Unemployed and unsure....

Consider yourself lucky, a company that would fire you for getting sick is no company you wanted to work for anyways. Ever consider home daily stuff like Beverage, Construction etc? You could still be home daily and they will hire people with new licenses. Plus you actually HAVE used yours so your slightly ahead of that game.

 

I've been in the same shoes bud. Got my cdl in 2011. Worked in natural gas industry for about two months. Great money, but no life. I then got hired on with Coca-Cola as a route driver. Decent paying teamsters job. They had a guy quit on the B side and stuck me on doing soda machines ( it sucked and less money). I finally had enough of that b.s. and left. Looked into food delivery. Went on a trial run for a week with a guy in the company only to realize I hated being away from my small daughters. Left that and went back to a sales position in the car business. After doing that again for a few years I realized the money is in trucking if you want a consistent paycheck. Went into the local beer industry. Lasted 8 months and ended up getting hurt on the job. (Beer delivery is a brutal business ). I have an interview set up for a LTL in my area. Although I don't know much about LTL I have seen good things posted here. Just keep looking. The local jobs are out there. Driving in winter sucks , but you get used to it. Just take your time. No load is worth yours or someone else's life. I too live in the Northeast where winter lasts 9 months it seems. My goal is to land this job,pay off bills and save up to move my family south. I'm getting too old for the brutal winters.
Good luck to you.

 

@ Dodgeman - come on out to Las Vegas. Great weather and decent priced homes. I relocated there from Tennessee a couple years ago. Summerlin or Seven Hills areas are great for families. Safe neighborhoods and good schools. Goggle those and check them out. Found mine through propertyvegas.com

 

It's amazing what a guy will do for a buck. I couldn't find a job so I started driving a log truck in the Winter. Um yeah how hard could it be. After that everything else was easy.

 

Interviewed yesterday for the LTL job. "Hired". pending the obvious background and drug screening followed by the road test. The terminal manager was an awesome guy. Very down to earth. I could have sat there for hours talking with him.

 

Good for you Dodgeman!! Be persistant and you will find the gig you want. Keep us posted about your new job.
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