Is it getting tougher for new graduates to find work?
I keep hearing freight is slow and now the market is flooded with experienced drivers.

Check around make phone calls look up web sites there are lots of info out there best of luck to you

i here one thing but i see another being out here and all. they say trucking is gonna put so many new drivers too work over the next few years as some of the older drivers retire. so they say. but i don't see it as so much as retire as more like can't make any money so drivers are hanging it up or being forced out. with rising fuel costs and other rising costs for these companies to operate they like new drivers since they can pay two drivers the same amount of money each week as they were paying one seasoned driver to run. two drivers can run more frieght thus make more money for the company. i am seeing a difference out here on the types of drivers that run the roads with me. not better, not worse just different.

I hear commercials all the time on my Sirius radio, with companies looking for new drivers. Like honor roll said make phone call, do a web search it can't hurt..

the market is not flooded with experienced drivers - experienced drivers are on the move between companies...

but there is plenty to go around on this buffet of jobs - and every flavor and variety imaginable.

waddle up to the food bar and take your pick - very few sectors require nearly the experience that they did when I started.

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Faster than a 60 MPH bullet....

Every single large company is hiring.............. as well as thousands of small ones..........

Whether or not any particular driver is what those companies are looking for is another story............

But the jobs are there.

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Government websites state there are 1.3 -1.4 million trucking "companies" in the United States, and only 3 million CDL's (the minority is individual or team owner/operators). There are plenty of jobs to go around, in every pay scale, but you'll never start out at the top of the food chain!

The population has not quit growing, and is unlikely to stop growing in our grandchidren's lifetime. Everyone old enough to afford it wants everything everyone else has. Trucks get it all to them, including building supplies for the homes they'll live in, the furnishings for those homes, the food on the table, and the vehicles they'll drive and everything else they'll ever need!

There are pessimists in every industry. While some smaller companies might fold or sell out due to mismanagement and other problems, I see nothing but a bright future for the trucking industry in general. I retired from a 31 year career as a lead aircraft mechanic (stagnant pay, poor job security, too much liability, idiotic management) and won't go back. I need a piece of a growing industry as my new career, and I chose trucking.

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I thought you might appreciate this little bit of humor (if you haven't already seen it before....)

Science has discovered a new atomic mass: Administratium

The heaviest element known to science was recently discovered by investigators at a major U.S. research university.

The element, tentatively named administratium, has no protons or electrons and thus has an atomic number of 0.
However, it does have one neutron, 125 assistant neutrons, 75 vice neutrons and 111 assistant vice neutrons, which gives it an atomic mass of 312.

These 312 particles are held together by a force that involves the continuous exchange of meson-like particles called morons, and these morons are surrounded by vast quantities of lepton-like particles called peons.

Since it has no electrons, administratium is inert. However, it can be detected chemically as it impedes every reaction it comes in contact with.

According to the discoverers, a minute amount of administratium causes one reaction to take over four days to complete when it would have normally occurred in less than a second.

Administratium has a normal half-life of approximately three years, at which time it does not decay, but instead undergoes a reorganization in which assistant neutrons, vice neutrons and assistant vice neutrons exchange places.

Some studies have shown that the atomic mass may actually increase after each reorganization. The studies show that the sample's mass will actually increase over time, since with each reorganization some of the morons inevitably become neutrons, forming new isotopes. This characteristic of moron promotion leads some scientists to speculate that Administratium is spontaneously formed whenever morons reach a certain quantity in concentration.
This hypothetical quantity is referred to as the "Critical Morass."

Research at other laboratories indicates that administratium occurs naturally in the atmosphere. It tends to concentrate at certain points such as government agencies, large corporations, and universities. It can usually be found in the newest, best appointed, and best maintained buildings.

Scientists point out that administratium is known to be toxic at any level of concentration and can easily destroy any productive reaction where it is allowed to accumulate. Attempts are being made to determine how administratium can be controlled to prevent irreversible damage, but results to date
are not promising.

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The definition of stupidity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. — Albert Einstein