Local company for DUI

[wallywire]

Off duty DUI last year class "A" driver now I can't find any local work in Stockton, Ca. 95206
Endorsments: Tank, Doubbels. No Hazmat. 18 years experiance 5 years snow and Ice. Millitary veterian 12/1986 to 05/2009.

[thebaldeagle655]

Off duty DUI last year class "A" driver now I can't find any local work in Stockton, Ca. 95206
Endorsments: Tank, Doubbels. No Hazmat. 18 years experiance 5 years snow and Ice. Millitary veterian 12/1986 to 05/2009.

And I seriously doubt ( and hope) you won't find a job driving an 80,000 lb truck with a recent DUI on your record!!! I don't know of a single insurance company that is going to insure you with a DUI on your record in the past 3 years, probably 7 years at least, much less 1 year old.

[Jay B]

A quick search of YellowBook.com shows 22 McDonalds located in Stockton. Very local. Have a nice walk over to fill out your app.

[feederfred]

Try in the last 10 years....(and now, here comes the "defenders" to tell us how wrong we all are...) Especially now, with the advent of CVA 2010, the new commercial driver rating system, you are toast....

[tenn trunk monkey]

Pay no attention to most of these bozo's..Keep looking for a small local company,,you will get
driving again.good luck, everybody deserves some............rookie,,yea,,,,with 35 yrs....I don't talk,,I do..

[freebirdrfd]

Pay no attention to most of these bozo's..Keep looking for a small local company,,you will get
driving again.good luck, everybody deserves some............rookie,,yea,,,,with 35 yrs....I don't talk,,I do..

with cva2010, your gonna need more than just good luck

[Ronin]

yeah no major company is going to take that kind of risk so soon on your record. With the ecomony in the toilet, especially in cali I'm sure the companies are in a position to pick and choose. and CVA2010 will most certainly not help matters any. Here's hoping.

[homer]

[QUOTE=wallywire;472181]Off duty DUI last year

i choose the truck its one or the other
nice tall glass when im home for the night.

been reading about this 2010. the big ata member companies will make you all nice compliant automatons who totally abstain from all the pleasures of life

[jburd]

Off duty DUI last year class "A" driver now I can't find any local work in Stockton, Ca. 95206
Endorsments: Tank, Doubbels. No Hazmat. 18 years experiance 5 years snow and Ice. Millitary veterian 12/1986 to 05/2009.

Well Wally you may find local work with a very small outfit....but forget the big guys.
I had a DWI in 1983 and it still shows up on my MVR.
Werner told me that even though it is over 20 years old I would never drive for them.
With the economy like it is they can pick-n-choose the cream of the crop.
Those are the ****** recruiters words not mine.

[GMAN]

I would not give up, but it is next to impossible for a carrier to hire someone with a recent DUI, whether it was received in a personal or commercial vehicle. Insurance companies will go back 3 years. A DUI is nearly always an automatic disqualifyer. There are some carriers who will hire you after several years have passed. Most seem to want at least 5-7 years and many want a minimum of 10 years. You can check the company listings on this forum. It lists the basic requirements for most of them. It will give you an idea of what you will be facing in the near term. My guess is that you will likely need to find something else to do until that falls off your MVR. With the new 2010 rules it is anybodies guess as to what we will see. There could be some local delivery jobs, but they will still need to run you by their insurance company.

[Orangetxguy]

Is it just me....or is Tenn Trunk Monkey's avatar ....... WAY flippin COOL???

[cdswans]

Looks like Wally went off to find a board that will tell him what he wants to hear . . or maybe he's driving. Regardless, I have encouraging words for him. A SoCal local job should be no problem. Remember the I-5 tunnel crash? The LA Times quoted CHP as saying that, by the time there were enough investigators to do interviews, 9 of the truck drivers involved had quietly removed themselves from the scene* . . as in, for whatever reason, they had no business being behind the wheel of a CMV and they weren't sticking around to talk about it. Somebody hired them.

*This fact brought no further interest from the reporters, themselves or any other media, apparently. They were either illegals, unlicensed or both. If I remember correctly, there were 15 trucks involved. That's a pretty disturbing "random sampling".

[Orangetxguy]

Looks like Wally went off to find a board that will tell him what he wants to hear . . or maybe he's driving. Regardless, I have encouraging words for him. A SoCal local job should be no problem. Remember the I-5 tunnel crash? The LA Times quoted CHP as saying that, by the time there were enough investigators to do interviews, 9 of the truck drivers involved had quietly removed themselves from the scene* . . as in, for whatever reason, they had no business being behind the wheel of a CMV and they weren't sticking around to talk about it. Somebody hired them.

*This fact brought no further interest from the reporters, themselves or any other media, apparently. They were either illegals, unlicensed or both. If I remember correctly, there were 15 trucks involved. That's a pretty disturbing "random sampling".

Wasn't the driver who died in that, an "Undocumented" worker driving for a living?

[bentstrider]

Looks like Wally went off to find a board that will tell him what he wants to hear . . or maybe he's driving. Regardless, I have encouraging words for him. A SoCal local job should be no problem. Remember the I-5 tunnel crash? The LA Times quoted CHP as saying that, by the time there were enough investigators to do interviews, 9 of the truck drivers involved had quietly removed themselves from the scene* . . as in, for whatever reason, they had no business being behind the wheel of a CMV and they weren't sticking around to talk about it. Somebody hired them.

*This fact brought no further interest from the reporters, themselves or any other media, apparently. They were either illegals, unlicensed or both. If I remember correctly, there were 15 trucks involved. That's a pretty disturbing "random sampling".

With all the knuckleheadedness I witnessed around the LA-Area ship and train yards, that isn't too far from the truth.

[Phreddo]

except that, while undocumented driving may pay cashy money, it probably won't help rebuild the mvr.
then again, nothing probably will...

[jonp]

I met a guy that had a felony assault, felony drug possesion and dealing and was caught with an illegal gun. He did a couple of years in the pen and he was driving a truck for a small company. They paid him crap and treated him as such but he was glad to have any job and for someone to give him a chance. This company hired all ex-cons.
The jobs are out there but they won't be pretty.

[cdswans]

Wasn't the driver who died in that, an "Undocumented" worker driving for a living?

I went back and read a couple of the articles because I wanted to get the numbers right in my post. There were too many stories and not enough time. If memory serves and how's this for irony, I think the guy who died was legit.

I'll be in Florida for a couple days of R+R . . if the temps stay in the deep-freeze, I'll look into it a little bit more. At the time of the wreck, when I read of the missing drivers, I tried to contact the two reporters named in the story but got no response. The way the story read, CHP said what they said and left it at that. It seemed as though there wasn't even the slightest bit of curiosity on the reporters part. I did eventually talk to a clerk who said "They all died is unlikely, that would have been newsworthy as would unlicensed have been. In LA, you don't talk about undocumented."

[bikerboy]

just keep trying and you will find a job!
good luck. i don't care that you got a dui, no big deal

[feederfred]

You may not care, but I guarantee you any employer worth a damn WILL care. Why do we continue to make excuses for bad behavior ? The laws on drunk driving for commercial drivers are quite clear, there is no ambiguity. Obviously you have not had a relative killed by a drunk driver and seen how it can affect the survivors lives for the rest of THEIR lives. I have lived through the effects of a drunken driver. It destroys lives and the family left behind. I feel no pity for the OP. If he did find a driving job, then what ? He drives illegally for peanuts because he knows he can't find another job with a "real" company, thus further depressing an already depressed job market and making conditions even worse for existing drivers who have NOT been stupid enough to drive drunk. Hopefully he won't find a job driving commercially. I don't want anyone with that kind of bad judgment driving on a freeway with my kids on the same road. It's the ex-cons and other assorted low life's who keep wages depressed and working conditions atrocious working for these bottom feeder companies.

[Double R]

You may not care, but I guarantee you any employer worth a damn WILL care. Why do we continue to make excuses for bad behavior ? The laws on drunk driving for commercial drivers are quite clear, there is no ambiguity. Obviously you have not had a relative killed by a drunk driver and seen how it can affect the survivors lives for the rest of THEIR lives. I have lived through the effects of a drunken driver. It destroys lives and the family left behind. I feel no pity for the OP. If he did find a driving job, then what ? He drives illegally for peanuts because he knows he can't find another job with a "real" company, thus further depressing an already depressed job market and making conditions even worse for existing drivers who have NOT been stupid enough to drive drunk. Hopefully he won't find a job driving commercially. I don't want anyone with that kind of bad judgment driving on a freeway with my kids on the same road. It's the ex-cons and other assorted low life's who keep wages depressed and working conditions atrocious working for these bottom feeder companies.

Very weel put!