered it in the computer as a duplicate replacement rather than a renewal. On my birthday it did expire and I had no idea. Nobody's fault really, just a mistake. But now it has drastically damaged my open opportunities with more than a couple carriers.

The rant is the fact that felonies (no offense to you guys) and DUI's (same thing here) can work for these very companies that I don't qualify to work for now. Seems so backasswards that a DMV screw up can leave me unemployed or less qualified than having a DUI or felony on my record. I have never broken the law, yet I am the one shafted. That's a jacked up system.

 

Driver's Solutions tentatively has me slated for starting school on Monday. Will be contacting Steven's in the AM, almost done filling out their app as I type this. Do many drivers stay with Stevens after their first year? That I think is the biggest clue I can use, judge a carrier by who stays longer than a year. That's sort of how I have been looking around.

Honestly just needed to vent.

Numbers can I ask who you drive for, just out of curiosity? Was your first year rough?

 

Wow that was a great post man! Thank you for the info and guidance.

 

Yes the hard copy of the license itself was not set to expire till 2012. It only expired in the computer. The judge looked long and hard at the license I handed him, he was very confused how that could have happened.

My abstract shows it expired 2 months after I went to renew it. Then 90 days after that expiration it was "suspended due to revocation", then again 6 months later "suspended for non-compliance" (because I didn't fix it - not knowing anything was even messed up). When in court I even had the receipt showing I paid for renewal not a duplicate. Why would I need a duplicate of a license about to expire when I had it in my hand?? lol Gotta love the system. I guess if I wouldn't have moved they say they sent notification, but they don't allow their notices to be forwarded I was told.

2 suspensions and I never broke the law.

 

FFE, Millis, Watkins Shepard, Swift, Stevens, Central Refrigerated, Schneider, Crete, Prime, PAM and USA Truck have all said no because the suspension. Some of the gutter companies said they could in October after looking at my abstract.

So frustrating they don't see the difference in a compliance suspension versus a suspension due to violations. It flippin' expired, it's not a DUI charge, not due to a felony, it wasn't suspended because of an accident or even a failure to appear. Yet if it were any of those issues I could get the job. The most irritating thing is the abstract clearly says the conviction was reversed by the court, right at the top! 2 points, 2 points is all that I even have on my record and I have been turned down by the worst of the worst, just makes me sick.