one year unemployed

Unfortunately, you do not have a good track record, which makes it hard to find work anywhere. My suggestion is to go to an agent like graebel, united van lines, or even mayflower agents to get on in the warehouse. This way you can work your way back up to possibly driving local, and build your work stability back up again.

 

That is very unfortunate. The jobs are out there, you have to be aggressive at the time of interviews, sell yourself to employers. I've been laid off twice in the last 4 years and never claimed any unemployment benefits because I always found work within a week of separation.

Good luck!

 

Fighting in the workplace is a hard pill to swallow for a future mployer. Too much potential liability. Was it at the plant?

 

Actually all Coca Cola is allowed to do is give future employers the dates of employment. You might want to look at getting an attorney and filing a lawsuit against them for wrongful termination, and slandering you to future employers.

 

OTR companies want OTR experience in the last 3 years. Local counts as zilch to them.

Try the other beverage companies and maybe they will give you a chance. Budweiser Dist. is a good place to work. Even Pepsi is better than Coke. Then you can try rolloff with a garbage company or you can always crawl in a dump truck.

 

Carriers are usually limited by what they will report about former drivers. They rarely tell anything other than if a driver is rehirable or not. They may also list something about company policies. You didn't mention what the company gave for the reason you were terminated. I am referring to the "official" cause of termination. About all you can do is keep knocking on doors. It is usually best to get management involved when something like this happens.