CDL & Trucking — Read This Before You Choose a Path
A CDL can be one of the fastest ways to reach stable income after a conviction — or an expensive mistake that ends in denials, drug test failures, and locked doors.
Trucking follows different rules. Different background checks. Different ways of saying no.
This section is not here to motivate you.
It exists to show what actually gets approved, where people fail, and why — before you pay for school, quit a job, or lock yourself into the wrong niche.
Read in order. Don’t skip steps.
Most CDL failures happen because people start at step three.