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Originally Posted by uglymutt
Littleman2 and Rokk, I do have a verifying letter of unemployment, my wife owns her own business and is self employed and works out of the house and when a recruiter calls they call her business because its the only phone I use at home, but they all said that self employment don't count
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Self employment as covered by proper documentation is no problem. I was self employed for almost 10 years.......and I never have had a single problem getting a job in this industry.
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all the time in my gaps I just stayed home and helped the wife and I never got paid,
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And that is precisely where the problem crops up. You do not have the necessary documentation to cover that "gap". Sir, that is either the case or you have a "skeleton" in your closet that you are keeping hidden.
I sold off three businesses, then literally took SIX months off while deciding what I was going to do..... Why is it that I had absolutely no problem getting hired, just by having my attorney write a letter stating that he knew I was unemployed during that period of time, and that he knew that I had not run afoul of the law, and I also went to the County Courthouse and got criminal checks run on myself that I included with the application..... I got hired, so ....... ??
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she is my wife and we share the household, these trucking companies say they want a stronger work background because I have only been employed the last few years by temp agencies that its not good enough or strong enough for them to accept me... if they would go back 20 years and see I spent 13 years solid in a Sawmill and made $1300 gross every 2 weeks and I called in sick once in 13 years then I can show them I can work solid but since they only see these temp agencies and gaps they assume I am a loser and can't keep a job, I tried to explain to them my wife OWNS her own business and supports the household but they see that as self employed and that don't count and if she can verify I was home it still don't count.....
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What your wife does or does not do....is not germain to the issue. I think what your problem is, is this: You have more than one gap in your employment history, and you cannot account for them, period. And unless you can "fill in the blanks".....you are going to continue to hit a blank wall.
If you worked for your wife, she should be able to certify that you were her employee....without that, no go. Without proof, no-one is going to hire you....even outside of trucking. Because barring your filling the gaps... it leaves the suspicion that you have a felony record and jail time, and you are trying to hide it.
Insofar as self employment.... I was an employee of my corporations, so I had W-2's to prove I worked, and I had the tax filings to go with it.
Apparently what you are failing to understand is this: No-one is going to put you in a $100,000.00 tractor, pulling a $50,000 trailer with $500,000 to $1,000,000 + valued frieght, without knowing everything that they have to know.....and this information is required by the US DOT, so its not just the companies.
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I am confused as to why one must work until the day you go off to their orientation and quit your job that day...., I am unemployed now after graduating CDL school and have not worked because I have not been hired yet, so if I go get a job and work it until I get hired its not fair to the employer that I work 2 weeks and leave..... I am going to try to get on with companies with less than 20 trucks and stay away from the BIG companies that only hire someone with a trucking job that they can quit...
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Good Luck in your job search....but do not be surprised if you run into the same wall...... they have the same requirements for information gathering as any other trucking company. Your best bet is to get your act together, get your paperwork together and do some CYA....and stop trying to lay the problem off on others.