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Take the free training the government is offering.
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Where is your location. Easier to help you find a job if we know your location so we know the hiring area you live in.

 

Better yet, go find something else to to do.

 

Oh boy

 

In trucking you are expected to work 60 or 70 hours per week. 60 hours per week if you work a 5/6 day schedule and 70 hours per week is you work a 7/8 day schedule. If you are not able to work back to back 10-14 hour days please don't waste your time getting a CDL. Driving commercial vehicles isn't done to make driver happy. It is required to move enough freight to make customers happy enough and pay for the truck, driver, insurance, operating costs, and a profit. I hope you are serious about this work and not just not sure what else to do. 80-90% of brand new CDL drivers leave the industry long before 12 months of work is completed.

If you could do ANYTHING, ignoring the costs/time for training, and the income from doing that thing what would you want to do? Driving is a job with little respect from others, the industry is very slow right now, and the roads are more crowded than ever and parking in short supply. It is a very frustrating job. Maybe you should do it and maybe you shouldn't do it. Think about it please.

 

If you don't have much driving experience in vehicles in general, truck driving is probably not for you.

If you are worried about driving alone and need someone else holding your hand, truck driving is not for you.

If you don't want to work long and varied hours where you will get tired, or are that concerned about major cities...

Not getting fired for making mistakes in an 80,000 pound 70 foot long vehicle? I guess it depends on the mistakes and how often they happen. But with little experience in any vehicle, you may have more than one or two. Hopefully no one gets injured or killed.


You may be offered free training for a trucking school by the government, but you must ask yourself... Is this really the right thing for me at this time?

 

Ding ding ding! winner!

 

Since you have a clean slate, I recommend I.T. or medical field.

 

No fatigue, check. No big cities, check. Do you know how this would sound to an employer? Brand new to the industry, but doesn’t want to do what drivers do. It would be like kid wanting to play football but doesn’t want to practice with the team and doesn’t want to be tackled because it’s scary. Do you know what the coach would say to you? If he were being nice?

Winner.

Six back quiet.