Need To Find A Good Job, My Circumstances...

Any suggestions are welcome... These are my circumstances as I posted them in the mileage thread...
I've never done OTR and am not really interested in that now... but my options are dwindling....
Thanx... ^raVen^


Well in 19 years I have 1.75 million miles... Never been OTR... mostly home daily... maybe 100 overniters... (3 or 4) 3 night trips... (1) ticket for a seat belt... (1) non-preventable accident... (1) DOT violation for not having my recap done after midnight. I'm semi-patient... non-aggressive... very, very lucky... and unemployed. I've always averaged 450 to 550 miles a night. I'll take the night time driving any day

1.25 million miles are CDLA... 500,000 are in a 28' box truck. I became unemployed a year ago when the company I hauled for on a dedicated account went out of business... I worked there for 11 years... You might ask why I would be unemployed with this record... me too. My last 5 years was in the 28' box truck... to save money the people I worked for put us in straight trucks... I didn't care... I was still making $50,000 a yr. driving a straight job... I never thought about what would happen if the job ended...
With my record I felt golden... well surprise... employers felt I was out of a big truck too long... like I forgot.

Then when the job ended I had some surgery for bad circulation in my legs that I had been putting off for a few years... because I really had no one to do my job if I was absent. My company was in Allentown, PA... and there was 3 of us in MA... and no backup... we'd cover each other for a day or 2 if someone got sick or had an emergency... 2 of us would split the 3rd drivers run as best we could... we all did between 350 and 450 miles a run. In 11 years I missed under 10 days... so did the other drivers... not that we didn't get sick... we just worked through it.

Then after having 2 surgeries and recoup time... 4 months had passed... I also got involved in building a prototype of a product that I had thought of... It took quite a bit of research being that I'm just a truck driver... after I had done pretty much what I could with that... I began to look for a job more diligently... Previous to that if I saw something appealing I would still apply... I continually heard that I was out of a big truck too long... so I went back to the school I attended in 1994 and did a refresher.... still no luck. I'm at a loss of what to do now... My product will take some time before I can make some money there. Beware if you get out of your truck.

 

I'm in Mass. and am looking to move to CT... just to be closer to family... Martin Brower does MickyDs around here... Not Awful excited about them... you have to be on call for any shift... I worked for a lease company 12 years ago doing TGI Fridays, Applebees, etc... I thought it was pretty bust ### when I was 44 and in reasonable shape... our runs took 2 days and that's not because you did a lot of driving... the trailer was loaded stem to stern, and floor to ceiling.... just can't imagine doing that again... Thanx for your response.

 

Schneider was going to hire me and I had some important family issues come up, and I figured they wouldn't want to hear it... so I just stopped staying in touch with them... so I figure they wouldn't want to hear it now either... Thanx for your response