New Driver. Background issues. PLEASE HELP!!!

It's ok. Rest easy.

You brought a rather important set of concerns and I hoped that you feel better at least knowing what is what. I don't believe in blowing a man down for nothing. That's not how we do it back in baltimore.

Knowledge is the light of the world and thus our freedom from simple wallowing in the mudpit of not knowing.

Take care, talk to you again sometime. See you on the flip side.

 

Just a bit of advice... you may think you want to run local in Maryland. Hell, sounds great getting home every night. Telling you now, you won't make a dime running local there if you aren't paid by the hour. The entire beltway area is a parking lot 24/7. Nothing but preventables and high blood pressure in your future.

Take any job you can get that will not only allow, but DEMAND that you run legal. Do your time, be loyal(they won't, but you will) and move on.

I thought Swift would be a starter company, and largely they have been. But I have seen many people who have worked their entire career from start to retirement here as well. Your attitude will determine your level of success.

 

Regional would be difficult at best out of maryland, consider for example Nearby Eggs of Westminster Md, you have to get out into the farmland and cross two valleys to get to it. Load up later that day your trailer is ready after all day waiting. Then overnight due to Grand Union near Albany NY by morning sunrise. You will be opening the trailer doors catching falling eggs and unload by 2Pm. Off to Seneca Lakes for Akzo Salt southbound. Next morning delivery.

Another is Shedds of what I recall as wilkens or sw avenue in Baltimore. They ship country crock butter. basically all of it is loaded in the morning into afternoon, then goes to Hunts Point by sunrise next day. Then to Cape Cod for fish, one or three large atlantic flounder, sometimes walk em one a time three miles from the docks to your parralled parked truck. Those come back into Jersey or so on.

Maryland aint much for freight. But they have a little bit, remember their handle is "Little America" because that state has everything America does in one form or another. Just not a whole lot of it.

 

The OP who started the thread "So I have a past, it's haunting me" just went through a similar experience. Can't remember the dude's handle, but look up his thread. Good luck!

 

@Jfcchvac

 

TWIC with a robbery felony is a negative.

 

might be a positive if it is over 7 years. same for hazmat requirements if i remember correctly

 

Certain robbery crimes is a flat ban from the industry. At least at one time it used to be a global ban against a driver who committed such crimes. They would be disqualified for life.

 

I read this as, he can get TWIC if he's been out of prison at least 5 years. It's in the first paragraph. Am I reading it right? Ex-cons have posted on here that they have TWIC.

INTERIM DISQUALIFYING CRIMINAL OFFENSES

Conviction for one of the following felonies is disqualifying if the applicant was convicted, pled guilty (including ‘no contest’), or found not guilty by reason of insanity within seven years of the date of the application; OR if the applicant was released from prison after conviction within five years of the date of the application.

• Unlawful possession, use, sale, manufacture, purchase, distribution, receipt, transfer, shipping, transporting, delivery, import, export of, or dealing in a firearm or other weapon. A firearm or other weapon includes, but is not limited to, firearms as defined in 18 U.S.C. 921(a)(3) or 26 U.S.C. 5 845(a), or items contained on the U.S. Munitions Import List at 27 CFR 447.21.
• Extortion.
• Dishonesty, fraud, or misrepresentation, including identity fraud and money laundering, where the money laundering is related to a crime listed in Parts A or B (except welfare fraud and passing bad checks).
• Bribery.
• Smuggling.
• Immigration violations.
• Distribution, possession w/ intent to distribute, or importation of a controlled substance.
• Arson.
• Kidnapping or hostage taking.
• Rape or aggravated sexual abuse.
• Assault with intent to kill.
• Robbery.
• Fraudulent entry into a seaport as described in 18 U.S.C. 1036, or a comparable State law.
• Violations of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act under 18 U.S.C. 1961, et seq., or a comparable state law, other than any permanently disqualifying offenses.
• Voluntary manslaughter.
• Conspiracy or attempt to commit crimes in this section.