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Hello Truckers!! It's been awhile since the last time I was here, everything is different. Well did the trucking thing for about two weeks at Werner and decided this wasn't for me. So I take my butt back to the Fire Dept. and decided to go back to school to finish up my graduate degree. But here is the problem for a friend of my. One night back in February we out late heading back in. We got pull over by a Barney Fife in a small town in MISS and of course we had been drinking and to make it short my friend got a DUI charge so went and got a lawyer hoping to get out of this. Its been over five month this has been over his head, so Monday his high price lawyer told him that it doesn't look good for him to beat the charge. My buddy is down in the dumps over this,when this haven't he was suppose to leave for Swift the very next day. So my question is their any companys out their that will give him a chances with this charge or conviction that is coming, I told him don't think anyone will hire him now I think it a five year period before he could be hire again. I just feel so bad for him and his family because trucking is something he really wanted to do. Is their anyone on here with a same situation some advice please.

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Your Friend is out of luck. Any Carrier that would hire him is not worth
working for.
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Got to Ditto what Mike said. Your friend in pretty much S.O.L. for 5 to 10 years with a DUI conviction.
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I know I have gone down this path before, but we all know that a DUI will kill our chances of getting a good job driving a truck, yet a CDL holder will go out, get drunk and drive. I know I’m beating a dead horse, but if you want to be truck driver: don’t drink and drive.
Swift will do a drug screen during the orientation… anyway…
Your friend might see if the lawyer can plead him down to a non DUI. I don’t know if that will help, though. I do not know what the risk is of a pled down DUI will show up as a DUI that was pled down on his MVR.
-JHappy Dwellers Society
Company Driver Division

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Seriously, this guy sounds like the last person I'd do anything that would help him become a professional driver. Tell him to give it up and get a job close to home. By the time his insurance bill comes, he won't be able to afford it.
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Of course?
He must not have wanted to do it very badly, to jeopardize himself like he did. I'm sorry, but you'll probably not find much sympathy for someone like that here. If you want to be a trucker, you can pretty well forget about having a relationship with booze.
Sorry. He blew it.
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You must not have ever seen Hoss' pics! In more than one he's got a fistful of the brothers Jim and Jack!
Of course Hoss realizes that there's a time and a place for drinking, and behind the wheel of ANY vehicle isn't one of 'em. Noone has to quit enjoying a drink now and then to become a trucker. You just need to know that it's best left for hometime.
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Thanks all that replied I pretty much thought that he was done for. Just had to make sure, before I gave up. I have so much respect for you truckers out their, you guys really have to love this career to be out on the road for so long. For the two weeks I was out with my trainer for Werner, I got home sick pretty quick or maybe it was because of the holidays. Anyway we were in Oklahoma somewhere and I told my trainer that day was my last. He told me he understood hated to see me give it up so quick without really giving it a chance. Told me I would have made a good truck driver because of the way I could drive and handle the truck without scratching any gears, downshifting etc. I guess I had the concept down of handle big trucks because of driving big Fire trucks. Anyway you guy be save out their

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Well, they are from Mississippi. I'll bet they were shootin' at road signs, too.