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Alright ladies and gentlemen, I appreciate you taking the time to read and help me answer some questions.

Let's discuss my background. On October 15th 2013 (4 years 9 months ago - 18 years old) I was arrested on shoplifting charges. Along with the complete embarrassment, I am worried that I won't be able to get in the trucking career. Before you mention expongement, I must wait 5 years before I can.

Anyways, I was reading online and noticed there were felons getting jobs left and right so I thought I would test my luck and apply. I applied at several (5) Companies with paid CDL training/school and one denied me, but 2 companies (Swift and Stevens) reached out to me and offered the schooling.

I did some research on both and felt that I liked Stevens more, but that is for another topic, anyways... I spoke with a Stevens recruiter and, well I forot to mention that on all of my applications I gave as much detail as possible, and even spoke to the recruiter about my background. He said word for word "it's just a misdemeanor shoplifting charge? I can work with that." So they sent me to school. I can't stress to YOU how much I stressed to him to run everything on me (MVR and Background) before sending me to school. He placed me on hold for about 60 seconds and came back and said, "you're good to go!"

So here I am, at school freaking out. I feel that after I complete the schooling, that once I get to orientation at Stevens, when they run the background again, they're gonna let me go. I feel like the recruiter was just trying to make that commission and send me to school anyways to take a chance and hope that I get hired.

What's your thoughts on this? Do you think the recruiter actually ran all the background? Do you think if I've gotten this far, I'm solid? Or should I still be worried?

I greatly appreciate any information you can give me, and if you need any more info, please ask!

Thank you!