I am seeking a job with a respectable company. I do not like to be associated with crooks and criminals. I believe I will make a good, honest and hard running employee. That was my first mistake, all companies have problems and I was looking for the perfect one. That being said, I have been turned down by every trucking company that I have applied to for one of two reasons. First, I live to far south and not hiring in my area. Valdosta Ga. dang near in Fl. That is understandable. Second, I have had to many jobs. That is not. I worked with the state of Ga. for 18 years. Started at 21 and retired before my 40th b day. I worked with Schneider for 6 months. Schneider was a good company but I did not make the amount of money they said I would. I went from 42000 with the state to 200.00 a week before at Schneider. I think the most I made in a week there was 500.00. I got so far behind and it ruined my credit. I quit to try and make more money and save my credit. I could not. So I went to and passed May trucking companies orientation. Three days after I left with a driver to go pick up my truck I got ill. I left and had kidney stone surgery 5 days later. Neither would hire me back. Not even May and I mailed them a doctors letter explaining my situation. Anyone had a kidney stone? Small ones hurt and mine was the size of a gum ball! Can't drive a truck for hours in that kind of pain. Anyway I went to and passed JB Hunt's orientation. Everyone in my class was sent home and told to call back everyday to be assigned a truck. I called everyday for over two weeks but was told no trucks available. So I found another job. That was with Coke. I worked there for 6 months but always wanted to drive a truck. I met a driver for Arrow trucking while delivering cokes at the Flying J off exit 2 on I 75 in Ga. and later applied with them. I went to their orientation. I left orientation for many reasons but the three biggest were; first of all they only have around 800 trucks but had 70 people in my orientation and said they had about the same every week. 10% of your work force quits each week? Second; nearly everyone in my class (not me) had some sort of criminal record. Third, the first 10 to 15 people in my class that were assigned trucks had to be sent all over the country to pick them up after the previous driver abandoned it along the road. I don't know but thats not a company for me. My last job was with Cherry trucking. I enjoyed the job but it was a company with only 4 trucks and the economy being so bad I was laid off in March after 9 months. I have a clean background and mvr. I have had 1 incident not an accident. Nobody saw this incident but I waited around and reported it to the other driver and my company. I am an honest hard working person. I have only had 4 real jobs in over 20 years. When I started researching driving I read on some message board that if you don't like a company just leave orientation. I did not read the whole thing I guess. I did not realize that after the drug test, which I always pass, that it goes on you dac report. Does anyone know of a good company that will hire me in my area with that many “jobs” although I never actually worked that many. Thank you for you time in reading this and considering my situation.

Hey bigrigjoe66,

I thought that I would help you out a little and restructure your post with some spaceing and paragraphs. It will make it a little easier to read and maybe you would get some more responses that way.

Good luck.


I am seeking a job with a respectable company. I do not like to be associated with crooks and criminals. I believe I will make a good, honest and hard running employee. That was my first mistake, all companies have problems and I was looking for the perfect one.

That being said, I have been turned down by every trucking company that I have applied to for one of two reasons. First, I live to far south and not hiring in my area. Valdosta Ga. dang near in Fl. That is understandable.

Second, I have had to many jobs. That is not. I worked with the state of Ga. for 18 years. Started at 21 and retired before my 40th b day. I worked with Schneider for 6 months. Schneider was a good company but I did not make the amount of money they said I would. I went from 42000 with the state to 200.00 a week before at Schneider. I think the most I made in a week there was 500.00. I got so far behind and it ruined my credit.

I quit to try and make more money and save my credit. I could not. So I went to and passed May trucking companies orientation. Three days after I left with a driver to go pick up my truck I got ill. I left and had kidney stone surgery 5 days later. Neither would hire me back. Not even May and I mailed them a doctors letter explaining my situation. Anyone had a kidney stone? Small ones hurt and mine was the size of a gum ball! Can't drive a truck for hours in that kind of pain.

Anyway I went to and passed JB Hunt's orientation. Everyone in my class was sent home and told to call back everyday to be assigned a truck. I called everyday for over two weeks but was told no trucks available. So I found another job. That was with Coke. I worked there for 6 months but always wanted to drive a truck.

I met a driver for Arrow trucking while delivering cokes at the Flying J off exit 2 on I 75 in Ga. and later applied with them. I went to their orientation. I left orientation for many reasons but the three biggest were; first of all they only have around 800 trucks but had 70 people in my orientation and said they had about the same every week. 10% of your work force quits each week? Second; nearly everyone in my class (not me) had some sort of criminal record. Third, the first 10 to 15 people in my class that were assigned trucks had to be sent all over the country to pick them up after the previous driver abandoned it along the road. I don't know but thats not a company for me.

My last job was with Cherry trucking. I enjoyed the job but it was a company with only 4 trucks and the economy being so bad I was laid off in March after 9 months.

I have a clean background and mvr. I have had 1 incident not an accident. Nobody saw this incident but I waited around and reported it to the other driver and my company.

I am an honest hard working person. I have only had 4 real jobs in over 20 years.

When I started researching driving I read on some message board that if you don't like a company just leave orientation. I did not read the whole thing I guess. I did not realize that after the drug test, which I always pass, that it goes on you dac report.

Does anyone know of a good company that will hire me in my area with that many “jobs” although I never actually worked that many. Thank you for you time in reading this and considering my situation.

It is not how you look at something that is important, it is how the person you are wanting to hire you looks at something that is important, and they see someone with a lot more than 4 jobs in 20 years, and those in the trucking industry is going to be more concerned with what you have done since getting your first trucking job than what you did before.

Since getting your CDL you have, at least technically, worked for:

SNI
JB Hunt
May Trucking
Cherry Trucking

and depending on Arrow Truckings hiring policy you may have been considered an employee the minute you showed up for orientation, and/or depending on when you walked out.

So you have worked for at least 4 trucking companies, and only two of those you spent any length of time at.

The economy sucks, there are still trucking companies closing or reducing their work force left and right leaving a lot of very skilled drivers looking for work, many who have employment histories that says I will likely stick around longer than a few days or weeks.