Comments By Dave S.

I did contact Werner since I had applied with them back in January and I was still on file they said to get my CDL restored and they can still bring me in on the training program but I didn't mention anything about my accident. I told them I would call them when when I get my CDL restored and I assume at that point they will ask me If I had any tickets or accidents and I will have to tell them then? I'm over not making big money I just want to get started I'm already 43 years old and I know I'm not getting any younger here. One other issue I have is that I do take blood pressure medication and I worry about getting my medication refilled while on the road since I will be gone for atleast a month at the beginning and I can only get 30 day refills at a time.

I have made some stupid decisions that I fear will prevent me from getting a truck driving job. A little over a year ago I went to school to get my CDL A license but as you know alotta companies are reluctant to take on a driver without experience. I made several phone calls and did find some companies that would but they were going to pay me very little plus I had to go over the road for nearly two months. Needless to say I decided to keep looking for a better deal and I never really found one so here I am a year or so later with no job. To make things worse my CDL was downgraded because my medical expired which I assume isn't a big deal because I was told once I retake my medical my CDL will be restored. But now I made a bad situation even worse because I needed money and started driving a box truck (non CDL) with the intention of only working there temporarily to save enough money and restore my CDL then bite the bullet and take the low paying job and eventually get my pay increases. I assumed even with no experience driving a box truck it would be easy since I did drive tractor trailers but I was wrong. As I was driving down a narrow street there were a few cars double parked and instead of simply stopping until someone moved I just kept going because I though I had enough room and ended up sideswiping two parked cars. Nobody was hurt but now that clean driving record that I worked so hard to keep is now gone. I fear that this extremely stupid mistake I made will now prevent me from getting any type of truck driving job because even If I had to wait a few years to get my license clean again who is going to touch someone with a CDL license going on 3 or 4 years but never found a job all that time. I really hope that this admittedly stupid mistake will not stop me from doing something that I have always wanted to do.