Life Predicament and Lost

Sign up for trucking company cdl school then you won't need a car.
Also will be provided free meals & lodging & transportation to the school.
You don't need to buy a car or rent a place to live.

 

Why trucking? Are you sure it’s something you want to do? What if you’re under contract for schooling and the job sucks? Just a couple things to think about.

If you’re sure it’s what you want to do I’d do it sooner rather than later. And I wouldn’t worry about a car or an apartment right now.

 

No offense but if you cant handle stress right now how the hell will you handle it once out here doing the job? It aint all roses out here. One of the most stressful jobs there are.

 

You're not the first and won't be the last who chose trucking to avoid homelessness. Sign up for a mega carrier cdl training program- housing and some pay. If it doesn't work out, so be it. They could try and collect, good luck to them. Can't get blood from a stone.

More concerning to me is whythe $1,000 a month from the government?

 

You can get a CDL with Schizophrenia? But a man can't smoke a joint on his time off? This industry is nothing but a clown show.

 

God I hate it, when anyone want serious answers, they take the negative with the positive otherwise you are just here here to look for a yes you can answer but this isn’t about you, it is about the safety of others.

I am not going to sugar coat anything, I am not picking on you but the opposite, I want you to really really make sure you are willing to go through all kinds of crap to drive a truck. Having important information to make informed and realistic decisions is what is needed, not bs crap about how everyone can be a driver so they can be ‘rescued’ out of a bad situation.

So read what I am posting and think about it.

I had a couple drivers who had this problem and they left because they could not handle the job. I accommodated them the best I could but it was a problem for all involved.

This is a business where if you are triggered by a comment on a forum, then … you should not be in a truck for any reason.

I would go get a job anywhere, McDonald’s, Home Depot … anywhere to build yourself up, but not trucking.

The FMCSA has specific guidelines on your condition, you have to qualify and being sensitive over simple issues will cause you to disqualify for a dot physical. And you can not cheat on it, and it will come out.

Below on the bottom of my post are those guidelines of what an examiner is looking for.

Explain, don’t bs us about it, what is toxic?

You only presented two simple problems, nothing that can’t be fixed.

seriously explain what you mean by toxic.

also while I’m at it, you have no car, so do you even have a license, where do you live and how old are you.

So go with them.

Really, that’s not how it works, this a really dangerous vocation, truck drivers account for 13% of all road fatalities, they are number one for fatalities of all industries, and we have the most litigious industry in the world.

Not all the time, the op needs to tell us what medicine they are taking, if they have ever been committed and a number of things that we as professionals can advise him/her with the truth.

the examiner without a doubt will be asking a lot of questions, they are required by regulation to ask about the condition, the treatment plan and a lot of other details that goes along with this problem. They may even want to talk to your treating doctor, and may not accept their opinion.

They can not mess around with this one and if the driver lies (which is very common), they can lose their cdl and drivers license or worse.

The insurance companies put this in a high risk category because a lot of people do not follow the treatment plan and/or do follow-ups with their doctors. Even the underwriters of ‘self insured’ carriers have been dealing with this issue and a few drivers have been let go because of it.

Back to the op, seeing this is a regulated industry, you can not hide behind medical privacy.

The guildlines are in the next post.