As many as 15% of drivers (many with extensive experience) can be disqualified when applying for a trucking job. Equip yourself before the hiring process by speaking directly to recruiters. Be forthcoming about any issues that may hinder yourself and stay organized to ensure your success.
It will be to your advantage to take notes if you’re speaking to several recruiters and have a current CDL, a copy of your driving record or MVR, proof of your work history & eligibility to work in the United States at hand. Be prepared to submit to a drug test and have names and contact information for all of your former employers. Please take the time to read the full article here.
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I don’t know who you wrote this for but you hpeled a brother out.
What are the main reason for their disqualification?
Virginia WoolfSeptember 2, 2011 @ 8:44 pm@Greg: I don’t know whether you’re a troll or just pretending to be dense, but it’s clear you’re determined to force an argument about something far afield from the article we’re allegedly here commenting upon. The article doesn’t speak to the subjects you want to talk about, so you’re pushing to change the agenda. You’ve been rude, condescending and seem to lack the ability to even listen to what other people say. If you took what you claim out of David’s article, you must be one of those who looks at every ink blot and sees what you want to see.Do you understand what the word discrimination means? (Please look it up.) Every hiring decision is based on discrimination, because an employer discriminates against those who are less qualified or less intelligent or less skilled. Certain types of discrimination are considered illegal in this country, whether you or I agree with which types are illegal or not, but most things are perfectly acceptable as grounds for making reasonable hiring decisions. You claim the issue is about discrimination, but that misses the point. The question is whether it’s legal and reasonable to discriminate against truck drivers with histories of getting drunk and not being able to control it. It seems to me that’s a reasonable and proper discrimination. You’re free to disagree, but you’re missing the entire crux of the matter. You seem quite content to play the role of the fool rather than listen to what others even mean.
Dj HawcSeptember 2, 2011 @ 2:08 pmDavid,You’re absolutely right. The regulation writers seem to think every boat is like every other. I’m sure it’s much the same in many other industries. The environmental regulations are my favorite. The company I work for hauls limestone, most of which ends up in projects for the Corp of Engineers. It’s just rock. The same stuff the we drop into the river to make dikes and Levees, is the same cargo you would think is a toxic waste product from all the paperwork we fill out when we get a load. Any water discharged over the side of this vessel is cleaner than the riverwater it’s being discharged into, and still more regulations are tried to be tacked on every year. Chemical degreasers become less effective, fuel additives less productive, and for what, a fraction of a fraction of a percentage of pollutant in our exhaust? This is an industry that moves more agricultural and shipping tonnage in this country than either rail or long haul trucking. Every year our allowable waterways for commerce are shortened because “Environmental impact” leaving cities cut off and having to pay higher prices to ship product out and in. It’s crazy. Were choking off our own economic lifelines. This is the environment, (…and I only see a small sliver of it out here) that business isn’t thriving in? Is it any wonder?