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One resource for finding past traffic violations is LexisNexis. I do not know how much a subscription costs (I am quite certain they are very pricey) or if you can purchase a single report. I had a friend who had access. At my request, she looked me up and my record included my last moving violation that occurred 12+ years ago.

WARNING: Your record is likely to contain far more information than you remember or want to remember. Many insurance companies and lenders use LexisNexis to "build a profile" of you in an attempt to determine how much risk you pose to their company.

Good luck, if you attempt to go down this road.

RB

I'm confused about the worry of reporting tickets on your application to any major.

Here's the bottom line:

Reporting tickets on your application (and discussing them, if needed, in your interview) is not what a company will use to "weed you out for being dangerous".

Reporting tickets on your application (and discussing them, if needed) is a credibility check...it's a TEST...to see if you will admit you screwed up.

If you don't report something, and they find out, you won't be hired.

If you don't report something, and they find out even after they hired you...they will fire you. You WILL be fired, because you are on probation and they can fire you, without cause, while you are on probation (and you lied on your application).

Why risk that.

They don't CARE about traffic violations. What they care about is lying on your application.

When I interviewed at the majors I put down every single traffic violation I could remember. If I didn't remember the exact date I just listed the year. If I couldn't remember the exact county I was in I just listed the state. But I put down EVERY SINGLE ticket I could remember ever receiving back to high school.

And I was prepared to discuss them all if asked.

Turns out I was never asked about them in the interviews.

But I listed them all, and was prepared to discuss them all.

Again, it's a TEST. A credibility check. Will you fess up when you screw up or will you try to hide it?

Don't be the guy who tries to hide it. You won't get hired (or worse, you'll get pulled out of training and get fired). It's happened.

Good luck to all. And really, don't sweat the tickets, we all get them.

Report them all, and be ready to explain them, if asked.

Good luck!

There was a guy in my new hire class who got fired after he no-showed a day of training. When they found him, at noon, he was still in the motel bed he'd fallen into after being out drinking, late, on a Weds. night. He had been a 727 Captain at People Express when he left for Delta. Before that he had been a Marine F4 pilot.

What got him drinking that night was, earlier that day, they gave out base assignments. He wanted Boston, where his wife and kids were living in the house he'd just bought. The Assignment Guy said, "We don't need any new guys in Boston, you can go to ATL or DFW."

Well, at that time (and until 1996) we didn't get to ride on our own Jumpseats, commuting was frowned upon, but we had many smaller bases so nobody really had to commute, unless you were a new hire and they put you into ATL and your house was in BOS.

Anyway, when they did a little deeper background check on this guy, turns out he had lied on his app, where it asks if you've ever been treated for alcoholism. He had, but he put No on the app.

They fired him, and the next day they came into our class and said, "Anyone still want to go to Boston? You can go now." I guess they felt guilty about putting this guy in a bad spot, family wise.

Last I heard, he got his Capt. job back at PE.

I agree...where the heck is that boy!

Redacted post.

Since most interview questions are answered with a TMAAT format. I'll donate $100 to the Delta Pilot's Charitable Fund for the first confirmed TMAAT answer which begins:

" I was sitting on a bean bag chair, naked, eating Cheetos the other day when ..."

The point is; they didn't fire him for being drunk, or for missing class because he was hungover, they fired him because he lied on his app.

Oh ...

Well, since we are being serious ... I was joking.

Sounds like Delta made a good call and handled it diplomatically. Delta's a good employer that way.

Hope the gentleman got the help he needed.

......The Big Lebowski came on, and I COULDN'T wait for the "cash machine" scene then.............