Prior conviction and cdl

You're hirable by many companies.
Where is your location? We need to know the hiring area you live in. We can give you a few companies to contact and ask if they'll hire you when you graduate from cdl school.
All trucking companies do drug test. Some do hair follicle (can look back 12 mos.) and some just do urine (look back 90 days).

 

No personal experience with that, but a background check is a background check. It doesn’t matter if you pay for your own school or not, the company you apply to will be the one that makes the decision to hire you or not based on your record.

My advice would be to call the carriers you’re interested in working for and ask them now, before you sign up for school. Tell them about your record and ask if you would still be hireable. They have no interest in lying to you, since leading you on would be a waste of their time and money as well as yours. Be completely honest, because I guarantee you they will find out about it once you apply.

 

Before you start applying, why don't you go to your local courthouse or go online to their website and find out how to get your convictions expunged.

It's not that hard to do it yourself and it will help you in your future job prospects.

 

I've been with 7 different companies through the years. I dont recall a single one of them asking about misdemeanors. They all asked about felonies though. I mean, heck, a jay-walking ticket is a misdemeanor.

That's not to say that whatever company you apply to won't check your arrest record though. Just saying they probably won't ASK you on an application.

 

Your not very educated on urine test.
Your either clean or your not. There is no 90 day look back on urine.

 

OK, I'll phrase it differently; if a person has smoked pot within the last 90 days; don't take a urine test. Wait until you're clean 90 days.
If you've smoked pot within the last 90 days, you may or may not test positive. There are many unemployed drivers that didn't wait the 90 days.

 

Sometimes 90 days is not long enough ...

 

Just to be more technical that time frame really depends more on the amount and grade of what you smoke. You take a puff or 2 and stop for several weeks I doubt it will be viable in high enough amounts to cause a positive. Remember trace amounts are OK provided they do not exceed the set amount. I would look up those amounts but it is not that important. I got a guy that lives in Williamsburg hired by Crete about a months ago. Before he left for orientation I asked him about his use. He said he pulled several puffs at a party in Norfolk about a month before. I advised him to wait, he went anyway. His tests came back negative.

 

*You're* either clean or youre not... for about 90 days. lol