Reckless driving

howdy.

20+ years ago i got a reckless driving ticket. i had forgotten all about it. haven't had much reason to think about it over the past 20+ years. so when i applied online at a trucking company and they asked if i had ever had a reckless driving ticket i said no. wasn't lying just honestly didn't remember it.

then a couple days later i remember i had the reckless driving ticket from when i was young and dumb as a box of hair. so now i'm worried. if i pony up and tell the recruiter when i talk to him maybe i won't get hired. but if i don't tell him and they find it on my record somehow i definitely won't get hired because they'll think i was trying to hide it.

what are the chances that a reckless driving ticket from over 20 years ago will show up on a background check? what are the chances that a company will choose not to hire me with a reckless driving ticket from over 20 years ago? my MVR since then has been pretty clean and has been spotless for the past 10 years.

thanks.

 

thank you gentlemen (or ladies, maybe, can't tell online always) for your responses.

the reckless driving incident occurred in a different state from my current state of residence. i went to the website for that state's dmv and did some research. major traffic violations aside from dwi and oos violations (e.g. reckless driving or driving on a suspended license) do indeed drop off after five years like magoo68 said so i am now pretty confident that it won't show up in a background search. so i will just let sleeping dogs lie when i talk to the recruiter.

 

well the problem was that in this case the time frame for this particular company is "ever". have you "ever" had a reckless driving ticket. the correct answer to that question in my case is "yes", because i have. so maybe this company will disqualify you for even one incident 20+ years ago. i have no way of knowing.

i personally would like to think that a 20+ year old reckless driving ticket would not disqualify me from a trucking job even if they knew about it. i am certainly not the same person now i was 20 years ago so why not let bygones be bygones. but if theres no way for them to find out i dont see any reason to take the risk.