Thanks everyone for the input. He has now been considering going to the college around here and just taking the driving course here. Would that help at all or at least make it a little easier to get a job since the company wouldnt have to invest as much into him?

 

If your brother pays for his own schooling he may be out the cost of tuition and still have a very hard time getting employed. Every one of the training carriers have an abundance of applications. With a misdemeanor battery he can forget about Central Refrigerated, they will not even consider him. C.R. England is more lenient regarding misdemeanors, but with jail time being served they will be very hesitant. Swift will conduct a background interview over the phone, then they will pull a complete criminal history and decide on a case by case basis.

I have not looked at any of the carriers that accept recent graduates because I can not pay for my own school. Many people on here have said that the carriers can be pickier in the economy. All of the above mentioned carriers have tightened up criteria regarding tickets, accidents, felonies and misdemeanors just over the last month. With hundreds of applicants, they can ignore all apps with criminal charges and only look at apps with no criminal history.

In my experience over the last two months of searching I did not experience any inquiry into my credit history. This is not to say that the carriers did not look at my credit, many employers do, but they never had any questions for me regarding my current credit status.

Before your brother pays for schooling, he should make sure that he can get hired by some carrier.

 

Let me tell you this. I'm squeaky clean on my driving history, criminal record, partway through a fast card application process and went to a top driving school. I can't even get a bite as to finding a job as a newbie. I paid the $4030 for driving school out of my pocket. I borrowed some of the money and sold some of my spare car parts to get the money including a spare transmission for my car. Now that I can't find a job guess which part of my car is acting up?

I got excited today when I saw a replied email from a company only to open it and read to try again in the summer.

 

Why BAD CREDIT as a criteria?

Are folks with credit issues considered a higher risk for "inventory shrinkage" problems? Or is it the "potential stress" of having bill collectors on their butts?

I'm getting ready to do a bankruptcy - mainly around my mortgage and an RV purchase that I could no longer afford to make payments on (voluntary repo before I was even late on a payment). These two debts have me at close to $900K in debt, and the only logical choice is to bankrupt them out (along with a paltry-in-comparison $50K in credit card debt).

I understand that credit reports are pulled as part of a USIS/DAC and that insurance companies usually pull them (in judging whether or not to extend a payment plan for premiums) - but was told that they really aren't given that much weight in hiring in the industry.

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When the garnishments come the drivers tend to disappear and go to work elsewhere untill they are found again. That's why we pull credit reports. Theft is a secondary concern.

 

So what carriers have you applied to?

 

It's shorter to list the ones I haven't applied to around here.

Challenger.

I've talked to a few smaller companies around here and they all say the same thing "we do not have a new driver program and only hire experienced drivers at this time".

 

So a bankruptcy with complete discharge (Chapter 7) puts me in the clear - as all my debts are DISCHARGED and all my creditors are GONE.

There's NO WAY I would even attempt to move forward into a new career with the kind of bad mojo my current debt situation causes. With the amount of debt my house has run up - a chapter 7 discharge is really my only option. I'll walk away in 90 days, clean as a newborn...

Rick

 

your credit is not really an issue for getting hired anyway, when I got hired by swift I believe my credit rating was something like 350.

 

Matcat.......my credit score sucks almost as bad as yours.....maybe they looking for potential lease/fleece/purchase people..:lol:

No probs with Swifty getting hired dur ot it though.

 

you might want to tell your brother. that he should consider a different field of work. and going to school for something other then trucking. reason. rite now. it's very hard for highly experienced drivers to get a job driving a truck. and newbie drivers. have got to be clean and perfect in order to get into trucking now.. reason: american is moving into gobalization. which means very strict security laws. alot of people are going to be left behind in america.

how employment works now in trucking.

1. highly desired drivers/cream of the top drivers

2. military people. g.i's are very highly desired due to the disaplin training. and how chain of command works.

3. college educated people. college kids are coming into the job market and taking what jobs are left. that means trucking jobs to.

4. people who have worked the same job for 15 years. and have a very clean past. and have strong work ethics.

5. experienced driver that may have had a couple of past problems like a few too many jobs. and or a couple of old misdemeanor convictions.

6. new student drivers with a clean history. and mostly stupid to the ways of trucking and money.

any one that doesn't meet the list above. will have next to no chance in driving a truck. there are not enough jobs to go around in any industry. so getting a job other then a fast food resturant. is hard....