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Welcome to the forum Levi! You've come to the right place to get information. Best of luck to you as you venture out and research your options!

 

Which you are about to find out are very limited....Felonies and no experience are going to be tough to overcome in the current economic environment.

 

That will all depend on whether you can find someone willing to take on training you and overlooking the criminal past.


It's a tall order to say the least!

 

Sorry , but that has been asked dozens of times here with no takers . If an O/O wanted to run team he'd already have somebody in the truck and it would be somebody he knew and trusted .
O.K. , Lavendar trucker is the one exception .

 

What is it about trucking that draws so many felons, parolees, ex-offenders, etc like moths to a flame?
It's that nobody else will hire these people except trucking companies.
Why?
Because the turnover rates are so staggering in this biz even with the true US unemployment rate hovering around 20%.
You newbies would do well to take heed.
Many of these neer-do'-wells will be sleeping next to you one truck over in the truckstop...or all alone at a deserted rest area on some dark night.
Look at someone the wrong way and "diss" them...you may end up getting shanked with a sharpened screwdriver.

And to think this was once a respectable middle-class profession back in the day....what a shame!!!!!!!!

 

I am not sure that it's changed that much, in fact it has improved in many ways.

 

Please list all the ways it improved .

 

Comment from Senator Peter Defazio directed to Chris Lofgren , CEO of Schneider National

http://www.heavydutytrucking.com/2006/10/016a0610.asp