Question About Pre-Employment Application

I am currently enrolled in a 8 week CDL class at Pearl River Community College in Mississippi. My graduation date is the first week of November.

My only issue is completing the application as far as my work history is concerned. I have no criminal or motor vehicle record , but the last 5 years of my employment is at best been sporadic. The last two years I have been in a transitional Veterans living program and have only been offered temporary short term employment. Before that I had been taking care of my elderly incapacitated Father for the previous 8 years until he passed away. During that time, I was only able to take on part-time work.

Based on this information, is my career as a truck driver futile? I have read several articles on this web site and feel as though I would become a great asset to any organization if given the chance to prove myself as a driver. I have no family commitments any longer and would like to stay out on the road as much as possible.

Can anyone give me any words of wisdom or like I stated earlier, is this going to be futile and look for another career to pursue?

Any help or information provided would be greatly appreciated.

If you can get persons to sign affidavits saying what you were doing and have them notarized, then most companies will accept that in lieu of formal work history...they don't necessarily need you to have been working, but they need to know WHAT you were doing..instead of, say..sitting in a Mexican jail for five years...

MegaDallas, don't sweat that one. My work history (Army Spouse) was atrocious but I still got hired on with a good company. Roadkill is correct. All carriers are required to verify work/unemployment history for a certain time period. It is really no big deal as long as time was not spent training in, say, Pakistan. Just be honest and jump through the hoops for the company you decide to go with and it should work out for ya.

I had a similar issue. I retired dec 2012 and haven't had a job since. Even though I am retired they wanted an affidavit of what I had been doing. No big deal. I filled out and fax'ed them their form with 2 witness's signing off. I put down the reason for not working was that I was enjoying retirement, then they told me it's a fed requirement. I apoligied for being a smart **s and the recruiter laughed and said it was fine, and definetly an honest answer.