Want To Apply To Roehl But Have Spotty Recent Job History.
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Erin, You may want to look at Roehl jobs and see what is available in your zip code. If it’s acailable, Apply right away to their GYCDL program and see what they say. You have absolutely nothing to lose.
I’m sitting in Conley Ga. at orientation for Roehl right now l. This is my second go around with Roehl. I was unemployed for 1-1/2 years prior to starting with Roehl in 2014. Apply to as many Company Sponsored Training as possible. Being rejected will NOT affect your ability to be hired by another company.
Others will post links for you to read. Good luck with you choice
CDL:
Commercial Driver's License (CDL)
A CDL is required to drive any of the following vehicles:
- Any combination of vehicles with a gross combined weight rating (GCWR) of 26,001 or more pounds, providing the gross vehicle weight rating (GVWR) of the vehicle being towed is in excess of 10,000 pounds.
- Any single vehicle with a GVWR of 26,001 or more pounds, or any such vehicle towing another not in excess of 10,000 pounds.
- Any vehicle, regardless of size, designed to transport 16 or more persons, including the driver.
- Any vehicle required by federal regulations to be placarded while transporting hazardous materials.
Company Sponsored Training:
A Company-Sponsored Training Program is a school that is owned and operated by a trucking company.
The schooling often requires little or no money up front. Instead of paying up-front tuition you will sign an agreement to work for the company for a specified amount of time after graduation, usually around a year, at a slightly lower rate of pay in order to pay for the training.
If you choose to quit working for the company before your year is up, they will normally require you to pay back a prorated amount of money for the schooling. The amount you pay back will be comparable to what you would have paid if you went to an independently owned school.
Company-sponsored training can be an excellent way to get your career underway if you can't afford the tuition up front for private schooling.
Welcome Erin, as long as you can verify your unemployment it won't be a problem. Here is our starter pack of info to help you make the best choice for you.
- Truck Driver's Career Guide
- Brett's Book: The Raw Truth About Trucking (free online version)
- High Road CDL Training Program
- CDL Practice Tests
The High Road Training is the best free study program to help you get your permit. You cal also look here Paid CDL Training Programs Roehl is not the only company that offers company paid training. CFI is not one of the companies listed there, but they have an excellent training program. I trained with them and I'm very happy here. Good luck.
CDL:
Commercial Driver's License (CDL)
A CDL is required to drive any of the following vehicles:
- Any combination of vehicles with a gross combined weight rating (GCWR) of 26,001 or more pounds, providing the gross vehicle weight rating (GVWR) of the vehicle being towed is in excess of 10,000 pounds.
- Any single vehicle with a GVWR of 26,001 or more pounds, or any such vehicle towing another not in excess of 10,000 pounds.
- Any vehicle, regardless of size, designed to transport 16 or more persons, including the driver.
- Any vehicle required by federal regulations to be placarded while transporting hazardous materials.
Roehl was the first trucking company i applied to. No accidents, clean driving record. I was denied because i had too many jobs in the past. I would apply but keep back ups just in case
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Hello everyone,
I've been having a really rough time lately and my job history has been spotty. For a couple of years I had a stable work history, had one job for two years and worked a 2nd job for most of that time. Then after that I had another job for nearly a year. Then one for about 5 months with a month of unemployment and now I just started another one after two months of unemployment.
The last job I intended to move to Salt Lake City UT but that didn't work out and they just didn't want me back though I was still on the payroll for like a month afterwards.
I don't really have an excuse for these periods of unemployment, I didn't try as hard as I could to get any old crap job (which is really all that is here if you're not working for the government or a hospital) and I'm worried that it's going to make them not want to consider me. Everytime I apply for a job on indeed I get a Roehl ad and I've read a fair bit about them and I think it would work for me, but applying now then it blowing my chances forever.
My driving record is clear, no drugs in my system, no criminal history, I just made some dumb decisions and I feel trapped by them.
Does anyone have any advice for what I could do? I don't want to give up before I started but I could really use a bit of direction.
Thanks <3 -Erin
HOS:
Hours Of Service
HOS refers to the logbook hours of service regulations.OWI:
Operating While Intoxicated