Overcoming work history gaps / getting foot in the door in 2018

This sounds kinda strange...Ive always been bent towards believing that "truck companies" only "really cared" about your last 10 years of "dot driver sensitive positions " or whatever they call it.Want to see if your "hiding" some failed drug test or tickets/ wrecks etc.Its a DOT thing.Since you havent drove a CMV it seems its a "non issue". Well,accordinding to what theyre saying it is? You can go to Social Security Administration Building and get a printout( it may appear to be a small phonebook) but,anyway itll show every job (except Cash jobs) that you ever filled out w4's for...then you just fill in dates with "drew unemployment" or "worked on family farm","fixing up cars",or "chugging beer",or what have you.I m just saying Ive NEVER been analyzed that much.Usually " Megas (Swift) etc. Seem to hire as long as No DUi,felonies,thievery,dangerous driving etc. Good luck to you

 

Here's one most people haven't heard of; might have to stay in a motel during the first phase.
www.goeastwestinc.com - Swannanoa, NC
Here at East-West Inc, we realize how difficult and expensive it can be to obtain your CDL. Even after obtaining your CDL, trying to find a company who will hire you with no experience, proves to be even more difficult. That is why we developed our own training program.
Not only do we take the time to give you all the skills necessary for driving a truck, but we also compensate during the entire training process. There are no tuition costs involved. We simply ask that you sign on with our company for a year, since you are being compensated during the entire training process.
Our training program consists of two different phases. The first phase is the skill portion, which allows you to hone your shifting/backing skills before heading out on trips. You are home every night during this first phase. Our second phase has you paired with another driver (who is the lead driver), while hauling loads to various customers. During this phase, you will be asked to be on the road for 4-6 days at a time. The lead driver’s experience and advice is invaluable to our training program. Our training program has been proven to produce safe drivers, time and time again.

 

I couldn't agree more. I was self employed for about a year before driving for a living. My new company had a very hard time with me proving what I did for that year....I gave them my EIN number and multiple other docs....yes we got through it, but it was very difficult for some reason for them.

 

I had issues from trying college.

I also relate to to OP in that I wanted to be a programmer. Ithink had prior trucking experience and just managed to get into a refresher. That allowed me to claw my way out of an awful small town job market.

I recently relocated and got another job lined up down south, but still have my work history and employment gaps picked over.

 

Op, check out the oilfield threads in here. Might give you yet another option. I started with Halliburton in Hobbs, NM. Got paid while attending school and started pulling tankers right out the gate.

 

Just have a friend that owns a business say you worked there the last 11 years.
As long as it’s a real business, you’ll be good to go

 

I hope you know I am not picking on you or your comment just to be mean or with malicious intent. This was debated in these forums a month or so ago. If someone gives you a work reference in 99% or more of those cases that report goes into a drivers DQF and becomes done and done. It does not matter if it is your big brother bubba sitting in a prison cell somewhere in Nebraska that wrote it. 391.23 is clear on these investigations, I know that in that example I was deploying a bit of hyperbole to show a point. As I said in an earlier post I am in the process of trying to help a guy. Looks like he has a job but it will require him to move to Memphis. In that earlier thread I was talking about some were attempting to state that if you did not pay taxes and was working under the table it did not count. My point was and still is you were working. 392.23 does not say your work has to be legal in regard to the IRS. It just says you MUST have a history and a carrier is required to ask for this information then make an honest attempt to verify it before they hire a driver.

In your case I believe you were talking about an actual fake job just to account for time. I agree don't do that. Your better off just being honest.

 

I bought a fake job history one time. Won't go into details as to why, but it worked. Might not get away with it these days.

 

@Chinatown the thing is 391.23 is worded in such a way they almost require a carrier to hire an investigator to stay in compliance. Most carriers are not going to do this. This is what the average carrier does. They will pull DAC. Then work forward from that. If they can't get a reply from a past reported employer they just hold the application in suspense. Some HR and safety types are using Facebook and Twitter in these investigations. I'm not in a position to force my morality on anybody. I will just say this. You tell untruths during this process all I know is YOU don't want some personal injury Attorney with a hand full of discovery requests and/or subpoenas coming after you. The FMCSA can take action after the fact too.

See this is the primary point. The FMCSA don't give a dang how many burgers you flipped when you was 16. They don't care about that job you had taking out trash. They only care about those DOT jobs you had. This is because they don't want a dangerous driver that was fired just moving on to another job. This was one reason the CDL law came about. Drivers were holding a drivers license from more then one state. Because of data holding company's like Hireright it is very difficult to do this today. So getting by with a fake history is in almost all cases going to be determined by that history. While you still can use fraud to bypass 391.23 today in time where DOT related history comes into play it is going to get harder and harder.