Profile For Robert B.

Hello TruckingTruth Forum, I'm Robert.

I'm almost 28 and in January, I decided that I wanted to get serious about pursuing my CDL, and began looking into avenues of being able to get into school. I'm a DoorDasher and Medical Courier currently, which makes good money, however it is getting really old as a gig, and I am wanting to begin my transition into a career. I love driving and don't mind spending all day in a car or truck, I'm just getting tired of photographing every aisle of a supermarket so someone can decide what kind of candy they want, 45 minutes of bad photography for 15 dollars.

On April 5, I tapped a car in front of me and the other driver told me that we shouldn't involve the police and that my insurance should have taken care of it. My insurance deemed me at fault, and I moved on with life, a little concerned that it might affect my chances of getting into the trucking industry.

On the morning of July 4th, I asked a friend to help me transfer my three cars to a new address I would be living at; moving had cleaned out my bank account and I wasn't feeling like taking a couple Uber rides. Fresh off his graveyard shift, he fell asleep at the wheel of one of my cars and smacked a parked car. I made certain to tell my insurance he had done it, and the person he hit informed her insurance the same. I got the email today with the documents a claim was made on my insurance, but it never used the term 'you are deemed at fault'. The police didn't show up due to no one being injured.

I really don't want to wait three years from yesterday, to get my start in the industry. This has been a dream for such a time, and I need to get off the ground somehow. I am a fantastic driver and already spend 8-10 hours a day in my car, and I can keep it fixed enough to keep on working, like a bad episode of Top Gear.

Given my MVR is still clean, will one at fault accident, and another with someone crashing my car on my own policy, disqualify me from getting my CDL? I'm already too worried about what this is going to do to my premiums.

In the meantime I'm still going to keep working at this. I cleared my DOT medical exam, and I am going for my ELDT in the coming months.

I'm just losing so much sleep, over this.