Werner DUI exclusion policy

Why do you feel entitled?
Should they hire a felon, even if it happened 20 years ago, same sort of thing. If it was a discrimination thing, thats different.
In their app. They clearly ask, about felony, misdemeanor, mary-jane, Alcohol, dui, dwi, and suspended licenses. They don't ask how long ago, they appear to wish to know if these infractions ever happened.
As a company, maybe they don't wish to have the added risk, or the added insurance expense. Maybe they should have a rider on their insurance, hire the driver that had a issue, but make them make up the difference in insurance costs. It sucks, I understand, but thats life. We make a choice, and if its the wrong one, we have to live with it.
I have a friend that is in sort of the same boat. He is a good driver, wants to team with his wife, but she had a dui a couple 3 years ago, nobody will take the chance. He swears after that she hasn't touched anything, but no company is willing to take a chance, and with a surplus of drivers, they don't need to. Maybe things will turn around when economy picks up.

 

In other words...C-Ya!

Spoken like a true whiner...Having never gotten a DUI in my life, I don't have to explain or justify anything.
You have demonstrated poor judgment in the past. You may not do it again but there is a greater chance that you will than someone equally qualified that has never displayed the poor judgement required to aquire the DUI in the first place.

It's their business!

Yes...They should!
In my opinion if you have ever been convicted of DUI you should automaticly be disqualified from driving a commercial vehicle. That goes for alcohol and illegal drugs of any kind as well.

Good for you...But anyone that has ever dealt with addicts of any kind knows that there is ALWAYS a risk of relapse!
If you fall off of the wagon why would I as a company owner want that to happen in my truck?

YOU DRINK, YOU DRIVE...YOU LOSE!

Again you whine...In an attempt to justify your actions you try to make someone else somehow share your responsibility for your own foolish behaviour.

All people make mistakes, Some make big ones and some make small ones...You made a big one! We're all happy that you haven't done it again but most of us will pass over you to hire someone else because of it...

GROW UP AND LIVE WITH IT!

 

I have told every company about my suspensions back in '83, and '90.

You bet your bippy they check you out!!

Neither suspensions were my fault. One was a clerical error, and the other was requirements of the state. When you dropped insurance with one carrier they would report it to the state. There was no requirement to for the new carrier to say they were taking over.

Trust me they all talked to me about it!

What just hosed me with Werner was TN didn't take a 17 over ticket off my record. The judge lower it to 14 over. The state never removed the ticket. Werner thought I had a ticket that I didn't disclose.

I think I have it straightened out now. I hope they will reconsider their decision. All they can do is say no.

 

Some of us are sick and tired of watching our industry being dragged to the bottom of the barrel by losers that are unable to do anything without drugs or alcohol.

We don't have the "issue" to confront!

You are assuming that we do that? I don't use any artificial stimulants...Not even coffee.
I don't drink either...Even socially.

First of all...It would be their business if they did and those who fell into the catagory would have to deal with the rejection.
More to the point though...Driving while veteran has not killed anyone that I'm aware of, Nor has it been shown to be a real problem like alcohol.

Your analogy is deeply flawed as there is no comparrison to be made here!

I'll call B.S. on that one unles you can come up with something more than anecdotal evidence to support the claim.

It makes no sense to you because...You would probably fall into the catagory being disqualified.

That's not the point at all....

None of these have been shown to cause driving problems...But if they wanted to disqualify people based on these things that would be their business.

A perfectly good reason to disqualify a driver as it shows poor judgement with regard to operation of a vehicle!

You're really grasping at straws here to justify DUI...

YES!

Yes...Sadly, We have a generation of idiots that think that they can do this kind of thing and it should have no effect on their life later on...A generation that takes no personal responsibility for what they do. The fact is that only some people ought to be able to drive a commercial vehicle. One of the qualifiers should be that you have demonstrated decent judgment with regard to the safe operation of any vehicle that you have ever driven.

If you drink and drive or if you have ever done that and got caught...C-Ya!

The point that you are missing here in you effort to justify the unjustfiable is that there are many of us out here that never drank alcohol or took drugs and then got in a car and drove...

I'm not the same guy i was when I was 25 but even at 25 I had sense enough to know that driving after drinking was a bad idea!

I'd sincerely contend that you don't know what you're talking about!

This is the dumbest thing that I've read here in a long time...You honestly think that because we'd rather not see a person with a previous DUI (no matter how old) driving a truck that we are somehow flawed human beings...In fact that we are so flawed as to be unsafe drivers?

What is "scary" is that you obviously believe this crap!


Oh...By the way , I don't aim a semi, I drive a truck and have for many years safely so forgive me if I scoff at the feeble attempt that you have made to justify stupid behaviour and avoiding the consquences of your actions.

 

I think Silverider has been watching way to many truck driving movies!

 

MrMustard I had a copy of my "DAC" had problems with some of the things on it.I have a very common name it just happened that someone with the same name and birthdate had a rap sheet a mile long. I didn't know that PBJ means nothing when it comes to DOT regulations.(Now I know lol). I did get my DAC straightened out.

 

Ok I reread the original. You seem miffed that you cannot apply because of old DUI or you applied and they disqualified you because you didnt reveal? No matter, always put what is requested on the application and no more than they ask for.

 

Never saw this before . I see the url in your post but not the image . When I hit quote the image shows up .
But all this about not being hired by Werner then asking what if Werner rejected this or that ...who cares ?

 

Well....It is Werner after all, It's not like it's a good job that you're losing out on.

My beef is with the sense of entitlement that some of these guys have...The "I'm good regardlees of the fact that my record says otherwise you should hire me anyway" mentality.