Will a bad work history severly effect my chances with Roehl?

You never know until you try. Would you hire you? Everyone of us wanted to quit one time or another. But you just stay with it and make the best of it. You have to suck it up and be more responsible if you want a normal life. Kind of hard to pay bills without stability.

If you don't know your past, neither do they. Maybe you can stretch out the construction part?
They have to check your employment history per DOT regulations. If they didn't, any bad CDL driver can just lie on their next job application.

 

Most companies only go back 10 years if it was a driving job, if you have never driven before they only care about the last 3 years.

 

I would think if they are non driving jobs they aren't going to care. If it were me, and let's face it I'm really smart, I would be more concerned about your past as a driver. Equipment abandon, accidents, late deliveries, company policy violations. I worked in the office there once upon a time and I've had like 16 jobs in my life and 2 recent gaps in employment where I just decided not to work and they didn't seem to care too much about that.

 

This is an industry where alot of drivers bounce around jobs for one reason or another. Many will require you don't have more than 5-6 jobs in the past 3 years which is pretty slack. I guess they want to get at least 6 months out of you to show a profit. I've bounced around many myself. Seven months seemed to be the magic number for me before I cracked, lol. It seems the older you get and the longer you been doing it, you're more adapt to sticking it out. I been with my last employer three years. There are benefits to sticking it out too. New trucks, you seemed to be valued more. If you been there awhile, most likely then you have a good dispatcher/driver relationship which is very important.

Good Luck!

 

One of Roehl's thing is "fluidness" Meaning no big laps in work, which i never understood, whats it matter if one didn't have a job for 3 months, in between jobs, without unemployment. you find ways to survive lol..

 

While roehl might be the better choice ,if they won't take you ,Werner isn't as bad as you might think.They have an excellent training program,My son started w/ them 1/3/11 and had nothing but good things to say about his trainers,both veterans w/ many years under their belts.

 

Just like the 10 year thing the work gaps are also a DOT thing. They want you to account for the entire past 10 years. Can you handle someone looking over your shoulder? Roehl is very anal about keeping track of their drivers. For a new driver it is really a big help, but for someone who is independent and experienced it can drive you nuts. In my case it got better when I went o/o and got a fm that didn't try to run my business for me.