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Your case is strange because your license has been suspended for eight years. Most companies have minimum requirements of no license suspension with in the past 3 years.

How will that be interpreted?? 2002? 2010?

There's several companies that hire and train. There's several companies that hire students that obtain training from a third party. You are just getting started.

Do a google search on NC trucking jobs.

USA is about to be took over by Celadon. I'd stay away from them.

Have you considered going to a community college? Prices are better. Training is more thorough. Gov't tuition is available and possible grants. You ain't committed to no company for a year.

Possibilities.... Swift, USXpress, CREngland, Werner and several others.

To rate them is almost impossible. All choose to train students to save money on expenses. Many take advantage of students. Training is training and how you do depends on your attitude. You have to rough it for a year before things get better.

 

All of the companies you mentioned require at least 3 years of driving history before they will train you. England required 5 years when I applied. I don't think the OP's issue was financing. He's doing the right thing by applying for different companies first before he invests into a CDL. I would wait at least 2 more years and then start applying.

 

That's a shame. Johnston County gained a bit of notoriety for one's ability to buy their way out of "little indiscretions" such as multiple DUIs. Big news when some ##### got busted over that.
I must be missing something here. How long was your suspension in 02 for? Something seems a little amiss here.

 

USA has rejected Celadon's attempt at a take over (I believe USA is private). I have not heard anything good about them from drivers, though...

Community college is definitely the way to go - especially if you can get on with a company that offers tuition reimbursement.

 

Ah. I lived in... well, I had a Garner mailing address, but I lived in Johnston County. I moved there shortly after getting back from my deployment in Iraq (this was towards the end of 04). I was also stationed at Bragg for some of my active duty time. I was on a lot of the infrastructure projects there, such as the one where the exit from I40 onto US1S/US64W was widened out. Before that, it used to be really bad for backing up into I40. I was on the project widening NC55 from Apex to Durham, and I spent some time on the stretch of I540 going from US1/Capital Blvd. to US64. Even though Barnhill and V&G got those contracts, they both subcontracted to our subsidiary company (Rea Contracting) for the asphalt work. Did some road work projects in Durham, as well, though no specific ones really jump out in my mind.
Anyhow, I moved out of there last November.

I see. He didn't pay the ticket, so an indef. suspension went into effect. Kinda wondering what his MVR is showing. Something like that... is going to put a lot of potential employers off.

 

I think most companies are going to see this as a liability issue. could be wrong though.

 

USA Truck is a public company. They did reject Celadon's request for a meeting with no intentions of selling.

As for the original question.... that's going to be a sticky situation. Before going to any CDL school and getting into a financial bind, I'd be talking to some recruiting departments and being very upfront about these charges like he has been. It's probably going to come down to direct approval from the respective Safety Departments and it would ultimately depend on what the MVR shows I would imagine.

A *very* good idea would be to pull your own copy and see exactly what's on there currently, so you'd have concrete knowledge as to what to tell a recruiter.