My DUI is 4 years, 3 months old. Any companies hire with training with the DUI?

I wonder if the unemployment office pays if you're fired for DUI.
I've never been on unemployment so I don't know how the rules are.

 

That was my thought as well

 

Unemployment generally only covers you if you were fired for reasons outside of your control. I suspect that if a DUI makes you ineligible for employment with a company, being fired after getting a DUI will make you ineligible for unemployment.

 

Unemployment challenges the applicant by visiting his or her employer previous by phone, in person or in the mail system. Employer has several options. My paving boss usually sent us to the unemployment office from Oct to around april each winter to sit home and collect because no paving is done in winter. Unemployment pays the 26 weeks or so and be done with it. It's a few hundred dollars a week with no contesting.

The employer might say I fired so and so for cause. And this is why I fired him and hands over the evidence to the State's unemployment office. Within that office there is a Hearing officer who makes the final determination to approve or disapprove the applicatant's request to collect unemployment because he or she has been fired for cause. Generally the decision is a big fat no from the state with the additional task to hire on to another employer (If you can...) and make a additional 3500 dollars in gross pay within 6 months before attempting to apply again for unemployment. Since many truckers who have been fired for cause are generally undesirable in the industry for months or years that pretty much gets the applicant out of the State's hair for a good long time.

One case where one employer in Indiana deliberately shorted my miles from 3000 a week routine hauling steel down to around 300 a week on purpose sitting for 6 days at a time waiting on a load. (While spending money you don't have...) until you quit. And you will eventually. Be it a week or 10 months. You will quit. In my case the State decided that the employer has failed a basic duty under SCOTUS Case Law that a employee must have work to do at a wage adequately able to maintain said employee in decent condition and ready to do work when it's time to go to work. Failing to provide that employee the miles (Me....) places the employer in a unfavorable position by the State against them and the decision is rendered against the employer. Presto 26 weeks of unemployment money for me plus back pay.

However... because my state rendered that particular decision against the employer and it's three top officers personally, the trucking company decided to remove any and all future applicants from my state seeking employment there. They simply are not going to get hired period. Because the State has demonstrated a ability to rule in favor of the worker who is being hung out to dry on purpose with no miles.

Sometimes it becomes a actual medical problem. The state brings in additional resources and people from the Dept of Labor to try and rehabilitiate that worker who can no longer drive a big truck. If that worker cannot be retrained, rebuilt to do a different job such as for example a oil rig... or something that is gainful economically contributing to the well being of the state then that worker is referred to the Social Security and is put on disability permanently. Among other programs should there be children involved in the family house hold etc.

All of the funds are usually made availible to that worker who is not able to continue doing the main work he or she trained for and did most of life. As long the reasons are valid and acceptable to the state.

It's a very complicated mess, you have many people who do go to the unemployment office after engineering a dismissal from a company because the minimum wage he or she was struggling to bring home on short hours each week will instantly for about 26 weeks become a avalanche of money. To combat the goldbricking I think is the proper term here.. the State applies a number of checks and balances to make sure that worker is not simply being lazy and sitting on the porch living large on the people's expense. Part of that would include drug testing and so on.

Some parts of the USA is rural and there is no escape unless you join the Military and ship out or perhaps managed to escape by hiring onto the Federal Govt or State Govt work and you can pretty much assure yourself a life time of prosperity. Provided you can escape a bad area that is essentially a wasteland with no good jobs anywhere. Trucking has been a pathway out for many in this kind of situation. The USA runs on trucks. Without it we would starve.

 

these days with WWW every major transport co will have there own website, go on these they will have a driver career employment section where they will stipulate the minimum driver qualifications some will say no Dui's some will say no Dui's in last 5 years so you've only got another 7 months to go anyway so just wait, if none will make an exception. If it perhaps was a low range DUI maybe you could explain that and convince a recruiter you deserve a fair go.

 

His post is over 5 years old.