Pending Misdemeanor, Will This Stop Me From Entering School?

Moral alarmist, rabble rousers and prodders keep your ignorant comments to yourself and read my question before you chime in with your rusty 2 cents. I have a clean driving record, clean criminal background except unbeknownst to me until 2 months ago when I applied for a job in SC apparently I have a arrest warrant out for vandalism charges from over 12 years ago. I called the Sheriff in the county they confirmed that I have an active arrest warrant in that county only (small rural county) and I am open to arrest any time I step in that county. My question is more that from someone who has some trucking administration experience or second hand knowledge or is an attorney turned OTR driver.

Now this thing has never popped up for any of my other jobs that I've held with background checks etc.. but only popped up under a SC state check. I've been accepted to a Company sponsored school and I'm curious do they run those checks before you go to their school and not even accept you or would they not find out until after school before they offer you a position doing the paperwork etc? I am of course going to deal with this as soon as I can scratch the dough to hire an attorney and get this taken care of... If you have the $2,000 to hire my attorney and want to give it to me, please make all the neanderthal comments you want to.

Open to suggestions, personal experience or leading questions!

Dudley...before I address your question, I wish to address your rude post. I will assume that you have not read much on this site, or you would know that one of the rules...if we have any, is that we are ALWAYS polite to everyone. We don't flame, we don't call names, we don't cut people down. If there are moral alarmists, rabble rousers, or prodders on this site, they keep it to themselves. So don't assume that the fine people who own this site, are moderators on this site, and the many drivers, students, trainees and those waiting to go to school are anything but honest down to earth folks who enjoy trucking, and have found this site to be the best on the web, period. Your assumptions are rude, and uncalled for.

Now...if you will put your box of band aids down for a minute, I will answer your question, and yes, I have the legal knowledge to be proficient in this area. The simple fact that you have a warrant out for your arrest in ANY court will scrub you from any trucking company who runs your background check. So even if the CDL school doesn't run you, which I doubt they will, since all they want is your money, When you apply for a job driving, you will be unable to find a company that will take you.With the advent of the computer age, DOT at the scale house can run you and find the warrant. NCIC and LEDS is now connected to every law enforcement agency in the US. I am truly surprised that you have a current drivers license, since it can be revoked for an active warrant. The simple solution is to contact an attorney, and have him contact the court to see what it will cost you monetarily to "make this go away". The attorney should impress on the court that you have just become aware of this issue, and its outcome will severely effect your ability to be gainfully employed. Good luck on your situation.

I apologize for not being familiar to this site specifically and addressing my question expecting the typical response of most forums regardless of content or supposed quality of members etc.

Additional information or information already stated: I have already been accepted by a COMPANY sponsored school program( They pay for my CDL schooling upfront based upon the agreement that I give them 12 months of employment)

I have been pulled over in SC no mention of warrant.

I have been gainfully employed with this warrant. Do driving jobs do a full FBI background check or something special other than DOT that other jobs don't do?

The attorney who I talked to ^ in above post ($2000) for his handling of this whole thing and I don't even have to be present said that that locale does not use NCIC but a State run program that shows up in SC checks only.

I guess to me it would seem counter productive to any Company sponsored school to take people on then do these checks after they pass school as it would be a waste of time and manpower to them.

My assumption was half right though because I did get this gem of insight that I didn't know before I posted:

The simple fact that you have a warrant out for your arrest in ANY court will scrub from any trucking company who runs your background check. So even if the CDL school doesn't run you, which I doubt they will, since all they want is your money, When you apply for a job driving, you will be unable to find a company that will take you

If anyone has any real experience with this other than speculation I would appreciate it.

Will you be attending a company school or a private school sponsored by a company through driver solutions? The answer as t whether they run their full background check before or after you show up is different for each. Also, DONT DRIVE A TRUCK WITH A WARRANT OUT. The best that can happen is you get going a little ways into your career and then BAM!, you're career is over before it begins because you got pulled into a scale house, got arrested and abandoned a truck. If you really want to do this, find a way to clear this up. If you knew the holy administrative hell I went through to get a record clean enough to get into this industry, you would laugh at paltry little misdemeanor.

And I'm not gonna try to be be all parental and admonish you,but as Starcar has said, the attitude isn't really needed here. The folks here are genuinely helpful and all that Internet tuff guy crud is ignored or deleted. I know its hard to believe since its still the internet.

Dudley, you've got to get that warrant cleared first. It is definitely gonna come back and bite you. I know that trying to cobble together two grand is hard to do, but there may be some other ways to get it cleared up. Keep working at it - get it cleared up before you go off to a company sponsored program because I can guarantee you that you will end up stranded where ever that program is and having to figure out how to get yourself back home on your own.

I'm not preaching to ya Dudley because I have had a time period in my life where I had to struggle to get several legal problems with warrants attached to them cleared up before I could move forward in life, I understand completely. You simply just can't take a short cut around this or ignore it and hope it won't show up because they aren't using NCIC. Warrants have a way of reaching out to grab you at the most inopportune time, and it doesn't really matter how old they are.

Best of luck to ya, but I would stress that you do whatever it takes to get this cleared up first. Then you can hold your head high and proceed with all confidence. No one can enjoy their life, or especially a trucking career, if they are constantly having to look over their shoulder in fear that someone is about to get them.

Dudley, sorry I can't help contribute w/ advice, but I wanted to say I actually enjoyed your descriptive writing. Very creative. Especially the "rusty 2 cents" part

Starcar's right, this forum is definitely NOT like any of the other forums out there - read Truckers Report. Having said that, I wasn't offended by your use of language. Gave me a chuckle. Hope you get your legal issues worked out so you can move on with your career - best wishes.

Dudley, sorry I can't help contribute w/ advice, but I wanted to say I actually enjoyed your descriptive writing. Very creative. Especially the "rusty 2 cents" part

Starcar's right, this forum is definitely NOT like any of the other forums out there - read Truckers Report. Having said that, I wasn't offended by your use of language. Gave me a chuckle. Hope you get your legal issues worked out so you can move on with your career - best wishes.

Thanks for your normal, soothing, calming reply Bill. My hackles went up so fast I almost violated my advice I just gave two posts back about being a good listener/reader! I haven't seen such a rude post by a newbie since that guy who told Brett to stuff it! Wow, but once again, Bill shows how I should have reacted and I'm glad for that so I didn't look like an idiot.

Jopa

Thanks for the laughs and some good suggestions from some of you. I spent too much time worrying about this so I went ahead and called the trucking company and they to my astonishment said that it wouldn't be an issue as long as I was upfront with them and gave them full details of the pending charge. So needless to say I was relieved and it is a company school that I'll be attending. I of course will be taking care of it as soon as possible like my first few checks while with a trainer will definitely go towards the attorney in SC clearing this thing up.

And I didn't think I was being rude or would never tell anyone to "Stuff it" we're all adults here ( I think ) all I wanted was someone with experience firsthand or someone that had this happen to someone they knew.

Some people should be stunt doubles for that guy who does the "Captain Obvious" commercials.

You get some wiggle room since you're from Dalton. Everyone knows being that close to Chattanooga can get your underwear in bunch.

My underwear is twisted Scott lol.

Honestly I didn't mean to offend anyone by the opening of my 1st post on this board ever, I didn't mean it in a mean or snarky type of way, I'm a lighthearted funny fellow. No I haven't spent hardly any time on the Forum but I plan to and to be a lot less assumptive in that area on this forum. This forum and site I'm seeing more and more is to actually help people in the trucking world and people throwing around ideas... If I have any experiences or know specifically of an issue I will offer exact information not hearsay or conjecture. Sorry to be so concise